Del Shannon quote: "If it's a whole show of my own, I'll do more of what I think Del Shannon is. But for shows like Disneyland, I'll just do mainly hits. That's what they want to hear. I don't want to bore people. If I wanted that much to play nothing but 12 new songs, then I should go do it in a bar somewhere for peanuts."

I eat ice cream. It's better than booze.
DEL SHANNON

I always want to run away from A to B, and then I get to B and I wanna go back to A. I think everybo...
DEL SHANNON

I usually write when I'm in a great place. When I'm depressed, I don't usually write. So I take all ...
DEL SHANNON

I'm not afraid to risk now at all. I don't have to follow, 'cause if it isn't successful, it's OK. I...
DEL SHANNON

The world is a slightly better place for having improvisation in it than it was before. There's ...
DEL CLOSE

The kind of improv that I'm particularly addicted to is the kind that... aims at creating a mome...
DEL CLOSE

It's a good thing he's not still in office. You almost feel sorry for the guy.
DEL ALI

The issues that are important to voters (in Illinois) are Democratic issues. If the Republicans want...
DEL ALI

This year could be like 1974, when Democrats picked up 44 seats.
DEL ALI

His proposals just aren't that popular.
DEL ALI

It's pretty clear he's vulnerable. He's got his work cut out for him.
DEL ALI

There's no question Blagojevich is vulnerable.
DEL ALI

I'm not saying he's going to get a pass. If the state economy is in the hole his entire term, that's...
DEL ALI

He's alienated most of the state; he's alienated most of the voters.
DEL ALI

The administration's agenda just doesn't resonate in Illinois.
DEL ALI

Missouri voters really aren't sure what's going on with the president.
DEL ALI

I really like his game. If I were to critique it, I would say that I would like to see him be a litt...
DEL HARRIS

The Company We Keep,
DEL MCCOURY

Well, I think we just disagreed on some things, ... And, you know, I do have seniority.
DEL MCCOURY

It's now a lot more efficient because it still uses the same plumbing.
DEL ROSS

Nick Diana had a little tweak in his shoulder [which] bothered him against Southern, and he went 0-7...
DEL RUITER

I didn't make the cut. Clearly, Avery didn't do his homework and check out what kind of shooter I wa...
DEL HARRIS

It's a hard pill for D.J. to swallow because that's his job – to try to block shots. He just tried...
DEL HARRIS

Ritual and ceremony are powerful bonding tools. They result in a sense of community, a feeling of un...
DEL SUGGS

You know, I used to listen to Bill Monroe on the Grand Ole Opry, ... But what got me was when my old...
DEL MCCOURY

Luckily, Lord's will, we won and we're going to Canton and they're not.
DEL RUITER

I would hate to have to prepare to play my team. At any time, and one of the five guys on the court ...
DEL RUITER

I said it all season long, we don't have many outside shooters. Therefore, we have to work it around...
DEL RUITER

It's tough when you have an X on your back. We're ranked sixth in the state and everybody's gunning ...
DEL RUITER

You can try to simulate game-like conditions in practice, but it's just not the same until you play ...
DEL RUITER

I have to give my kids credit though, they didn't give up. We tried to make a game of it in the four...
DEL RUITER

There was a lot on the line. We didn't want to talk about it, but we all knew.
DEL WORSHAM

I've been drag racing since I was 6 years old. I've not had a lot of success here and to win it when...
DEL WORSHAM

This was an amazing, amazing weekend. I'd be lying if I said that the bonus didn't add pressure. My ...
DEL WORSHAM

We knew coming in (Wauneta-Palisade) was a good ball club. It could have gone either way.
DEL SCHOENFISH

We're just happy that we are going on. It was just a matter of survival at the end.
DEL SCHOENFISH

He can only play one way and that's all out. He goes 100 percent all the time. I told him four or fi...
DEL SCHOENFISH

Anthony has played his best the past two ball games. He's really come along.
DEL SCHOENFISH

The screens on wireless devices are very, very small and the functionality that these devices suppor...
DEL ROSS

The phones themselves have evolved and our ability to detect what type of device is much more sophis...
DEL ROSS

Today, it only takes six to eight weeks and we only have to do it once. This eliminates the need to ...
DEL ROSS

She's Montana born and bred and it's going to stay that way.
DEL MORRIS

At this point, I have no desire to slaughter her. If the owner insists, I'll have to tell him to tak...
DEL MORRIS

I was totally amazed she was able to swim the river.
DEL MORRIS

Every day is different, every job is different. I've seen a lot.
DEL MCSPADDEN

We will donate to anyone you want us to. We had one apartment full of furniture ? two beds, TV, couc...
DEL MCSPADDEN

Whatever we get, we recycle it or donate it, or if we can't do that we give it to the city (dump).
DEL MCSPADDEN

Runnin' Out of Memory
DEL MCCOURY

This kind of situation is something most people don't expect, ... I know I didn't expect it back whe...
DEL MCCOURY

Everybody's trying to get folks to come to their town, and you've got to get them to look at you fir...
DEL HORTON

We're not buying some report that's going to go on the shelf and never be seen again. This is a rese...
DEL HORTON

We work for the citizens of this community, and I believe in being accountable for the taxpayer mone...
DEL HORTON

We haven't been getting the results in leads as we have in the past. What we've had has been a shotg...
DEL HORTON

In addition to the thousands of re-enactors for these events, we're looking for thousands more to fi...
DEL HORTON

Places where folks can run for the weekend, I think we're benefiting from that. We like to travel. I...
DEL HORTON

This is probably, truly, the highlight of my coaching career. I have had many, many great athletes i...
DEL HESSEL

I see a lot of potential from our younger athletes, especially on the women's side.
DEL HESSEL

This was an outstanding meet. Some of the best programs in the country were there, and we more than ...
DEL HESSEL

We have talent and great work ethic. It is very competitive within the team, which makes a good team...
DEL HESSEL

Based on talent and experience, we have two top 25 teams in the nation.
DEL HESSEL

Our front-runners are pretty good.
DEL HESSEL

College is a lot different from high school, but both of them are going to be really good.
DEL HESSEL

Danielle is a tremendous athlete and a good leader.
DEL HESSEL

You really have to be good just to get there.
DEL HESSEL

They might be the best team CSU has ever had.
DEL HESSEL

We'll find out, won't we? It has produced 60 wins. But we all know that's not the ultimate goal.
DEL HARRIS

It's a hard pill for D.J. to swallow because that's his job to try to block shots. He just tried ...
DEL HARRIS

When I had him in the Olympics in the summer of 2004, after every practice and after every game thro...
DEL HARRIS

Everybody says he didn't win a championship as a coach, but look at everybody who's in the Hall who ...
DEL HARRIS

He's close to being a volume shooter. As I see his game . . . he's terrific, don't get me wrong, but...
DEL HARRIS

I thought Chris had a good game because he had 11 assists, but sometimes Chris can get 11 assists an...
DEL HARRIS

A lot of people think when you have a long home stand that the pressure is off of you. But the truth...
DEL HARRIS

It's a big blow, no question.
DEL HARRIS

Charlie Daniels has left an indelible mark on American music ... because of his lifelong pursuit of ...
DEL BRYANT

Pattern recognition technology is the single most promising way to identify music performed on today...
DEL BRYANT

You can't escape this feeling of disintegration. The world is fragile. But you also can't le...
MICHAEL SHANNON

London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a s...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

My silver cord - the link between my body and my spirit - was extremely sensitive. It was what allow...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I had lived in that part of London that used to be called Islington since I was eight. I attended a ...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I was born in 1991, and 'Harry Potter' came out in '97, so, you know, I was really obses...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I often look at places and kind of mentally convert them to fantasy versions of themselves.
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I've never had a supernatural experience. I've been tempted to maybe have a tarot-card readi...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the ol...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but i...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I'm not going to give it the big 'I am' now that I'm a New York Times bestseller.
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sur...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I am never not thinking about stories. 'The Bone Season' is 90% of my brain - 10% is interac...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I know what I want to achieve in each book and the major points, but I don't plan right down to ...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little sto...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I always felt that sci-fi and fantasy were my thing. Bit of a geek, I'm afraid. But I like creat...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

People question what I thought of Oxford. Students used to talk about the 'Oxford bubble' be...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I am the first one to go to university in my family. I am the first writer as well. My dad is a reti...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I worry that people think you have to go to a university to be a good writer, which is categorically...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I was not really aware of the dystopian genre before I read 'The Handmaid's Tale.' Many ...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

It is a strange world, Oxford - quite claustrophobic. I was often glad I was only there for eight we...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

What I like about Oxford is how small it is; it's really more of a big town than a city.
SAMANTHA SHANNON

'The Bone Season' is violent. There's sex. My little brother keeps asking to read it, an...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune ...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I'm often daydreaming, and it's because I've always liked the idea of there being someth...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely sel...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

I have beauty, intelligence, individuality, sensuality and sexuality.
SHANNON TWEED

There's nothing routine about 'Boardwalk Empire.' It's like being in some secret soc...
MICHAEL SHANNON

Wasted time means wasted lives.
R. SHANNON

If Mother Theresa went to Atlantic City, I don't think she'd start playing Blackjack.
MICHAEL SHANNON

What a noise we'll make among the drab and dull, how we'll...wait, I want more green. I hope I did n...
SHANNON HALE

If we're mad, we're mad in large numbers, at least larger than yours.
SHANNON HALE

They finished laughing and caught their breaths, and looked at each other, and Ani thought Geric loo...
SHANNON HALE

There you go...let it all slide out. Unhappiness can't stick in a person's soul when it's slick with...
SHANNON HALE

Other people may not have had high expectations for me... but I had high expectations for myself.
SHANNON MILLER

All you are is a soul and a voice, everything else is just a tool to help you get through the day ea...
SHANNON FANCHER

I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.
SHANNON HALE

Basically, all my life I'd been told you can't do that because you're female. So I guess...
SHANNON LUCID

I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the ma...
CLAUDE SHANNON

I actually went to college with Adam Sandler. He was a dramatic actor, too!
MOLLY SHANNON

Information is the resolution of uncertainty.
CLAUDE SHANNON

She's true to herself and she's determined. She has things going against her, but she forges...
MOLLY SHANNON

I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to gradu...
SHANNON LUCID

I made a living out of being a class clown.
SHANNON HOON

It is not okay for someone you like to treat you poorly and then pretend it didn’t happen, making ...
SHANNON WEBER

Sometimes, I feel my breath coming in shorter, quicker, spastic bursts, feel my heart threaten to th...
SHANNON CELEBI

I'm not bossy - I just happen to be more capable than most everyone else.
SHANNON HALE

I'm Razo, a member of Bayern's Own," he said, stopping himself from adding "Loafing is just a hobby ...
SHANNON HALE

Mama used to say, you have to know someone a thousand days before you can glimpse her soul.
SHANNON HALE

I think it's really important to look at the big picture instead of just one competition.
SHANNON MILLER

We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.
SHANNON CELEBI

He turned away and his hands grabbed something. A tiny purple Albertosaurus, and the note she’d gi...
SHANNON MESSENGER

Any idea what the pattern is?” Dex asked
“I’m not sure.” Something felt familiar, a sha...
SHANNON MESSENGER

Sophie Foster was going home.
SHANNON MESSENGER

Fitz? What kind of name was Fitz?
SHANNON MESSENGER

The drug lulled her toward a dreamless oblivion, but she fought back—clinging to the one memory th...
SHANNON MESSENGER

She wasn’t the Black Swan’s puppet anymore.
She was broken.
All she had left was trust...
SHANNON MESSENGER

She was amazed Silveny had even let them get close enough to attach the reins. Clearly she needed to...
SHANNON MESSENGER

Permission to disregard your orders, Underqueen."
"Permission not granted. Permission categori...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

But when she turned her back to the lights, she saw that the night was so dark...She could not see t...
SHANNON HALE

It’s not like I planned it. I never woke up from some rosy dream and said, “Okay, world, today I...
SHANNON CELEBI

Everybody's constantly being destroyed and rebuilding themselves, some more drastically than oth...
MICHAEL SHANNON

Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.
SHANNON ELIZABETH

You start wanting to see a different place every day.
SHANNON HOON

It's amazing to me that they're cutting physical education programs in the school systems.
SHANNON MILLER

When you see a struggle that you may be having personally put on a big screen and in a roomful of pe...
MICHAEL SHANNON

Mountain Creek is not financially liable for the conduct of our patrons.
SHANNON MCSWEENEY

We all live in hiding. In one way or another, each of us conceals pieces of ourselves from the rest ...
MARY SHANNON

You can still be strong and be feminine.
SHANNON TWEED

It was just really, really tough getting anything when you were a female. Basically, I just took adv...
SHANNON LUCID

The persons hardest to convince that they're at the retirement age are children at bedtime.
SHANNON FIFE

I'm super, super casual. I like boxer shorts or jeans or tank tops, tennis shoes and flip flops....
SHANNON ELIZABETH

...You wanna change or hide or feel what it’s like to just be not you, if just for a night. But at...
MARY SHANNON

In our lives, every one of us draws a circle. Inside it are your people. The people you fight for, t...
MARY SHANNON

I've got a better chance of winning the Kentucky Derby on the back of a donkey than they have of win...
SHANNON SHARPE

What we're looking to do is find ways to unlock some of these economies so they get the kind of inve...
THOMAS SHANNON

She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dus...
SHANNON HALE

In 2011, I did an internship in Seven Dials, a junction in London where seven roads come together. I...
SAMANTHA SHANNON

Take care of my moonlark.
SHANNON MESSENGER

Let’s go join the Black Swan!
SHANNON MESSENGER

There’s no reason to worry.
-Keeper of the Lost Cities
SHANNON MESSENGER

Fitz's door was closed, so she knocked before going in.
"I told you, Mr. Snuggles's visiting ho...
SHANNON MESSENGER

You keep claiming you’re not mysterious, but who are you kidding?
-Keeper of the Lost Citi...
SHANNON MESSENGER

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