Top 100 Dean Quotes
#1. What are you thinking, Dean? What do you want?" I whispered as his eyes drifted from my lips then to my eyes. He kept his hands in his pockets as he inched forward.
"What you promised me,
Kate Stewart
#2. Dean Walker, my brother. The man that's well on his way to earning the proud title of town drunk.
Melyssa Winchester
#3. DEAN: Come back when you're ready to play with the grown-ups.
Mina Carter
#4. John Lewis Gaddis is not only the favorite historian of the Reagan administration, but he's regarded as the dean of Cold War scholarship, the leading figure in the American Cold War scholarship, a professor at Yale.
Noam Chomsky
#5. You know, Eric, I could have sworn I heard a goat bleating while I was working in the slype yesterday evening.
I expect the Dean had separated it from the sheep, Eric said solemnly. Isn't that what clergy are for?
Catherine Aird
#6. You want to know what Classics are?" said a drunk Dean of Admissions to me at a faculty party a couple of years ago. "I'll tell you what Classics are. Wars and homos.
Donna Tartt
#7. I said I thought I liked Dean's idea of a succession of lives - I can't make out from him whether he really believes that or not - and Ilse said that might be all very well if you were sure of being born again as a decent person, but how about it if you weren't?
L.M. Montgomery
#8. My face? Turn-on. Chest? Turn-on. I'd roll over and show you my ass, but we both know the answer will be 'turn-on' so I'll skip that one. Dick? Turn the fuck on. And then we get to the non-physical awesomeness that is Dean.
Elle Kennedy
#9. Youth is the only sexy tragedy. It's James Dean jumping into his Porsche Spyder, it's Marilyn heading off to bed.
Michael Cunningham
#10. I remember the day I discovered James Dean and Marilyn Monroe. I don't know why it affected me so strongly, but I walked down to the corner store and bought every poster of them, and I did my whole room up. Overnight.
Gwen Stefani
#11. I wasn't an expert or even the biggest Dennis Hopper fan in the world. All I knew about him were through his associations with James Dean and Andy Warhol, the fact that he made 'Easy Rider.' I thought his story would have a really great outlaw literary quality to it.
Tom Folsom
#12. Ivy just had to look at him to know that Dean Bennet would never look at her. He was the kind of guy who dated flamenco dancers or famous actresses or multi-lingual international human rights lawyers. Not sheltered little daddy's girls who could barely look at him without turning red.
Amy Andrews
#13. DEAN H*ll hath no fury like a mamma bear...
Mina Carter
#14. I at least felt the obligation to speak clearly [in 'The last Tycoon']. This is pre-Brando and pre-James Dean. Nobody mumbled back then.
Matt Bomer
#15. Howard Dean is a cruel and extremist demagogue. And Howard Dean is as ignorant on John Ashcroft as he is on national security. If this cruel, loudmouth extremist is the cream of the Democrat crop, next November's going to make the 1984 election look like a squeaker.
Tom DeLay
#16. Dean Martin's great-great-uncle, Ebenezer Martin, who said to Eli Whitney, I see the cotton, but where's the gin? Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#17. I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
Learned Hand
#18. Dean Di Laurentis is in my blood now. I didn't expect the intense sexual chemistry between us, but it's here, and it's addictive, and I don't know how I can ever give it up.
Elle Kennedy
#19. ... there was a saying that Marlon Brando changed the way actors acted, James Dean changed the way people lived. I believe that.
Martin Sheen
#20. When I was in high school in the '50s you were supposed to be an Elvis Presley, a James Dean, a Marlon Brando or a Kingston Trio type in a button-down shirt headed for the fraternities at Stanford or Cal.
Robert Hass
#21. One: He's Michael. Two: he's scheduled for a meltdown. Three: Lia had been miss Rosy Sunshine since she got downstairs, and Lia doesn't do roses or sunshine unless she's screwing with someone or deeply upset.
-Dean Redding
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
#22. You two want to get a room?" Dean asked.
"We already have one," Lucy answered.
Robin Bielman
#23. Is it the problem in my conclusion or is it in you... it's difficult to say I can say for sure Dean Koontz audiobooks I have them on few clicks away... but I can't say anything about your character... it's very soft... lazy and not serious.... you want a lit of with process 0%.
Deyth Banger
#24. I didn't have a cell phone because I never needed to play video games or surf the Net, or exchange nude photos with a congressman. - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 137 chapter 19
Dean Koontz
#25. Helen's gaze flickers to Liv. "I'm Helen Morgan. Dean and I were once married."
"I'm Olivia West," Liv replies. "Dean and I are married." The possessive tone in her voice does me some good.
Nina Lane
#26. All she could think was what an effective...tool it looked. Her father always said you needed the right tool for the job and Dean sure knew how to bring it.
Amy Andrews
#27. It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.
Garrett Hedlund
#28. A dean is the conductor of an orchestra made up entirely of composers.
Mark William Roche
#29. Now we were on the great Texas plain and, as Dean said, "You drive and drive and you're still in Texas tomorrow night.
Jack Kerouac
#30. A modern university dean might feel that this danger was a just punishment for Galileo's evasion of teaching duties. But
Steven Weinberg
#31. I have finally taught Dean that he can do anything he wants, become mayor of Denver, marry a millionairess, or become the greatest poet since Rimbaud. But he keeps rushing out to see the midget auto races
Jack Kerouac
#33. Maybe he used a bit too much hair spray, but the James Dean coif flattered him.
Jamie McGuire
#34. I always watch Dean Martin's show ... just to see if he falls down.
James Stewart
#35. I'm just saying man is naturally a mythopoeic creature."
"What's that mean?" said the Senior Wrangler.
"Means we make things up as we go along," said the Dean, not looking up.
Terry Pratchett
#36. Presidential Democratic front-runner Howard Dean admitted to Chris Matthews on the 'Hardball' show that he got out of the draft because of a bad back. He had a curvature of the spine. Apparently it curved too far to the left.
Jay Leno
#37. Crows don't take from you," Dean said. "They give your soul wings.
Caitlin Kittredge
#38. I remember as a child, my mother loved Dean Martin. Every Christmas, about the only Christmas album that we were able to listen to was the Dean Martin Christmas album.
Michael Spradlin
#39. I don't want to scare anybody here but we just received word from police that Howard Dean is loose and may be armed with a microphone.
Craig Kilborn
#40. That's all I need," I say. "Well ... I need the lamp. And the astray. And the remote control. And the paddleball game. And you, Dean Holder. But that's all I need
Colleen Hoover
#41. I punched my buddy in the nose after lunch, now I'm in trouble cause the dean saw the punch.
Bobby Vee
#42. KACIE: ....she'd always had a thing for hot ex-jock soldiers like Dean.
Mina Carter
#43. It had been the first kiss for both of them, and to this day, when Dean kissed a woman, he longed for the smell of the sea.
Kristin Hannah
#44. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry came down pretty hard on fellow candidate Howard Dean this weekend. After Dean misspoke several times, Kerry said you can't misspeak 15 times in a week and be president. And Bush said, 'You can't'?
Jay Leno
#45. I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
Tab Hunter
#46. You may have heard that a dean is to faculty as a hydrant is to a dog.
Alfred Kahn
#47. I wonder if Dean is his nice persona and Holder is his scary one. Holder is definitely the one I saw at the grocery store earlier. I think I like Dean a lot better.
Colleen Hoover
#48. Dean, Maya's just a little girl. She has a lot of energy and needs," his mother went on. "We just can't give that to her. You're young and Silver Bell Falls is a wonderful place for her to grow up.
Samantha Chase
#49. McGeorge Bundy was a brilliant man who'd had a meteoric academic career and was the youngest man ever to be dean of the Harvard faculty. But he was also arrogant and looked upon all sorts of people and politicians as not to be taken all that seriously.
Robert Dallek
#50. I guess he was such an open, emotional vessel that I think he tapped into human nature, so it just left people wondering what would have happened. I think James Dean would be 83 today. He could be here, what would he be doing?
Dane DeHaan
#51. Every time I see his name (Dean Chance) on a lineup card, I feel like throwing up.
Mickey Mantle
#52. Howard Dean knows about as much about the South as a hog knows about Sunday.
Zell Miller
#53. As one Wharton dean explains, "The students call it Game Face: they feel pressured to look successful all the time. There can't be any chinks in their armor, and opening up would make them vulnerable.
Adam Grant
#54. People think power makes them big, but it brings out their inner bratty child and makes them small." - Grady Adams - "Breathless by Dean Koontz pg 287 chapter 59
Dean Koontz
#55. In the hall itself the din of the music - for this is the real way to play a jukebox and what it was originally for - was so tremendous that it shattered Dean and Stan and me for a moment in the realization that we had never dared to play music as we wanted, and this was how loud we wanted.
Jack Kerouac
#56. There's a wealth of information on James Dean, and everybody has an opinion on him. James Dean made some kind of impression on everybody.
Dane DeHaan
#57. Have they even seen the Winchester boys? Sammy and Dean's existence proves there is a god and she is a woman.
Darynda Jones
#58. It was remarkable how Dean could go mad and then suddenly continue with his soul - which I think is wrapped up in a fast car, a coast to reach, and a woman at the end of the road - calmly and sanely as though nothing had happened.
Jack Kerouac
#59. Then the Dean repeated the mantra that has had such a marked effect on the progress of knowledge throughout the ages.
"Why don't we just mix up absolutely everything and see what happens?" he said.
And Ridcully responded with the traditional response.
"It's got to be worth a try," he said.
Terry Pratchett
#60. 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
#61. I love Marlon Brando and James Dean. That was when it was all about the star and the script. Nowadays, everything has to be action-packed.
Ansel Elgort
#62. It's exactly because of what you are," he'd said. Dean hadn't mean prostitute, although he'd deliberately allowed Rob to think so. What you are is beautiful. Warm. Unbearably precious. One night with you, and I'd do anything to keep you. Tear Carwick apart, stone by stone, with my bare hands.
M.J. Pearson
#63. The Dean campaign had accidentally created a movement for a passionate few rather than a vote-getting operation.
Clay Shirky
#64. Howard Dean has been successful because he was clear in his opposition to the war. People appreciate a politician with the courage to say, I oppose this war.
Bianca Jagger
#65. I defy anyone to think of the name Dean Martin and not smile.
Now, that's amore.
Deana Martin
#66. My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.
Dylan McDermott
#67. There are three things in this world that will survive a nuclear explosion: Twinkies, cockroaches and Dean Ambroses.
Dean Ambrose
#68. That's the difference between Good and Evil, Clarissa,' the Evil Dean said softly. 'We know that love isn't always enough for a happy ending.
Soman Chainani
#69. I don't know what will be more painful. Staying away from her so she doesn't find out, or telling her the truth and ruining her life all over again. - Dean Holder
Colleen Hoover
#70. I would dream. I focused all my attention on going to America. The subculture, James Dean, the rock n' roll, the beat writers.
David Bowie
#71. You know that Yeti-beard doesn't make you look more manly, right?" Dean says cheerfully as we walk out the door.
Tuck shrugs. "I was going for rugged, actually."
I snicker. "Well, it's not that, either, Babyface. You look like a mad scientist.
Elle Kennedy
#72. Words can launch us. We don't need to be a dean to say words that change everything for someone. Instead, God made it so that ordinary people like you and me can launch each other.
Bob Goff
#73. After World War II, American leaders were, in Dean Acheson's words, 'present at the creation' of a global order. Now at the end of the cold war, we desperately need that same vision, that leadership, that creativity to be applied to the governance of the global marketplace.
John J. Sweeney
#74. It's better, really, to go out in a blaze. That's why we love Marilyn, and James Dean. We love the ones who walk right into the fire.
Michael Cunningham
#75. Dean Holder? Messy brown hair? Smoldering blue eyes? A temper straight out of Fight Club?
Colleen Hoover
#76. Shit. Dean and I had gone from workout buddies to acting like a bunch of overanalysing pussies. Next thing you knew, we'd start having our periods at the same time.
Karina Halle
#77. At least I fight my own battles, Alister,' Micah said.
'Really? And exactly why did you go cackling to the dean?
Cinda Williams Chima
#78. To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, who never mentions hell to ears polite.
Alexander Pope
#79. Frankly, I have no sex appeal. Just strolling in Los Angeles, London, or Paris, you will find a bunch of young guys like me. I am not James Dean.
Robert Pattinson
#80. Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged.
Fred F. Fielding
#81. I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.
Al Sharpton
#82. Probably the first time I was a boss was when I was associate dean of the graduate school at the University of Southern California. I was in my early 30s.
Ruth J. Simmons
#83. A fierce battle was raging inside Harry's brain:
She's Ron's sister.
But she's ditched Dean!
She's still Ron's sister.
I'm his best mate!
That'll make it worse.
If I talked to him first-
He'd hit you.
What if I don't care?
He's your best mate!
J.K. Rowling
#84. To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.
Wavy Gravy
#85. Do you want a baby?" I finally ask.
"No."
My heart almost stops. "No?"
"I don't want a baby." Dean puts his hand on my belly, spreading his fingers out. "But I do want this baby. I want our baby."
I smile, relief filling me like light. "Good, because that's all I've got.
Nina Lane
#86. My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground.
Maya Lin
#88. A number of plastic surgeons are claiming that looking at John Kerry now, as opposed to a few months ago, they believe he's had Botox shots. They claim a number of his worry lines have vanished. They haven't vanished, just Howard Dean is wearing them now.
Jay Leno
#89. Did you folks see President Bush's State of the Union Address? How about that surprise announcement? Howard Dean has been captured and he's in the hands of interrogators.
David Letterman
#90. Empire of Deception is a sure thing
a book guaranteed to entertain and make you rich (in knowledge, that is). Dean Jobb has found a fascinating yet little-known jazz-age tale and told it with style and smarts. Get in on the action.
Jonathan Eig
#91. Dean? Dean's my protector?" The universe just went to the shithole. -Ren
Priya Kanaparti
#92. Dean's wife, Judith Steinberg, made a rare appearance with Dean. She's a doctor, so I guess they brought her in to stop the hemorrhaging.
Jay Leno
#93. Dean is a doctor but he acts more like a postal worker!
Jay Leno
#94. Al Gore has endorsed Howard Dean for president. That's pretty fitting, the guy that didn't beat Bush endorsing the guy who won't beat Bush.
David Letterman
#95. college and meets the Dean of Admissions, who signs
Various
#96. Connor couldn't be sure, but he thought he heard him mumble, First Dean, then McCall. These boys are dropping like flies.
Robin Bielman
#97. Madaming is the sort of thing that happens to you - like getting a battlefield commission or becoming the dean of women at Stanford University.
Sally Stanford
#98. And I'm pretty sure that everyone in the Pacific Northwest heard Ryan Dean West shout, YOUSTEPPEDONMYFUCKINGNUTSYOUSONOFABITCH!
Andrew Smith
#99. Chocolate is maybe my only vice. In particular, Godiva's champagne truffles. Or Dean & Deluca vanilla cupcakes. Just thinking about them - oh my gosh!
Shilpa Shetty
#100. Robert Pattinson is rebel cool incarnated
the James Dean of the undead.
James Wolcott
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