You want to hear about insanity? I was found running naked through the jungles in Mexico. At the Mex...
DENNIS HOPPER I had final cut, and I cut my own throat.
DENNIS HOPPER To make a documentary is one thing, to make a feature film is quite another.
DENNIS HOPPER He's simply the best, and if he wants to call acting merely a craft, then he's the greatest craftsma...
DENNIS HOPPER I had final cut, they wanted me to re-edit it, I refused,
DENNIS HOPPER I've been a Republican since Reagan. I voted for Bush and his father. I don't tell a lot of people, ...
DENNIS HOPPER In a world where the dead are returning to life, 'trouble' loses much of its meaning. ... Land of th...
DENNIS HOPPER Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independen...
DENNIS HOPPER I live in a city that is billboards. Billboards and graffiti.
DENNIS HOPPER [Ruling over everyone in the rich folks' enclave is the sinister Kaufman, amusingly played by Dennis...
DENNIS HOPPER 'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was ...
DENNIS HOPPER because the reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world...
DENNIS HOPPER People would be surprised to know that,
DENNIS HOPPER The Crow: Wicked Prayer
DENNIS HOPPER He's a smooth, cool, intelligent actor who loves to work.
DENNIS HOPPER You know, the history of California art doesn't start until about 1961, and that's when these photog...
DENNIS HOPPER If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of n...
EDWARD HOPPER The question of the value of nationality in art is perhaps unsolvable.
EDWARD HOPPER If I had the energy, I would have done it all over the county.
EDWARD HOPPER I trust Winsor and Newton and I paint directly upon it.
EDWARD HOPPER I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.
EDWARD HOPPER Well, I have a very simple method of painting.
EDWARD HOPPER It's to paint directly on the canvas without any funny business, as it were, and I use almost pu...
EDWARD HOPPER Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before...
EDWARD HOPPER I find in working always the disturbing intrusion of elements not a part of my most interested visio...
EDWARD HOPPER In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovati...
EDWARD HOPPER I have tried to present my sensations in what is the most congenial and impressive form possible to ...
EDWARD HOPPER In general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of...
EDWARD HOPPER My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impress...
EDWARD HOPPER The trend in some of the contemporary movements in art, but by no means all, seems to deny this idea...
EDWARD HOPPER No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.
EDWARD HOPPER There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result ...
EDWARD HOPPER After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance a...
EDWARD HOPPER More of me comes out when I improvise.
EDWARD HOPPER What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
EDWARD HOPPER The only real influence I've ever had was myself.
EDWARD HOPPER If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER Well, writing novels is incredibly simple: an author sits down…and writes.

Granted, mos...
CHRISTOPHER HOPPER Nobody's interested in sweetness and light.
HEDDA HOPPER Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are ...
HEDDA HOPPER There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more in...
EDWARD HOPPER A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
GRACE HOPPER If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER They recognize that the worst way to punish them is to kick them out of school.
ALLEN HOPPER If the 9th Circuit says, 'The sky is blue,' they ( the Supreme Court ) would want to review the deci...
ALLEN HOPPER The White House wants California to march in lockstep with its misguided prohibition of medical mari...
ALLEN HOPPER I am excited, and I applaud the city council for its creativity and bold decision to put the issue s...
ALLEN HOPPER Here you have police officers on the front line whose reputations have been horribly tarnished, if n...
ALLEN HOPPER I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwill...
EDWARD HOPPER If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get per...
GRACE HOPPER Well, I've always been interested in approaching a big city in a train, and I can't exactly ...
EDWARD HOPPER Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are ...
HEDDA HOPPER I can wear a hat or take it off, but either way it's a conversation piece.
HEDDA HOPPER I'm no mathematician, so I'm stuck with the graphic representations.
HUGH HOPPER I find linseed oil and white lead the most satisfactory mediums.
EDWARD HOPPER I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, '...
GRACE HOPPER Like all tools, modern technology has produced some wonderful moments in music and also some horrors...
HUGH HOPPER She looks like she combs her hair with an egg beater.
HEDDA HOPPER At one time I thought he wanted to be an actor. He had certain qualifications, including no money an...
HEDDA HOPPER Our intent is not vindictiveness. Something has to be done.
GARY HOPPER In Hollywood gratitude is Public Enemy Number One.
HEDDA HOPPER Generally, I've got to say that all sounds, musics, noises since conception are bound to have in...
HUGH HOPPER He's got a pretty even temperament. He doesn't get too upset if things aren't going his way. Even if...
EDDIE HOPPER My crew and I airlifted nearly 100 people from the roof of a building and onto a field where ambulan...
DAVID HOPPER It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
GRACE HOPPER We were a cash-strapped park before the hurricane. Now we are an incredibly cash-strapped post-Hurri...
JOHN HOPPER We hope the city defendants, especially Mayor Wilder, will use this as an opportunity to take the le...
DAVID HOPPER We are pleased to be part of this campaign as while people are good at recycling their green glass, ...
DAVID HOPPER It's rewarding to help our fellow Americans, ... The crew knows that these people don't have a home ...
DAVID HOPPER We've got to tackle better. We've got to get first downs. We can't give the ball to them on the 50-y...
DAVID HOPPER The Kiwanis does worldwide community service and our little local club decided to do our share. We s...
DAVID HOPPER A group of smaller local sponsors, racers and interested parties got together in June and decided to...
LARRY HOPPER When he makes a bogey, 75 percent of the time it's not because he hit a bad shot; it's due to three-...
EDDIE HOPPER He's got pretty long ball off the tee. He's learned to hit those short wedges in there. He's good at...
EDDIE HOPPER Of course, there are many, many musicians whose music gives me pleasure, but until I make contact wi...
HUGH HOPPER I really don't have a shopping list of musicians. You can never tell who is going to spark off that ...
HUGH HOPPER Don't know about heaven, but it's true that there are some real monster players in hell! In fact, if...
HUGH HOPPER Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, ori...
HUGH HOPPER With the Navy's presence, there will be no doubt about what the venue represents.
LARRY HOPPER Without the volunteers, World Care doesn't exist.
LISA HOPPER Fifty thousand would make a huge impact.
LISA HOPPER While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.
HENRY HOPPER We do not believe that Mike's conduct during the tournament appropriately represents the deep-seated...
RANDY HOPPER I knew if we kept it close, we had a shot. Our kids have a tremendous amount of heart. We don't quit...
TONY HOPPER At the end of about a week, I called back and said, "I need something to compare this to. Could I pl...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership. It ...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER I only know one person who was able to write a program in ink and have it run the first time. That w...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER We're flooding people with information. We need to feed it through a processor. A human must turn in...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER A ship in port is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions.
ADMIRAL GRACE HOPPER Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, "Information"; for i...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER In total desperation, I called over to the engineering building, and I said, "Please cut off a nanos...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER A ship in harbor is safe—but that is not what ships were built for.
ADMIRAL GRACE HOPPER A ship in harbor is safe—but that is not what ships were built for.
ADMIRAL GRACE HOPPER It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER You manage things; you lead people
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER If it isn't bolted down, bring it home.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER It is better to beg forgiveness, than ask permission.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER Leadership is a two-way street, loyalty up and loyalty down. Respect for one's superiors; care for o...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER I handed my passport to the immigration officer, and he looked at it and looked at me and said, "Wha...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER The most damaging phrase in the language is, "It's always been done that way".
ADMIRAL GRACE HOPPER Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, 'Information'; for in ...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER Congress did not intend the term 'navigable waters' to be given the broadest possible constitutional...
M. REED HOPPER Anywhere water flows is a tributary in their book.
M. REED HOPPER We're a bit surprised the court took this case, but we have a new court with Judge Roberts.
M. REED HOPPER We're ecstatic. He's the ultimate folk hero, standing up to the government over a matter of principl...
M. REED HOPPER Discourse has ended in America. It's all just shouting and ranting and demonization. Do you know...
FELIX DENNIS Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like....
DENNIS PRAGER What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. ...
DENNIS QUAID I've done three Broadway shows; once the curtain goes up, that's it. I mean, you prepare and...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER My first Broadway show was with Elizabeth Taylor and Maureen Stapleton. Maureen Stapleton, a legend ...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER I've had the good fortune of working with some amazing people. I mean, my first Broadway show wa...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER The thing I wonder about is where does Brian's creative spark come from? Not his subjects or any...
DENNIS WILSON Brian was the oldest, I was in the middle and Carl was the baby. I was the troublemaker. Brian got g...
DENNIS WILSON When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.
DENNIS ECKERSLEY More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.
DENNIS PRAGER One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. ...
DENNIS HASTERT In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.
DENNIS RODMAN Yes, if I had it my way I would do all the shots myself - I used to do that when I was just a camera...
DENNIS MUREN I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.
DENNIS RODMAN As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
DENNIS POTTER I directed a movie back in the '90s which had calf roping in it, and I got into it quite a bit b...
DENNIS QUAID There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burn...
FELIX DENNIS I always want to find the best burger in town.
DENNIS QUAID 'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society...
FELIX DENNIS The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.
FELIX DENNIS I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I&#...
FELIX DENNIS You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money.
FELIX DENNIS There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
FELIX DENNIS The age of celebrity editors and monstrous staffing are over.
FELIX DENNIS You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you ...
FELIX DENNIS I am a born-again atheist, so there isn't going to be a funeral. I will be buried in a linen wra...
FELIX DENNIS Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind th...
FELIX DENNIS The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.
FELIX DENNIS There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
FELIX DENNIS Making money is certainly the one addiction I cannot shake.
FELIX DENNIS America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic,...
FELIX DENNIS Nobody could like Donald Trump, surely, except his mother. No one really likes The Donald. But how c...
FELIX DENNIS Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them...
FELIX DENNIS I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive...
FELIX DENNIS It's a long, slow sunset for ink-on-paper magazines, but sunsets can produce vast sums of money.
FELIX DENNIS You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care...
FELIX DENNIS I was a really avid bowler when I was a teenager. I had about a 210-220 average. I had blisters on m...
DENNIS QUAID When I was a kid going to the movies, we'd go because Bogart was in the movie, or Cagney, or Joh...
DENNIS FARINA Technology is fine. . ., but that popular vision of the future, where you plug somebody in and leav...
DENNIS MILLER When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.
DENNIS QUAID To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working.
DENNIS WEAVER It was an awesome place to play and I made a lot of friends here.
ADAM DENNIS A few times I wanted to leave my net to move the puck up but I wasn't sure where it was coming from,...
ADAM DENNIS You can't really change anything game to game so you just try to go in relaxed.
ADAM DENNIS No, my superstition might be not having any. Come playoff time, you like to get into routines, but t...
ADAM DENNIS From the start of the year, 40 wins was a goal of mine and it just happened that 41 was the league r...
ADAM DENNIS That wasn't a friendly thing. He shot the puck down the ice at me so I fired it back.
ADAM DENNIS I didn't play very well. He's a good goalie and deserved a chance to play. I just feel like I let th...
ADAM DENNIS Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your ...
DENNIS RAINEY After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second...
DENNIS MILLER The radical right is so homophobic that they're blaming global warming on the AIDS quilt.
DENNIS MILLER The secret to success is to start from scratch and keep on scratching.
DENNIS GREEN Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting a ...
DENNIS WHOLEY There's something ugly about the flawless.
DENNIS LEHANE See, I can talk to the pretty man like a real grown up if I try hard enough.
DENNIS SHARPE Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in ...
DENNIS FRAKES Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging.
PATRICK DENNIS Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money.
DENNIS RODMAN A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.
JOHN DENNIS There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and fin...
EVERETTE DENNIS For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to ...
DENNIS FRANZ Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftis...
DENNIS ALTMAN My goal in sailing isn't to be brilliant or flashy in individual races, just to be consistent over t...
DENNIS CONNER How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society w...
DENNIS PRAGER The larger the state, the more callous it becomes... the colder its heart. It is also true that the ...
DENNIS PRAGER Liberals tend to put the onus of your success on society and conservatives on you and your family.
DENNIS PRAGER One of the great mind destroyers of college education is the belief that if it's very complex, it's ...
DENNIS PRAGER Complexity and profundity have been equated by the academic culture just as fame and significance ha...
DENNIS PRAGER My tragic view of life... leads me to have little patience with the chronic complaining I hear in mo...
DENNIS PRAGER A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, Geo...
DENNIS MILLER Any child can tell you that the sole purpose of a middle name is so he can tell when he's really in ...
DENNIS FAKES Those who believe in nothing are very, very jealous and angry at those who believe in something.
DENNIS PRAGER Given the amount of unjust suffering and unhappiness in the world, I am deeply grateful for, sometim...
DENNIS PRAGER In much of the West, the well educated have been taught to believe that they can know nothing and th...
DENNIS PRAGER Those who are compassionate when they should be tough will be tough when they should be compassionat...
DENNIS PRAGER If your religion doesn't teach you the difference between good and evil, your religion is worse than...
DENNIS PRAGER Unhappy, let alone angry, religious people provide more persuasive arguments for atheism and secular...
DENNIS PRAGER See, how these rascals use me! They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my thunder.
JOHN DENNIS Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder for someone else
DENNIS WOLFBERG Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small ...
DENNIS PRAGER I'm not getting involved in sports anymore, except on film. I'm not agile unless a camera...
DENNIS CHRISTOPHER I was so emotional. Choked up. I could hardly talk all day. I'll be cleaning out my trailer and ...
DENNIS FRANZ Successful diplomacy is an alignment of objectives and means.
DENNIS ROSS Even non-democratic allies no longer trust America. Barack Obama has alienated our most important an...
DENNIS PRAGER The fact is that, except for those very few whose wealth is overwhelmingly or entirely inherited, th...
DENNIS PRAGER