Does Quotes

One of the worst things about racism is what it does to young people.

The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!

Knowledge cultivates your seeds and does not sow in your seeds.

Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.

Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

I've always wanted to go to Switzerland to see what the army does with those wee red knives.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Like Andy Warhol and unlike God Almighty, Larry King does not presume to judge; all celebrities are equal in his eyes, saints and sinners alike sharing the same 'Love Boat' voyage into the dark beyond, a former sitcom star as deserving of pious send-off as Princess Diana.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

At the turn of the century theatre does not have to be prescriptive.

No, but you've got to be here in case something does happen.

I get mad like anybody else does, but being able to laugh about getting mad is very healthy, and my kids know that.

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.

As a novelist, you could say that I am dreaming while I am awake, and every day I can continue with yesterday's dream. Because it is a dream, there are so many contradictions and I have to adjust them to make the story work. But, in principle, the original dream does not change.

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn't worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it's life or death.

For me, the wheelchair symbolizes disability in a way a cane does not.

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

The hand cannot reach higher than does the heart.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

No psychologist should pretend to understand what he does not understand... Only fools and charlatans know everything and understand nothing.

What does it say about a president's policies when he has to use a cartoon character rather than real people to justify his record? What does it say about the fiction of old liberalism to insist that good jobs and good schools and good wages will result from policies that have failed us, time and again?

Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.

If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%.

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.