Dean Quotes - Page 2

• Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done.

  Sydney Smith

  Together, Done, Canon

  On a proposal to surround St Paul's with a wooden pavement, in H. Pearson 'The Smith of Smiths' (1934) ch. 10, p. 237

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• I don't drink any more than the man next to me, and the man next to me is Dean Martin.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Men, Alcohol, Next

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• Dean Martin is one of my heroes.

  Joe Mantegna

  Hero, My Hero

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• All of my life I've spent a lot of time with gay men - Montgomery Clift, Jimmy Dean, Rock Hudson - who are my colleagues, coworkers, confidantes, my closest friends, but I never thought of who they slept with! They were just the people I loved. I could never understand why they couldn't be afforded the same rights and protections as all of the rest of us. There is no gay agenda, it's a human agenda

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Gay, Men, Rights

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• The best part of a Mr. Goodbar is not the wrapper, is it? No, and the best part of a Coke is not the can. On those nights when you lie awake, either man or boy, wondering about yourself, peeling away one layer of oddness after another, you should remember and always be grateful that the woefully imperfect person that you are, with all your contradictions and unworthy desires, is not the best of you, any more than the wrapper is the best part of a Mr. Goodbar. -Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koonts pgs. 354-355 chapter 53

  Dean Koontz

  Lying, Grateful, Boys

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.1422, Bantam

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• Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility. Each of us is a potential source of foolishness, each of us must endure the consequences of the foolishness of others, and in addition to all of that, Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and thereby remind us that we are not the masters of the universe that we like to suppose we are. - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 62 chapter 8

  Dean Koontz

  Humility, Self, Age

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.62, Bantam

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• Dean: Don't you find that somewhat of an aberration? Doesn't this disturb you my dear? After all, it's not normal. Molly: I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.

  Rita Mae Brown

  People, Aberration, World

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• Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.

  Michael Cunningham

  Sexy, Jumping, Tragedy

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• Crows don’t take from you,” Dean said. “They give your soul wings.

  Caitlin Kittredge

  Wings, Giving, Soul

  Caitlin Kittredge (2011). “The Iron Thorn The Iron Codex Book One”, p.312, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Dean flashed me a smile that promised rule-breaking and breathlessness.

  Caitlin Kittredge

  Caitlin Kittredge (2011). “The Iron Thorn The Iron Codex Book One”, p.73, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Marylou was watching Dean as she had watched him clear across the country and back, out of the corner of her eye--with a sullen, sad air, as though she wanted to cut off his head and hide it in her closet, an envious and rueful love of him so amazingly himself, all raging and sniffy and crazy-wayed, a smile of tender dotage but also sinister envy that frightened me about her, a love she knew would never bear fruit because when she looked at his hangjawed bony face with its male self-containment and absentmindedness she knew he was too mad.

  Jack Kerouac

  Country, Crazy, Eye

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• Look, Mrs. McGillicuddy, it's not my fault your son jumped out a dorm room window on Christmas eve. I've written over fifty books as a Columbia professor, all right? You don't do that by holding hands with every at-risk undergraduate who says he's homesick, or he's turning gay, or the dog ate his term paper. I write about Lincoln, and freedom, and great ideas. I don't always have time for students. It's like Dean Martin used to say: if you want to talk, go to a priest. Hey -- what's the gun for?

  Eric Foner

  Dog, Book, Writing

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• You can give me detention. Oh, wait, that's right...you aren't the boss of me. So I guess you can just bite me. -Dean

  Jeff Mariotte

  Giving, Waiting, Boss

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• Between birth and burial, we find ourselves in a comedy of mysteries. If you don't think life is mysterious, if you believe you have it all mapped out, you aren't paying attention or you've anesthetized yourself with booze or drugs, or with a comforting ideology. And if you don't think life's a comedy - well, friend, you might as well hurry along to that burial. The rest of us need people with whom we can laugh. -Odd Thomas -Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 30 chapter 4

  Dean Koontz

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.30, Bantam

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• Dean: If there is a greater power, why is it he can't get you a new sweater? Jamie: Because, he's too busy looking for your brain.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Sweaters, Brain, Busy

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• Leona Helmsley's dog made $12 million last year... and Dean McLaine, a farmer in Ohio, made $30,000. It's just a gigantic version of the madness that grows in every one of our brains.

  Tom Waits

  Dog, Ohio, Years

  Source: www.npr.org

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• From 1936 on, I have taken more falls than any other 20 comedians put together. From the time I was 21, I've taken them on everything from clay courts to cement to wood floors, coming off pianos, going out a two-story window, landing on Dean, falling into the rough. You do that and you're gonna have problems.

  Jerry Lewis

  Fall, Taken, Two

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• To be honest, I've made a game out of trying to live through my James Dean, Janis Joplin, Freddie Prinze, Jim Morrison period, those demons that we all have that we're either successful or not at making work for us rather than destroy us.

  Patrick Swayze

  Successful, Games, Trying

  "Swayze's Best Act: Being Able to Show Up" by Bill Carter, www.nytimes.com. October 28, 2008.

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• galatea was a serious girl. she was pale and looked like tears all over. big ed passed his hand through his hair and said hello. she looked at him steadily. "where have you been? why did you do this to me?" and she gave dean a dirty look; she knew the score. dean paid absolutely no attention; what he wanted now was food; he asked jane if there was anything. the confusion began right there.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Dirty, Hair

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• I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Kings, Leader, Doe

  "Qaddafi Erupts, on Schedule" by Sharon Otterman and Robert Mackey, thelede.blogs.nytimes.com. March 30, 2009.

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• Have they even seen the Winchester boys? Sammy and Dean's existence proves there is a god and she is a woman.

  Darynda Jones

  Boys, Existence, Prove

  Darynda Jones (2013). “Fifth Grave Past the Light”, p.150, Macmillan

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• This boy turkied my Thanksgiving, but I won't let him Grinch my Christmas. -Dean Hughes (Midway to Heaven)

  Dean Hughes

  Boys, Heaven, Midway

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• I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal with men of substance, statesman, business leaders, the clergy... So why do I spend my time arguing with Dizzy Dean?

  Branch Rickey

  Baseball, Teacher, Men

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• To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.

  Alexander Pope

  Ears, Hell, Courtesy

  'Epistles to Several Persons' 'To Lord Burlington' (1731) l. 149

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• Thanks to April,” she whispered, “you have the wedding you’ve dreamed about ever since you were a little girl.” Dean’s boom of laughter was one more reason she loved this man with all her heart.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Girl, Laughter, Heart

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