Top 100 Dan Quotes
#1. He turned the book around to show me. It was a short list. Accept Dan's apology. Give Dan a Toblerone. Kiss Dan. Without
Lindsey Kelk
#2. Dan gripped tighter, increasing the pressure until the lowered eyes came up and met his. We're all going to Boston, but John and I have other business to take care of there.
Stephen King
#3. Karen couldn't understand how these encounters had marked him, and she had always believed that a person without trauma was dangerous in some way, untested. Also bizarre: in all of his stories, Dan ended up succeeding.
Alexandra Kleeman
#4. Thanks, but I can handle him," Neil said.
"We noticed," Dan said dryly.
Nora Sakavic
#5. Ninja Assasins Incorporated, Dan Cahill speaking. Who would you like offed today?
Clifford Riley
#6. The crewman told Dan his name was Bosun Higgs, and Helen didn't believe that for a second.
Terry Pratchett
#7. Dan said the other day to the guide, Enough, enough, enough! Say no more! Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!
Mark Twain
#8. Dan Cahill thought he had the most annoying big sister on the planet. And that was before she set fire to two million dollars.
Rick Riordan
#9. Business coach Dan Sullivan says, If you spend too much time working on your weaknesses, all you end up with is a lot of strong weaknesses!
Jack Canfield
#10. I love Radiohead, which most people don't expect, and I listen to everything from Stevie Wonder to Steely Dan, Carole King, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, Beyonce Knowles, Vampire Weekend, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Burt Bacharach, and Paul Simon.
Eliza Doolittle
#11. The people I admire most are those doing outstanding things for the poorest children, such as Michael Wilshaw at Mossbourne academy, Dan Moynihan and all those at the Harris academies, and those at chains such as Ark and the Haberdashers, who are driving up standards in the poorest areas.
Michael Gove
#12. I would not have married Dan Quayle had I not thought he was an equal to me.
Marilyn Quayle
#13. Don't think of it as losing a boyfriend. Think of it as gaining a stalker.
-Dan Cahill
Gordon Korman
#14. When I moved out of London 13 years ago, I found a whole other reason not to drive. This was because my new husband Dan, unlike my dad, did drive, and this became a great source of fun and adventure.
Julie Burchill
#15. A reader has recently described the Heresy novels as "Dan Brown meets Guy Ritchie" and "I am constantly telling people about the awesome movie I'm watching, and then correct myself. Book. Book that I'm reading.
Alexander Ferrar
#16. You can't actually hire us. Check out the room you're in. We don't need your money... That cat's lunch costs more than most government salaries... We can't even spend all the money we have. In fact, it should be us offering you money, just to get rid of some of it. Want some money? - Dan
C. Alexander London
#17. Come on," she said, smiling for the first time since she'd stepped on the plane. "We need to get to the bus before Ian plugs his iPod into the speakers."
Dan shuddered. "I'd rather face a thousand Vespers than listen to Beethoven.
Clifford Riley
#18. Dan really came into his own pitching last year (during Legion play). He received the sportsmanship award during the regional tournament.
Wade Clark Mackey
#19. Dalai Lama: "If a scientist confirm nonexistence of something we believe, then we have to accept that."
Dan Harris: "So if scientists come up with something that contradicts your beliefs, you will change your beliefs?"
Dalai Lama: "Oh yes. Yes.
Dan Harris
#20. The competition is very stiff. Brian Williams has proved himself as a credible news anchor (at NBC), and Bob Schieffer has done the same (at CBS). But as Peter and Tom (Brokaw) and Dan have always said about the competition, it makes us all better.
Bill Vaughan
#21. I think of Steely Dan as being of its time, and it may be inseparable from its time.
Donald Fagen
#22. What I saw was more than I could stand. The noise I heard had been made by Little Ann. All her life she had slept by Old Dan's side. And although he was dead, she had left the doghouse, had come back to the porch, and snuggled up by his side.
Wilson Rawls
#23. I enjoyed my time at DC. Dan Didio, Geoff Johns and Jim Lee were great to me, and I'm very grateful for the opportunities they gave me. Having said that, I think it's important to try new things and work with new people to keep myself fresh.
Jeff Lemire
#24. It is wonderful ... Steve and Dan took professional football to a whole different level with the way they played the game. The fact that Steve is going in with Dan is very special.
Frank Gifford
#26. Dan Coats, retiring senator from Indiana, a mild-mannered man, a former United States ambassador to Germany, former congressman, said of Ted Cruz he's the most self-centered, narcissistic, pathological liar I have ever seen.And he said, you can quote me on that.
Mark Shields
#27. Where are the fish, though?"
"In the sea they say, in the boats we pray," said Dan, quoting a fisherman's proverb.
Rudyard Kipling
#28. Do girls need kid-glove treatment? I thought they were tougher than that."
Dan's grin was approving. "Most of us are. Some of us are like boys, though, and have delicate egos.
Nora Sakavic
#29. I've worked with Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and lots of different local news anchors.
Mika Brzezinski
#30. Dan, rabbits who've been fed oysters laced with Viagra don't like sex as much as you do.
Matt Dunn
#31. What's the saying? All is donkey balls in love and war?
-Dan Garrett
Leah Rae Miller
#32. Marcus stepped behind the bar, saying, "Dan sent me over to assist you and learn how to tend the bar."
Doms could be pain-in-the-ass mother hens.
Cherise Sinclair
#33. Well," Dan says after about thirty minutes of friendly talk. "Should we go upstairs?
Alessandra Torre
#34. Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#35. King Dan sat on his stallion fierce Swords did slice and spears did pierce But in a tree upon the field Perched a small, keen-eyed blackbird And the blackbird did not sing No, the blackbird did not sing Miri's
Shannon Hale
#36. When Negroes are average, they fail, unless they are very, very lucky. Now, if you're average and white, honey, you can go far. Just look at Dan Quayle. If that boy was colored he'd be washing dishes somewhere.
Annie Elizabeth Delany
#37. Go fuck yourself! - Dan said genuinely pissed off.
Izzy
I've found that I'm a little shy for such blatantly public display of self-affection. Besides, I like to be wined and dined before I have my way with myself. I'm an old-fashioned kind of guy.
Suzanne Brockmann
#38. Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that people like to see a stock company of actors.
Thayer David
#39. I love Coldplay. I love Steely Dan - Steely Dan's probably one of my top three bands of all time.
Judd Apatow
#40. I feel something vibrating and I really hope it's your phone. Serana told Dan, who blushed.
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#41. Four of Dan's sisters had made it. They wore white sundresses they'd altered so three spelled out FOX. The fourth sported a fox paw that was already starting to lose a toe pad. They practically crushed Dan, smothering her with a group hug before fawning over her.
Nora Sakavic
#42. I am deeply saddened to hear the news of Dan's passing. He was a dear friend for many years. Dan & his music will live on in the great songs he shared with us all. My sincere condolences go out to Catherine and the entire Peek family. May he rest in peace ...
Gerry Beckley
#43. As we headed out toward the parking lot, Dan said "Why don't we take the truck? It's less conspicuous."
He had a point. With Fang sitting on the back of my motorcycle in his goggles we were more likely to draw attention than divert it.
YEAH, THAT'S 'CAUSE I'M SMOKIN'!
Parker Blue
#44. It's cold enough to freeze the cliches off a Dan Browne novel. (Thought of that when working in the garden just after getting yet another 'thanks but no thanks'.)
Patsy Collins
#45. That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#46. All this time, Lev ever realized what he needed. He did not need to be adored or pitied. He needed to be forgiven. Not by God, who is all forgiving. Not by people like Marcus and Pastor Dan, who would always stand by his side. He needed to be forgiven by an unforgiving world.
Neal Shusterman
#47. You'd have to be a bold man to bet your life on what I'd dare. How bold are you? -Sand dan Glokta
Joe Abercrombie
#48. Sally Jenkins of the 'Washington Post' is the best sports columnist in the country. Second best is Gene Wojciechowski of ESPN, and third is Dan Wetzel on Yahoo!
Dan Jenkins
#49. It isn't every day I get to meet a legend. Dan Cahill, I presume? - Dr. Tagamayer
Jude Watson
#50. Energetic rumormonger who calls himself Dan Dan the Radio Man.
Ben H. Winters
#51. Yes, Dan'l Webster's dead - or, at least, they buried him. But every time there's a thunderstorm around Marshfield, they say you can hear his rolling voice in the hollows of the sky.
Stephen Vincent Benet
#52. In college, I had an early introduction to classical genetics from Professor Dan Lindsley, also an extraordinary teacher who influenced me greatly.
Bruce Beutler
#53. You'll be boarding the nine twenty-one commercial flight as Shirley and Roderick Cliphorn."
"Roderick Cliphorn?" Dan groaned. Only someone with a name like Sinead Starling would have considered that normal.
Peter Lerangis
#54. For NASA, space is still a high priority." (Quayle, Dan; 1990).
Dan Quayle
#55. Dan Moldea, the lead investigator for Larry Flynt's ongoing quest to uncover sexual indiscretions of Republican congressional members, has now admitted he was hired by the law firm defending President Clinton.
Jerry Falwell
#57. I need to add that my work on multiple intelligences received a huge boost in 1995 when Daniel Goleman published his book on emotional intelligence. I am often confused with Dan. Initially, though Dan and I are longtime friends, this confusion irritated me.
Howard Gardner
#58. DAN
What do you want?
ALICE
To be loved.
DAN
That simple?
ALICE
It's a big want.
Patrick Marber
#59. One of the interpreters hired by CBS for the Dan Rather/Saddam Hussein interview adopted a phony Arabic accent. You know, maybe CBS should have hired somebody with a fake Dan Rather accent to ask tougher questions.
Jay Leno
#60. You'd be surprised what a person can live with, Dan said.
Stephen King
#61. Wolfram," Dan mused, a far-off look in his eye. "I've heard of that from somewhere." Amy was skeptical. "Are you sure you're not thinking of Wolfgang?
Gordon Korman
#63. Ticket and passport. We're crossing the border."
"Oh. Sorry." Dan handed the conductor his ticket.
"Grazie."
"De nada," Dan said.
"That's Spanish," Amy whispered.
"No, it's whatever," Dan said. "I'm too tired to think.
Jude Watson
#64. Dan thought of another AA aphorism: We're powerless over people, places, and things. Like most alkie nuggets, it was seventy percent true and thirty percent rah-rah bullshit.
Stephen King
#65. So who spilled the paint?" Dan asked again.
"I did," Shannon and Chase both said at the same time.
Terry Spear
#66. The motherfucker really finds a way to say something very simple in a very complicated way," murmured Jean near Dan's ear. "How many words does it take him to say 'I love you'?"
"None." Dan murmured, smiling. "We're long beyond that.
Aleksandr Voinov
#67. All I know with utter certainty is this. Dan tamed me. We need each other.
He has become unique to me in all the world.
Megan Hart
#68. What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.'
James Wolcott
#69. That's my second rule of life," Dan said. "There's always a guy named Joe.
Jude Watson
#70. The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values.
Harold Prince
#71. The real difference between literature and pulp is the kind of emotional responses they elicit. Dan Brown can't pierce your heart. Patricia Cornwell can't make you read a sentence twice and then look sightlessly out of the window.
Peter Temple
#72. Let's scope the place out," he suggested, heading around the side of the building, "and be careful in the bushes." "Why?" Amy asked. "This is South Africa, dude," Dan replied. "Where cobras come from. And not the hot ones, like Ian.
Peter Lerangis
#73. Most of the time a person wants something more than anything else. You can tell because at the end of the day that's what they're willing to fight for" -Dan
Laura Dave
#74. SHADOW KNIGHT'S MATE is a compelling story, extremely well-written and alarmingly plausible. Jay Brandon does for politics what Dan Brown did for religion.
Sharyn McCrumb
#75. ...if you gobern de shark in you, why den you be angel; for all angel is not'ing more dan de shark well goberned.
Herman Melville
#76. Hey, Eriele?" he said. "You know what's funny?... You're so busy yelling at Ian," Dan said, "you didn't notice our altitude. Time to change the gas mixture.
C. Alexander London
#77. Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, - that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it.
Louisa May Alcott
#78. Dear Dan, Why is the divorce rate so high?
D.A.: It is hard to imagine we can be happy with any decision we make even one year down the road, much less when we look back at our decisions five, ten, twenty, or even fifty years later. Frankly, I am amazed by how low the divorce rate is.
Dan Ariely
#81. A man with a mouth like a mastiff, a brow like a mountain, and eyes like burning antracite - that was Dan'l Webster in his prime.
Stephen Vincent Benet
#82. Out of the east on an Irish stallion came bounty hunter Dan His heart quickened and burdened by the need to get his man He found Pete peacefully fishing by the river, pulled his gun and got the drop He said, Pete, you think you've changed, but you have not.
Bruce Springsteen
#83. Oh, terrific," Dan muttered. "Just what we need. Another code! Why can't people just say what they mean? Why can't they say THE MAP IS IN THE DESK?
Jude Watson
#84. My parents had a huge pile of records - vinyl! - that I loved, especially the Motown stuff, Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Otis Redding.
Jonny Lang
#85. Amy felt her phone vibrate. She held it up. It was from Ian.
DON'T ASK THE PRICE OF ANYTHING. DON'T SMILE. DON'T SAY "DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING CHEAPER?" DON'T
Amy shoved the phone back in her pocket. "Just pretend to be Ian," she told Dan.
Jude Watson
#86. This dazzling, unput-downable debut novel proves beyond a doubt that Dan Wells has the gift. His teenage protagonist is as chilling as he is endearing. More John Wayne Cleaver, please.
F. Paul Wilson
#87. When we played against Dan Marino, the best defense was to keep him on the sideline. By keeping him on the sideline, you made him frustrated. You made him anxious. When he came on the field, he felt like he had to score every time. I think that is where Peyton Manning is.
Boomer Esiason
#88. Trust me, if I was going to leave Dan for anyone, it would be Mark," Violet barks,
Lindsey Iler
#89. When I got home from the Second World War, mu Uncle Dan clapped me on the back, and he said, "You're a man now." So I killed him. Not really, but I certainly felt like doing it.
Kurt Vonnegut
#90. We know who is out there as far as available quarterbacks, but in reality, no one would be more prepared or capable as a No. 2 at this point than Dan. He got more snaps in the preseason than any of our quarterbacks and continues to get better.
Steve Mariucci
#91. Longest free fall, highest skydive, and youngest person to break the speed of sound. You only set three world records. - Amy, to Dan
C. Alexander London
#92. Dan: 'Ah, well, I hope this didn't have anything to do with me.'
Ellen: 'No, not unless you played Cat Woman in Batman.
Ellen DeGeneres
#94. Dan thought of love as defined by books, cobwebbed and hidden from view by the past. Too bad a love like that didn't actually exist. In the twentieth century one had to fake it.
Dennis Cooper
#95. The bubbleGarden," I say to Dan, voice filling the metal common room. "Take me there." I've already turned on a heel. Ragnar pats his thigh. "Come, dog." It
Pierce Brown
#97. On the morning of the July 24, Pioneer Day, Dan got up, prayed, and felt prompted by the Lord to saw the barrel and stock off a 12-gauge, pump-action shotgun that he had been storing at his mother's house.
Jon Krakauer
#98. We all make mistakes. There's a place we can take those to. There's a thing we can nail them to." Her eyes close for a moment and she sees the cross in the shadows of the fading light. "You can nail it to the cross and let it go, Dan. You can let someone else take that burden.
Travis Thrasher
#99. I'm very proud to be the first winner of the Indian Grand Prix, but then on the other hand we recently lost two of our mates. I didn't know Dan Wheldon, but he was big in motorsport, and then this year I got to know Marco Simoncelli, so our thoughts are with them at the moment.
Sebastian Vettel
#100. Though part of me had always wanted to be a comedian, another part of me had always wanted to be Bryant Gumbel or Dan Rather.
Chris Rock
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top
