Sinatra had a lot of mood swings, but he was wonderful to my wife Barbara and to me. He made no bones about who he liked and who he loved, and he had this great charisma. When he walked into a room, it stopped. I've only seen that happen with Ronald Reagan.


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There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
DON HEROLD
We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money...
DON MARQUIS
The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
DON HEROLD
There's one thing about baldness, it's neat.
DON HEROLD
America is the world's living myth. There's no sense of wrong when you kill an American or blame Ame...
DON DELILLO
I think it's only in a crisis that Americans see other people. It has to be an American crisis, of c...
DON DELILLO
If I were a writer, how I would enjoy being told the novel is dead. How liberating to work in the ma...
DON DELILLO
Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color.
DON HIRSCHBERG
Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for ...
DON MARQUIS
Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything.
DON MARQUIS
It's easy to point when you can't heal it.
DON WALK
There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
DON HEROLD
Christian means coming from Christ. Just as a Californian comes from California and a Bostonian is s...
DON WALK
Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the...
DON MARQUIS
Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.
DON MARQUIS
Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.
DON SHULA
An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it.
DON MARQUIS
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
DON MARQUIS
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint
DON MARQUIS
Hardship makes the world obscure.
DON DELILLO
I can do whatever I want -- I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.
DON JOHNSON
A humorist is a person who feels bad, but who feels good about it.
DON HEROLD
Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Proverb Don't look back, you can never look ba...
DON HENLEY
Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity.
DON MARQUIS
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
DON MARQUIS
I don't know any other way to lead but by example.
DON SHULA
I would rather start a family than finish one.
DON MARQUIS
now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out ...
DON MARQUIS
The American Judicial System is the best appearance of justice that money can buy!
DON MASHAK
Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but b...
DON DELILLO
For every pass I caught in a game, I caught a thousand in practice.
DON HUTSON
Why resist temptation? There will always be more.
DON HEROLD
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when th...
DON DELILLO
Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun
DON HENLEY
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a...
DON BARTHELME