Don't make excuses and Don't talk about it. Do it.
MELVYN DOUGLAS The success of the arts has come through a mix of public subsidy, substantial private support, and g...
MELVYN BRAGG In music, the Specials brought a city, Coventry, bombed out for a second time and riven with racism,...
MELVYN BRAGG I don't go around thinking I'm attractive or not attractive. It has never occurred to me. Pe...
MELVYN BRAGG The twentieth century French dramatist Jean Anouilh wrote a play about Beckett which was made into a...
MELVYN FANCY The theatre always seems to be in trouble but always thriving. It's deeply comical to me that we...
MELVYN BRAGG Too old at 72? Careful. Ageism is out. We'll have the law on you!
MELVYN BRAGG We listened to a lot of drama, adaptations of books, comedy. There was a real love of music expresse...
MELVYN BRAGG I don't want closure, I don't know what that means or why you would want it.
MELVYN BRAGG The class barricades have been stormed by the forces of a broad culture, which is made up of cluster...
MELVYN BRAGG I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He i...
MELVYN BRAGG I just got fed up with the Protestantism that I'd been brought up with being rubbed out, disrega...
MELVYN BRAGG Few places on earth have been as affectionately alchemised into literature as the Lake District.
MELVYN BRAGG It is very difficult for middle-aged, institutionalised males who have done so well out of subsidy -...
MELVYN BRAGG I'm going to try and make you take the Beatles and Eric Clapton as seriously as the Berlin Philh...
MELVYN BRAGG We got a copy of the 'New Statesman' at my grammar school in Wigton, Cumbria, in the 1950s. ...
MELVYN BRAGG Dame Barbara Cartland was an endearing eccentric, and when I interviewed her, she wanted me to liste...
MELVYN BRAGG Now, perfectly ordinary people will give each other hugs. I mean, it used to be that a hug was reser...
MELVYN BRAGG In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it.
MELVYN BRAGG It is impossible to get enough books, don't you find? But where are we without them? Just words on t...
MELVYN BRAGG As the 20th century unspooled, a cultural warming melted down many frozen class characteristics.
MELVYN BRAGG Is it rather stupid and dangerous to take Magna Carta so much for granted, as many of us seem to do,...
MELVYN BRAGG Magna Carta has 63 clauses in abbreviated Latin. Two of them that are still on the statute book, num...
MELVYN BRAGG Magna Carta has become totemic. It is in the comedy of Tony Hancock, in the poetry of Kipling, never...
MELVYN BRAGG I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even ...
MELVYN BRAGG Once, the arts were opera, ballet, classical music, and everything else deemed highbrow.
MELVYN BRAGG I don't get nervous when I'm interviewing someone on film - it can be cut, and we can do it ...
MELVYN BRAGG Like university science departments, the arts have shown how they can earn their way and point to an...
MELVYN BRAGG I'm a class mongrel.
MELVYN BRAGG The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other...
MELVYN BRAGG More people go to Tate Modern than watch the Arsenal.
MELVYN BRAGG I have written favourably in support of subsidy for the arts since the 1960s, and I continue to beli...
MELVYN BRAGG The BBC does a sterling job, but I'd like to see it do more. ITV does four arts programmes a yea...
MELVYN BRAGG A three-pint problem
MELVYN SMALL Our lives are righteous that's why we are living forever for all eternity! Alleluia! Amen!
MELVYN M. LUSTERIO My message is that if you enjoy it and are in the mood for it, eating dark chocolate is fine. Just d...
DR. MELVYN RUBENFIRE The intimacy and spiritual relationships or connections that one can have with their significant oth...
DR. MELVYN RUBENFIRE As you raise the levels of HDL cholesterol, the risk of heart attacks and strokes can decrease.
DR. MELVYN RUBENFIRE People think it's bad for them. While abuse of anything is a problem, some chocolates actually have ...
DR. MELVYN RUBENFIRE Historically, things that are bad for you are the things you want. But research shows that's not alw...
DR. MELVYN RUBENFIRE All things under heaven are now in God's supervision for all eternity! Alleluia! Amen!
MELVYN M. LUSTERIO The wisest thing to do in order to be happy is to believe & trust in God! Alleluia! Amen!
MELVYN M. LUSTERIO The happiness we bring in the World is the happiness of our God in Heaven! Alleluia! Amen! <3 O:)...
MELVYN M. LUSTERIO Thinking right makes us good;
Thinking Heaven gives us joy;
Thinking God makes us wise!
MELVYN M. LUSTERIO While the scars of the monstrous Civil War still remain, the wounds have closed since 1865, in large...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the gro...
TOMMY DOUGLAS I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
DOUGLAS ADAMS I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all o...
TOMMY DOUGLAS Every chef has his treats. By that, I mean bits and pieces from things you're working on - crust...
TOM DOUGLAS We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like thi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS God only knows what else is on the web about me.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I had an obsession that I was male characters from movies.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I like doing movies that relate to people's experience.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I wore a lot of vintage clothing. I dressed like a reporter, with a little card in my hat. I had the...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I'm a big fan of Albert Brooks, Nichols and May. I'd like to follow in their footsteps and d...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I'm a huge poster collector.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, an...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS It was an interesting way to come across in my first big role. To work with Robert DeNiro was very e...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS We were big Saturday Night Live and Eddie Murphy fans.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly bec...
ILLEANA DOUGLAS I come from a pretty strange family.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you c...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR It's very tough for me to focus. I'm like: 'Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there ...
GABBY DOUGLAS Smile, it's free therapy.
DOUGLAS HORTON I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.
DOUGLAS LEONE Catfish has a nice firm texture and mild flavor.
TOM DOUGLAS The faux now of Twitter updates and things pinging at you - all the pulses from digitality that we t...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF My wife and I decided to try and kick start our kitchens to a $15 minimum wage for cooks. I've p...
TOM DOUGLAS Sometimes we spend more efforts with people that are strangers in terms of making an impression than...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS You may have a broken heart, but you may find someone else.
DOUGLAS BOOTH There's nothing like a family crisis, especially a divorce, to force a person to re-evaluate his...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS I don't have a cell phone because I know how horrible it is. Using your cell phone is like putti...
DOUGLAS TOMPKINS Slavery is not the only question which comes up in this controversy. There is a far more important o...
STEPHEN DOUGLAS There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and wh...
DOUGLAS ADAMS He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary ...
DOUGLAS REED The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
NORMAN DOUGLAS What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
NORMAN DOUGLAS To find a friend one must close one eye - to keep him, two.
NORMAN DOUGLAS You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising.
NORMAN DOUGLAS This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
DOUGLAS ADAMS In 2012, the city of Austin erected an eight-foot-tall bronze statue of Willie Nelson in the heart o...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY With 'Black Rain,' I spent a lot of time with homicide detectives, and I spent a lot of time...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS If you're part of the Network Generation, you don't have to belong just to one nation. Dual ...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS There were three Selma-to-Montgomery marches in March 1965, and Rosa Parks had missed the first one....
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY When you put an individual on the cover of a big picture magazine, like 'Life of Look', thei...
DOUGLAS KIRKLAND When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bow...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.
DOUGLAS YATES The British actors I've met and worked with have all been very supportive of each other.
DOUGLAS BOOTH This Network Generation have grown up in a connected world. With Skype, Facebook, Twitter and the In...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER Most of us still haven't grasped the fact that everything we commit to the digital space - not j...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hyster...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an ...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF When we settled our country, the dark forest was considered in some ways evil and something that you...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY I get verklempt if I see a vintage TI-30 or TI-54 calculator. But I don't think I'd want to ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND No matter how invasive the technologies at their disposal, marketers and pollsters never come to ter...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF Most people that derail as leaders in the corporate world, it's not because they couldn't do...
DOUGLAS CONANT It's very important that we keep these special, wild places. It defines the United States. Imagi...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY Who doesn't love digging into a plate of crab cakes or going after a chilled cracked crab with c...
TOM DOUGLAS I got my feet wet in a couple of shows. I did a cameo on my favorite show, 'The Vampire Diaries....
GABBY DOUGLAS When I arrived at Campbell on January 8, 2001, the company had lost half its market value in the pri...
DOUGLAS CONANT A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buy...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND When I was a kid and my mom made tomato soup, she would cut buttered toast into squares and float th...
TOM DOUGLAS I'm all for guys being butch and guys being men. I identify with that and appreciate that. But i...
KYAN DOUGLAS I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.
GABBY DOUGLAS It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything...
GABBY DOUGLAS I would love to be a role model.
GABBY DOUGLAS I wear makeup pretty much every day. For training, I usually do a lighter base, a lighter blush and ...
GABBY DOUGLAS My mom used to tell me when I was little, 'When it rains, it's God's manifestation - a b...
GABBY DOUGLAS You've got to be confident when you're competing. You've got to be a beast.
GABBY DOUGLAS I've learned how to stay humble. I don't want to get in over my head because when you do tha...
GABBY DOUGLAS Gospel music always relaxes me and calms my nerves.
GABBY DOUGLAS By now, you've probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the ri...
GABBY DOUGLAS Gold medals are made out of your sweat, blood and tears, and effort in the gym every day, and sacrif...
GABBY DOUGLAS I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and ...
GABBY DOUGLAS You know, God has a plan for me, and I'm going to follow in his footsteps and just rejoice and b...
GABBY DOUGLAS Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware compan...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to g...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR I like to think of thoughts as living blossoms borne by the human tree.
JAMES DOUGLAS How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consent...
NORMAN DOUGLAS I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she j...
GABBY DOUGLAS The simplest way to prepare Dungeness crabs is to boil them in the shell and set them in front of yo...
TOM DOUGLAS Mormons... are so strong, they can handle wealth, they are confident. I think it is because they are...
MARY DOUGLAS My first job was on Broadway. Then I went into the Navy. When I came out of the Navy, I went back to...
KIRK DOUGLAS Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR It is a fatal error to enter any war without the will to win it. •Douglas MacArthur All great...
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boas...
DOUGLAS DUNN Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it it changes into somet...
DOUGLAS ADAMS In the beginning, the universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry, and has been wid...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together...
DOUGLAS JERROLD Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.
DOUGLAS JERROLD Reputations, like beavers and cloaks, shall last some people twice the time of others.
DOUGLAS JERROLD Wit, like money, bears an extra value when rung down immediately it is wanted. Men pay severely wh...
DOUGLAS JERROLD Honest bread is very well--it's the butter that makes the temptation.
DOUGLAS JERROLD I hope that no American . . . will waste his franchise and throw away his vote by voting either for...
DOUGLAS JERROLD A pill that the present moment is daily bread to thousands.
DOUGLAS JERROLD After all there is something about a wedding-gown prettier than in any other gown in the world.
DOUGLAS JERROLD Greece's European neighbors were able step in and bolster the weak foundation on which Greece...
DOUGLAS WILDER It's hard to legislate what people eat. People are getting fed up with being told what they can ...
TOM DOUGLAS I'm spending a year dead for tax reasons.
DOUGLAS ADAMS I wanted to be a writer-performer like the Pythons. In fact, I wanted to be John Cleese, and it took...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Time is bunk.
DOUGLAS ADAMS For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'tr...
DOUGLAS ADAMS If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictu...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong i...
DOUGLAS ADAMS I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?
DOUGLAS ADAMS If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that w...
DOUGLAS ADAMS My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they freq...
DOUGLAS ADAMS In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Sustainability includes how you run your business, and my bottom line includes how you treat your pe...
TOM DOUGLAS I don't know about Brad Pitt leaving that beautiful woman to go hold orphans for Angelina. I mea...
MICHAEL DOUGLAS The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS It is fatal to enter an war without the will to win it.
DOUGLAS MACARTHUR Where does personality end and brain damage begin?
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Fashionable people can opt out of the fashion stream, but a stylish person never becomes unstylish u...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Six silent people in a room got me to thinking about the voice we hear in our heads when we read, th...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND Knievel seemed braver and more brazen - and more unhinged - than any other athlete-cum-thrill-seeker...
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.
DOUGLAS TRUMBULL To shuck oysters, you'll need an oyster knife, a handy tool with a sturdy handle and a short, ri...
TOM DOUGLAS What is blackness? Is it the way you talk? Do you got to say, 'Dey this, dey dat.' Or the wa...
DOUGLAS WILDER We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
DOUGLAS ADAMS The available worlds looked pretty grim. They had little to offer him because he had little to offer...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Friends are like bras: close to your heart and there for support.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
DOUGLAS ADAMS As a professional journalist who nonetheless champions a 'people's' Internet, I am happy...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF Prison is an expensive way of making bad people worse.
DOUGLAS HURD Lured by smooth roads onto a new turnpike, he read with surprise the rules he was handed, don't stop...
DOUGLAS WOOLF Twentyone is too old to go anywhere alone, you know that. I want to go with someone. I don't mean as...
DOUGLAS WOOLF Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose.
DOUGLAS ADAMS and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.
DOUGLAS ADAMS The story so far:
In the beginning the Universe was created.
This has made a lot of people...
DOUGLAS ADAMS I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
DOUGLAS ADAMS I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tel...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Computers don't kill books; people do.
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to ...
SCOTT DOUGLAS I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.
DOUGLAS ADAMS It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.
DOUGLAS ADAMS For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins...
DOUGLAS ADAMS I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.
DOUGLAS ADAMS If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been specially designed to help people...
DOUGLAS ADAMS In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.”
“Yeah,” said the voice from...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Don't Panic.
DOUGLAS ADAMS Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things wi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you m...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Beethoven tells you what it's like to be Beethoven and Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS