There are some people that probably should be in the Hall of Fame, but they're not for some reason.
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DAVE MEIER The 'Hall of Fame' says a lot that the trucks are famous and the people that drove them are famou...
DAVE MEIER When I think of greatness, I think of guys like Earl Campbell and Gale Sayers and Walter Payton, and...
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JACK PETER It's an elite group. And once you're in the Hall, you're in the Hall. Up until now, I th...
RYNE SANDBERG I sort of ride the fence on that whole steroid era issue. I don't have a definite opinion like s...
MIKE SCHMIDT That whole Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame thing - at least half the people in there don't have a pla...
BUTCH TRUCKS I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians....
STEVE MARTIN I've been urged by people forever to try and start a real Rock Hall of Fame. I've had some v...
EDDIE TRUNK In the deaf community, there are different types of people who have different philosophies. Some bel...
MARLEE MATLIN Earl Hebner should definitely be in the WWE Hall of Fame.
STONE COLD STEVE AUSTIN Actors are all different. They're not all volatile. Some are sweet, some are volatile, but what ...
RIDLEY SCOTT WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in th...
MR. T There are many people that struggle and struggle and have all the talent in the world, but for some ...
BRYAN WHITE There are some good people. But a good chunk of them will lie for no reason at all - it'll be te...
JOHN CUSACK But now all of a sudden some idiots in Taiwan start to say that they are not Chinese. Their grand pa...
ALEX CHIU I really don't feel the need to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because, at the end of the ...
ALEX LIFESON I'm not a sportswriter. I don't get to vote. I don't get the ballot in the mail, so it...
RYNE SANDBERG I'm thankful for weird people out there 'cause they're some of the most creative people.
CHANNING TATUM That was a misconception among a lot of people - that Mormons are polygamist. No, they're not. I...
TREY PARKER I don't think the mainstream media understands people of color are multidimensional. For some re...
ISSA RAE I want to be part of Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, but I don't want to be part of th...
BARRY BONDS Fame changes everything. When you're well-known, you're expected to be different. Some peopl...
MICHAEL PALIN For some reason, I think that I'm not doing enough work. People are like, 'You're on a s...
ALDIS HODGE If you can prove a guy did cheat, then I don't believe he belongs. I don't believe that ther...
BARRY LARKIN People do more important jobs than acting in film that should be recognised, but for some reason it&...
ADAM GARCIA If they had not landed there would be some reason for celebrating the fact.
MARK TWAIN Fame for fame's sake is toxic - some people want that, with no boundaries. It's unhealthy.
ANNIE LENNOX There could be a ring levee around some outside communities that are not behind the big barrier that...
BRUCE BAIRD I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never go...
NANCY SINATRA This is the Pro Football Hall of Fame, not the Life Hall of Fame.
EMMITT SMITH I know some really great actors who are pretty judgmental people, pretty critical people. But they...
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to count...
BUCK OWENS The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the ...
ALICE MUNRO People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace...
LINDA THOMPSON There are the people who read my horror novels - the first two of them - and they found them scary o...
DAVID WONG When the history of the 20th century is written, there are going to be some pretty obscure people wh...
DICK MORRIS There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'...
ABBY ELLIOTT I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mi...
NEKO CASE Here's what I'll say: some toys should be movies, and some toys should not be toys, and I...
ALEX KURTZMAN Some people think they should go to Heaven but not have to die to get there. Sorry, but that's s...
DAN GILBERT People can be a bit flagrant when they're having an affair. Most of the time, there's an ele...
ANNE-MARIE DUFF I sometimes wonder how we're short of cod. There's gonna be a load deep down that are hiding...
KARL PILKINGTON There are some things that are not the way they should be, and even the indicators that are 'best-ev...
DUANE ALEXANDER When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an e...
NANCY PELOSI Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're fu...
HAROLD RAMIS The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted.
PAULINA PORIZKOVA The irony is that we're really good at comedy in Britain, but for some reason, we make very few ...
ALICE LOWE Some people think that there aren't many Aboriginal actors around, and if there are, they're...
DEBORAH MAILMAN Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth botheri...
J. K. ROWLING Black people need some peace. White people need some peace. And we are going to have to fight. We...
FRED HAMPTON When I came to Britain I was in awe of the British press, afraid of them. But they're not as fer...
HEATHER BROOKE I told them to be disappointed in the loss, but not in themselves because they left it on the floor....
MARK VOGT People who pigeonhole us for our queerness are not people I'm interested in knowing. They're...
BEN HOPKINS The fact that some things are mysterious or that they touch on mystery isn't in some way a capit...
SIMON CONWAY MORRIS Though the customer is always right, there are some customers you do not want.
JEFFREY FRY I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about ha...
JOHN HUGHES For some reason, the military seems more afraid of gay people than they are against terrorists, but ...
GARY ACKERMAN Some people are surprised that the Republicans are waging a war on women, or that they voted against...
JANE FONDA Do we need to have 280 brands of breakfast cereal? No, probably not. But we have them for a reason -...
BILL JAMES There are Latino people in our world who believe strongly that if you are Latino you should speak th...
SELENIS LEYVA Unfortunately, 'climate' has become a dirty word - obviously in politics, but even to some d...
EVAN WILLIAMS I'm sorry for these people, but there are a lot of them here. Their families should take care of the...
HENRIETTA BROWN There are some big inventories out there. The new products that they have talked about aren't out fo...
BOB TURNER There is a feeling out there that people who didn't have flood insurance should have some penalty fo...
BARRY ERWIN We are negotiating a final lease with the owners of the building. We have some details still to work...
JAMES STARK Some of these biggest financial institutions are out there trading in commodities. They're buyin...
ELIZABETH WARREN A lot of people say the sitcom is dead. I think they're right to some extent, in that the shows ...
BEN SAVAGE The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basi...
MICKY DOLENZ Now, I don't know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Roc...
WAYLON JENNINGS Why not provoke some thought and get people talking about things? I like characters that are flawed ...
MICHAEL FASSBENDER It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspirati...
PAUL STANLEY There is a cliche that probably has some anecdotal evidence on the side that comedians are very depr...
ROBERT KLEIN People in the Hall of Fame tend to clap their hands and say, 'OK, I've done it all,' but...
JIMMY CLIFF There's some downsides to being famous, which are not even worth mentioning. But to combat the b...
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AL PAZAR What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are...
BRIAN CHESKY Monsters come in all shapes and sizes. Some of them are things people are scared of. Some of them ar...
NEIL GAIMAN Some people are just quiet - they don't need to be talking all the time and aren't extrovert...
CHIRLANE MCCRAY I support Alice Waters in her desire that there be a vegetable garden at the White House. I don'...
MARTHA STEWART We all have to go through our own spiritual process. It is very difficult. Some people are strugglin...
RICKY MARTIN We played great character football in the second half. We had some kids, who are not starters (and) ...
DOUG KAY You've got to be extremely careful, because you could be with a great team, and you could be the...
MARCUS ALLEN This is a historic day at the Hall of Fame. I hoped that someday there would be a woman in the Hall....
DALE PETROSKEY Some people look like they're lost causes, but they're not. Even if they're in a messed ...
KEITH STANFIELD There are some people who believe that these are not real stories with real people, but they actuall...
SAMANTHA BEE I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't u...
ZAC EFRON There are some people who're all doctors. Is it genetic?
AIDA TURTURRO Probably 99 percent of Nuba are subsistence farmers. They have maybe two or three cattle, a few goat...
TOM CATENA Some people aren't great with babies, or they're not great with a smaller child - it's n...
CARA BUONO Some of the people we feel sorry for feel sorry for us for thinking that they are the ones who shoul...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an olig...
FINN JONES Changes your life, getting into the Hall of Fame. For the rest of my life, I'll be known as Hall...
GEORGE KELL It's not for sure, but I'd say it's probably moving in that direction, ... Some of it's moving in th...
AL GROH They are going to be playing Shaggy and Scooby-Doo for eons and eons, and they're going to forge...
CASEY KASEM I get nervous and I was really nervous out there, but you have to be able to control your emotions o...
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I love Brian Piccolo, and I'd like all of you to love him. When you hit your knees to pray tonight, ...
GALE SAYERS I was playing in the league when Ray Guy was playing in the league. He was the best kicker I've ...
GALE SAYERS Halas didn't believe in starting rookies.
GALE SAYERS We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There ar...
GALE SAYERS Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.
GALE SAYERS I had a career that was very short, but it had a lot of thrills.
GALE SAYERS What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of t...
GALE SAYERS We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
GALE SAYERS Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Ira...
GALE SAYERS I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remem...
GALE SAYERS Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will...
GALE SAYERS There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
GALE SAYERS When you step onto that field, you cannot concede a thing.
GALE SAYERS I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.
GALE SAYERS Half these people out here who are getting autographs are getting it for somebody else -- a dealer o...
GALE SAYERS He says he won't sign anything because he knows what they're doing with the stuff, and I don't disag...
GALE SAYERS I'm 62 years old. You can't tell me that some little kid coming up to me -- he doesn't know me. Thes...
GALE SAYERS Both Ray and I are racing fans. Also, we both have the same goals and desire to succeed, to win and ...
GALE SAYERS There's no way I would have made the Hall of Fame or set any of the records I did by myself. No matt...
GALE SAYERS Transfer of title has been completed, the Island corridor is now Island-owned and it's connecting co...
JUDITH SAYERS Tomorrow, you might see a passing shower around the midday.
MATT SAYERS It's all about possibilities. Now that we're re-connected, it also gives us an incentive to build co...
JUDITH SAYERS There is a great deal of potential, but there are also a few challenges for any potential operator. ...
JUDITH SAYERS There are still treaty issues that First Nations will have to negotiate on the rail corridor, but th...
JUDITH SAYERS The next five years will be very exciting. We have a lot of vibrant people in the neighborhood wanti...
JENNIFER SAYERS There's been a fabulous resurgence of people fixing up homes. The house values are steadily increasi...
JENNIFER SAYERS My first manager, Suzanne DeWalt, saw a play I was in. She was invited by the director Joan Scheckel...
GALE HAROLD I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
GALE HAROLD You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally availa...
GALE HAROLD You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
GALE HAROLD Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. ...
GALE HAROLD My interests are not really with television, per se.
GALE HAROLD I'm more interested in the quality of the work than its medium.
GALE HAROLD My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we h...
GALE GORDON I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
GALE GORDON My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
GALE GORDON The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy ...
GALE GORDON I don't know a better preparation for life than a love of poetry and a good digestion.
ZONA GALE The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the...
GALE NORTON I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out th...
GALE GORDON I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution c...
GALE NORTON These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the fi...
GALE NORTON It's what we work out over the next few weeks.
BRENDON GALE But, having said that, there is a strong awareness of the players that we will have the situation re...
BRENDON GALE It exceeds community expectations and it displays we are committed in the fight against illicit drug...
BRENDON GALE Most people would understand that there should be recognition of the value the players do bring to t...
BRENDON GALE It is such a departure, free agency is a significant shift, so that will be a discussion for another...
BRENDON GALE feel free to call... as questions arise.
GALE NORTON communication, consultation, and cooperation, in the name of conservation.
GALE NORTON without leaving a footprint.
GALE NORTON I share your commitment to protect the environment of Florida's coastline as well as the entire east...
GALE NORTON a very reasonable compromise between those who support further development ... to meet our growing e...
GALE NORTON This new partnership is an example of how the public sector and private industry can work together t...
GALE NORTON We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in dema...
GALE NORTON Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regul...
GALE NORTON His intention has been to take responsibility for what he's done. He knows he has taken somebody's l...
RICHARD GALE Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds ...
GALE NORTON The general mood was disrespectful and scornful.
WILLIAM GALE They're happier because they have one bill instead of two or three.
GALE GIVEN Instant tickets are impulse purchase items. They don't go on a shopping list.
DAVID GALE The decision to go from an individual state lotto game to a multistate game is a natural evolution. ...
DAVID GALE We are very excited to be working hand in hand with Midway to translate this innovative game into a...
DAVID GALE We were tracking this project really early on, and it really was about the material itself for us. I...
DAVID GALE Lotteries are like any other business that are selling a product -- they have to advertise.
DAVID GALE The key really is distribution.
DAVID GALE Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is ...
GALE NORTON The cliff just caved away like a glacier. It just sheared off that old wall. There's this gigantic s...
JIM GALE My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
GALE NORTON The data suggests that ongoing, intense earthquake activity has weakened the rock dome, increasing t...
GALE NORTON If there was any visage of bipartisanship left in this governor, I think he's just about put a nail ...
GALE KAUFMAN I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to fig...
GALE NORTON This is based on a presumption that they actually know what was going on in the Capitol, and they do...
GALE KAUFMAN The two hurricanes coming so close together really illustrate how much of our offshore production wa...
GALE NORTON It's got a big tax cut built into it. That's not a footnote, but a front and center important issue.
WILLIAM GALE Julia is the girl next door who's a bit of an outsider and just a little funky. The idea was to keep...
GREGORY GALE He may or may not get out someday. If he does it won't be for at least 20 years.
RICHARD GALE The world consists almost exclusively of people who are one sort and who behave like another sort
ZONA GALE Although I've never pressed sexual harassment charges against him, I guess a lot of it comes from th...
TRISTAN GALE This January thaw lasted way too long.
JODY GALE Blake is coming off an injury and we are bringing him back slowly. He is coming back very well.
GALE GROSS The red ink in the market is no more than expected.
ERIC GALE I've had high regard for a great many actors. I started out as a serious actor. I didn't start out a...
GALE GORDON My father was a vaudevillian, and my mother was principal boy in pantomime among other things such a...
GALE GORDON Lucille didn't care about messing herself up. A lot of stars of her stature wouldn't do physical com...
GALE GORDON I've never been bored in my life working. A lot of people get bored after five minutes. They want to...
GALE GORDON Lucille would never allow anyone to double for her. If she had to learn how to ice skate, she'd ice ...
GALE GORDON I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
GALE GORDON I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, ...
GALE GORDON We are very excited to be working hand in hand with Midway to translate this innovative game into an...
DAVID GALE I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out th...
GALE GORDON My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have ...
GALE GORDON Radio wasn't so bad because you didn't have to memorize the lines. But you did have to do everything...
GALE GORDON The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy ...
GALE GORDON When I'd tell people that I wanted $150 they almost fainted. They thought I was an upstart and an eg...
GALE GORDON The opposition is hoping to put a tougher challenge this time around.
BRUCE GALE I don't really think the business sector is really concerned one way or another. Nothing is riding o...
BRUCE GALE Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.
GALE NORTON I believe he understands the concepts.
RICHARD GALE Calls are certainly up and we are taking on another 25 staff.
RICHARD GALE Lent is a time to reflect on Jesus dying on the cross.
LAURA GALE Palm Sunday is like a glimpse of Easter. It's a little bit joyful after being somber during Lent.
LAURA GALE We came up with a sort of '80s Richter scale. We didn't want everyone to scream '80s.
GREGORY GALE We didn't want to make fun of the '80s. It's such an important part of the play. We wanted to be tru...
GREGORY GALE Let's face it. It's obviously a time for caution. People are a bit quieter and taking things a bit s...
ERIC GALE I don't think the market is terribly worried about inflation but there is an expectation that corpor...
ERIC GALE The market is still recovering from a pretty strong close to June.
ERIC GALE He had the backbone to fashion his own agenda.
WILLIAM GALE They're telling kind of a big lie about tax reform.
WILLIAM GALE Imagine if we had privatized Social Security, and all these people had $50,000 or $100,000 in their ...
WILLIAM GALE We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.
GALE NORTON I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem...
GALE NORTON When I wrote to him, he was still starring in 'Third Rock,' so kids knew who he was. And I think he'...
DAVID GALE Gaming is such a huge part of the culture for MTV's audience it makes perfect sense for us to work w...
DAVID GALE We were tracking this project really early
on, and it really was about the material itself for ...
DAVID GALE We are very excited to be
working hand in hand with Midway to translate this innovative game i...
DAVID GALE Gaming is such a huge part of the culture for MTV's audience it makes perfect sense for us to work w...
DAVID GALE It lifts some of the barriers that keep us from competing on a level playing field.
GALE GIVEN We look at it as trying to meet our customers' needs. We know some people are going to drop one serv...
GALE GIVEN Desserts are the finishing touch to a wonderful meal; but it is commonly accepted that desserts are ...
GALE GAND Desserts are the finishing touch to a wonderful meal; but it is commonly accepted that desserts are ...
GALE GAND Men try to intimidate women out of the kitchen.
GALE GAND They have performed well all year. They are where we expected them to be.
GALE GROSS It was a personal record for Josh by more than two feet. He had gone 47 feet in our previous meet, s...
GALE GROSS All we're asking for is some time.
GALE KLEINKOPF We've based our entire economy on agriculture. Is this what we want to do -- ship all our water out ...
GALE KLEINKOPF There will be a tremendous amount of work after the roll-out.
GALE KLAPPA If it's not easy to get the information, that region will lose that opportunity.
GALE KLAPPA The lack of a regional effort up to this point has been an impediment.
GALE KLAPPA We are engaged in a very serious campaign over all of these initiatives and they are all failing, .....
GALE KAUFMAN This is the first election that's about him .
GALE KAUFMAN Why would they do that? They know he's failing.
GALE KAUFMAN There is so much anger about the governor holding this election that we're not worried about turnout...
GALE KAUFMAN This governor is spending $80 million of taxpayer money on an election that voters resoundingly have...
GALE KAUFMAN I think it means what we've been saying all along - the governor's initiatives are not real reform. ...
GALE KAUFMAN It's a phony election that he creates on issues that every poll says voters don't care about and he'...
GALE KAUFMAN We don't want them to play in 35 mph winds. It's not fair to either team.
GALE HOWARD She wants to go out with a good year as a senior. She's focused.
GALE HOWARD It was my dream for several years to own a Friesian.
GALE WOLFE So we're looking forward to a matched pair of driving horses pulling that sleigh next year.
GALE WOLFE It took a full two months from the day I paid for her until I got her.
GALE WOLFE There aren't any shelters out there.
GALE RUSSELL We were called by the Lord to do this mission.
GALE RUSSELL That's what separates shelters from the mission.
GALE RUSSELL We run the business 24 hours a day. We're grateful for Amazon. It has provided us with a lot of oppo...
GALE PETRONIS We saw the potential in Orlando; it really seemed like it was going to take off.
GALE PETRONIS In a family business, it's the third generation that presents the big problems. The first generation...
GALE PETRONIS Different states have different attitudes on this,
GALE NORTON Our approach has been to have a balanced energy policy, and today's decision indicates that balance....
GALE NORTON We don't have an international market
GALE NORTON Eating together is important family time; it validates the importance in family and offers good soci...
GALE MILLS We offer it to all schools, grades 3 to 8.
GALE MILLS ? Natatakot ako na baka hindi ako alalahanin ng mga tao kapag nawala na ako sa mundo. Hindi naman sa...
GALE KELIER We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back to...
GALE FORMAN It's an audience that appreciates what I have.
LAURA GALE It will be a little city out there by 5 a.m..
JODY GALE I don't know a better preparation for life than love of poetry and a good digestion
ZONA GALE It's totally possible that that happens.
TRISTAN GALE If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There certainly does seem a possibility that the detective story will come to an end, simply because...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who make some other person their job... are dangerous.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Very dangerous things, theories.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Trouble shared is trouble halved.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There's nothing you can't prove if your outlook is only sufficiently limited.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach peo...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS (One character on another:)
"Don't you know that I passionately dote on every chin on his...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same for...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- o...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the who...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It is the sin that believes in nothing,
cares for nothing,
seeks to know nothing,
interfere...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A society in which consumption has to be artificially stimulated in order to keep production going i...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they ge...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS As I grow older and older
And totter towards the tomb,
I find I care less and less
Who goes...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men whe...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS See that the mind is honest, first; the rest may follow or not as God wills. [That] the fundamental ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either schola...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS [O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer sh...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave '...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his j...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS Do you know how to pick a lock?"
"Not in the least, I'm afraid."
"I often wonder what we g...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It is extraordinarily entertaining to watch the historians of the past ... entangling themselves in ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles. ...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS They cultivated normality till it stood out of them all over in knobs, like the muscles upon profess...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a less...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS There's something hypnotic about the word tea.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS What'll Geoffrey do when you pull off your First, my child?" demanded Miss Haydock.
"Well...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS I do know the worst sin--perhaps the only sin--passion can commit, is to be joyless.
DOROTHY L. SAYERS It's disquieting to reflect that one's dreams never symbolize one's real wishes, but always somethin...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS And then, at night, the lit lamp and the drawn curtain, with the flutter of the turned page and soft...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS