Top 100 Dana Quotes
#1. When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being sorrowful and lonely.
Dana Reeve
#2. Ah, you're warming up to me. You know what comes next."
"Bitter disappointment?" she deadpanned.
Dana Marton
#3. Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.
Charles A. Dana
#4. Since the dawn of time, primitive humans thought, loved and had poetry. They also pooped on everything. It was horrible.
Dana Gould
#5. Memory all to easily accommodates the corruption of regret.
Dana Spiotta
#6. It's been years since any hillbilly has reported getting sodomized by an alien. Did they break up and not tell us?
Dana Gould
#7. Earthquakes would be great if they could hit specific areas, like the parent lounge at a children's beauty pageant.
Dana Gould
#8. The woman was Diana Vreeland, the high priestess of fashion and legendary fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar and editor-in-chief of Vogue. Dana paused, eyes wide. Well, perhaps she was a bit star-struck after all.
Lynn Steward
#10. I feel very uncomfortable when I eat in restaurants. I'm obnoxiously polite with the waiters: 'I just want a tuna sandwich. I'll go get it. You sit here - I'll get it, I'll make it.
Dana Gould
#11. There are lots of authentic, moving characters in so-called systems novels, just as there are certainly deep structural ideas in some character-driven novels.
Dana Spiotta
#12. To use it should be as natural ... as to use the trolley when one needs transportation.
John Cotton Dana
#13. I'd be nervous about skiing, wondering what I'd do if I felt shaky on top of a mountain; but other diabetics do ski, so there's no reason I couldn't.
Dana Hill
#14. When homeless people go camping, how do they know?
Dana Gould
#15. If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
Dana Brunetti
#16. I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
Dana Carvey
#17. If you give the audience what they want when they want how they want it, they won't steal it.
Dana Brunetti
#18. She growled.
He gave her a considering look. "That's almost sexy.
Dana Marton
#19. I used to fear living a life untouched by God, but now, for some reason I've gone back to being afraid of cement mixers.
Dana Gould
#20. I stayed with you inside the room, as the warm white walls became a womb.
Dana Goodyear
#21. When the Transportation Security Administration adopted body scanners at airports, activists wrote the Fourth Amendment on their underwear in metallic paint readable by the new devices.
Dana Priest
#22. My dogs love me. Of course, by love I mean poop and by me I mean everywhere.
Dana Gould
#23. Dogs - putting the lie to the age-old saying, I could never love anyone who ate a diaper.
Dana Gould
#24. I've never really worked on them. Just once in a while one hits me and makes me laugh. My Al Gore was sort of like a gay Gomer Pyle.
Dana Carvey
#25. Soap. If you're going to do that, we might as well kill two birds with one stone."
Fen's brows furrowed. "Why would you want to do that? Arrows are much more accurate.
Dana Marie Bell
#26. Believe it or not, the number one fear in America remains public speaking. And, in some ways, I think that is a real shame because we are so blessed to live in a country where we are able to express ourselves, so we should want to do that.
Dana Perino
#27. Her grief still burdened her, and she knew she would bear it the rest of her days.
Dana Fuller Ross
#28. Many stroke survivors look back on their attack as a stroke of luck. Of course, by luck they mean horrible paralysis.
Dana Gould
#29. Happiness is an emotion based on positive circumstances within our lives. The origin of the word "happiness" was
derived from the same root "hap", similar to the word "happening." Depending on what's happening in our lives, we're either happy or sad. It's based on pure luck and good fortune.
Dana Arcuri
#30. Everyday is filled with opportunities to take a quiet moment
Dana Reinhardt
#31. I had one friend with same-sex orientation, and Dana hadn't spoken to me since I asked her to describe her honeymoon in graphic detail - and then made vibrator noises.
Dani Alexander
#32. The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.
Dana Snyder
#34. My life is just like Breaking Bad except instead of a chemistry teacher I'm just a guy and instead of making meth I don't do much.
Dana Gould
#35. Want to be happy? Don't live competitively. Be content who you are. Live at peace with yourself and the losers below you.
Dana Gould
#36. Laramie had smiled at Dana. "You just can't stand one of your cousins making a clean getaway.
B. J. Daniels
#37. It annoys her how easily Dana can forget the past.
But it also makes Margo jealous. Because she can't.
Siobhan Vivian
#38. Have you ever closed your eyes and listened to the sound of your own mother's voice?
Dana Spiotta
#39. She discovered, despite what people may imagine, having nothing to lost is a lot like having nothing. (But there was something to lose, even at this point, something huge to lose, and that was why this unknown, homeless state never resembled freedom.)
Dana Spiotta
#40. Forgiveness is empowering for the forgiver. Years of resentment, frustration, and pain are set FREE!
Dana Arcuri
#41. Once the fire from the retaliatory strike dies down, the American people are going to find out that it is the Clinton Administration's wrongheaded policies that resulted in the creation of this terrorist haven in Afghanistan in the first place.
Dana Rohrabacher
#42. The intelligence activities undertaken by the United States government are lawful, necessary and required to protect Americans from terrorist attacks
Dana Perino
#43. If I had the opportunity to buy the latest movie that's out that month and watch it on the comfort of my big screen TV, I would pay for that.
Dana Brunetti
#44. To keep your love of running fresh, sign up for races and then don't take yourself or anyone around you too seriously.
Dana L. Ayers
#45. I had come out of the city, where story-telling is a manufactured science, to the country where story-telling is a by-product of life.
Dana Burnet
#46. I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.
Dana Snyder
#47. I got rid of my teeth at a young age because I'm straight. Teeth are for gay people. That's why fairies come and get them.
Dana Snyder
#49. You need to feel good about yourself, the motivation has to come from within. You have nobody to fall back on except yourself.
Dana Hill
#50. It's nice to live in a country that has its priorities straight: the library's open three hours a week, and the House of Fist is 24/7.
Dana Gould
#51. at the city level, support for community control didn't have much to do with teaching and learning. It was about money, political alliances, and power.
Dana Goldstein
#52. I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
Dana Carvey
#53. Do transvestites have to dress up for Halloween or do they pretty much qualify from the get-go?
Dana Gould
#54. You can't help but be in awe of the athletic abilities of the WWE Superstars.
Dana Davis
#55. there's something satisfying and liberating about covering ground solely by moving our own bodies.
Dana L. Ayers
#57. When all the people covered in tattoos turn about 70 years old, they're going to look like a strange race of melting clowns.
Dana Gould
#58. If I only ran when nothing hurt, I would never run.
Dana Carvey
#59. He tsked. "No tits, no manners." He shook his head. "You should try to have at least one or the other. A pair of great tits covers a multitude of sins.
Dana Marton
#60. Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
Dana Delany
#61. Claws." She pointed to her pussy. "Delicate bits." She shook her finger at him. "So not chocolate and peanut butter.
Dana Marie Bell
#62. I learned a long time ago life just isn't fair, so you better stop expecting it to be.
Dana Reeve
#63. There is a witchery in the sea, its songs and stories, and in the mere sight of a ship, and the sailor's dress, especially to a young mind, which has done more to man navies, and fill merchantmen, than all the pressgangs of Europe.
Richard Henry Dana Jr.
#64. Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
Dana Spiotta
#65. Sin hath broke the world's sweet peace
unstrung
Th' harmonious chords to which the angels sung.
Richard Henry Dana Jr.
#66. If you don't believe in the living dead, how do your explain the Golf Channel?
Dana Gould
#67. Just when you think you're coming out and you think, 'OK, I see the light at the end of the tunnel,' then I got this diagnosis.
Dana Reeve
#69. He smiled. "I bet the paper ran something about you once your hiring was confirmed. A new cop is big news in a small town. People were probably admonished to make you feel at home."
She shook her head with some amusement. "I would have felt more at home if they shot at me,.
Dana Marton
#70. When I was starting out and had to cut my teeth and build my resume to get in, I had to basically work for free on a lot of things.
Dana Brunetti
#72. Having kids means there's always someone around to blame your fart on.
Dana Gould
#73. The expression working like a dog dates back to a time in America when men would rise early, then lie around all day and lick their balls.
Dana Gould
#74. Poetry offers a way of understanding and expressing existence that is fundamentally different from conceptual thought.
Dana Gioia
#76. Carbon dioxide is ... being portrayed as a pollutant; in fact, it makes things grow, and it is not toxic to humans.
Dana Rohrabacher
#77. If I had a Volkswagon Beetle. I'd paint the front to resemble Glenn Langdon in War Of The Colossal Beast. Why? Two words: The Ladies.
Dana Gould
#78. If God is all powerful, and Jesus is the son of God, why did He make His birthday fall on Christmas?
Dana Gould
#79. My whole approach to marriage is simple: my wife will do something that drives me insane, I won't say anything, and then, later, I'll die of cancer.
Dana Gould
#80. My teaching exists in a different part of my brain. However, I am lucky enough to teach very smart graduate students.
Dana Spiotta
#81. I'm the kind of person that if I see someone else crying, I cry too. I take on that emotion.
Dana Davis
#82. Now that the Sanctity and Holiness of heterosexual marriage has been destroyed, are they going to cancel The Bachelor?
Dana Gould
#83. Why was Will able to buy this cherished object, this marker of some long-past connection between two people, in an antiques store? At some point there had to be an ending, a death or a breakup, and it got tossed in a box to be given away or sold.
Dana Spiotta
#84. The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
Dana Brunetti
#85. Durbin's sunglasses were gone, and his gray eyes sparkled up at her. He winked. "Take care of yourself, Dr. Venkman."
Lena bit back a grin. "You too, Dana Barrett.
Laura Oliva
#86. He was looking at me, and I wondered whether he could feel how much I wanted to touch him.
Dana Reinhardt
#87. A great way to be left alone on the subway is to appear to be deep in conversation with a small knife.
Dana Gould
#89. Common sense dictates the term hot fudge sundae has a totally different meaning in prison.
Dana Gould
#90. It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
Dana Hussein
#91. As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I could sense that many things I couldn't see or understand were changing, expanding, getting so big they were difficult to manage.
Dana Priest
#92. The power lies with content creators now, but if you can't reach people, there's no point.
Dana Brunetti
#93. I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
Dana Carvey
#94. After the 9/11 attacks, I dutifully stocked up on rolls of duct tape and N-95 masks, as the government recommended.
Dana Milbank
#95. Journalism consists in buying white paper at two cents a pound and selling it at ten cents a pound.
Charles A. Dana
#96. How do you expect anyone to accept you if you can't accept yourself?
Dana Elmendorf
#97. If you encounter someone who pronounces the t in often, odds are they're a douchebag.
Dana Gould
#98. I'd hopefully work through all my issues with men first so then I'd be okay being with a woman.
Dana Plato
#99. The future of the television industry is changing at an unstoppable rate, and it is exciting to share my experience and thoughts on how this will change the value of content in the digital space.
Dana Brunetti
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