Top 100 Delaney Quotes
#1. Frankie raised an eyebrow. Look at you getting all sentimental. You know where to find me.
Delaney nodded. That doesn't mean you want to be found. Come on. One drink.
Holly Hood
#2. You and I will be around a lot longer than Twitter, and nothing substitutes face to face. - Rob Delaney It
Austin Kleon
#3. I'm on Twitter, but I'm not super active. I follow a lot of the same people that a lot of people follow: Rob Delaney, Megan Amram, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, people I've worked with.
Randall Park
#4. Bridget felt like she'd been sucked into a game of Clue. Delaney did it. In the football field. With an iron bar. Again, she had to force the words to die on her tongue.
Samantha Blake
#5. Ooh, big day in town for our park warden," I said. "They're even making you wear the uniform.
Hayley's mom will be happy. She thinks you look hot in it."
Dad turned as red as his hair.
Mom's laugh floated out from her studio. "Maya Delaney. Leave your father alone.
Kelley Armstrong
#6. Testosterone poisoning can be fatal, Braveheart. (Delaney to Rowan)
Diana Duncan
#7. There." She tossed her hair back while he stared at her. "The sky did not fall, the world did not end, neither of us was struck by lightning or beamed straight to hell. I'm not your damn
sister, Delaney. That ought to make it clear.
Nora Roberts
#8. Ryder Delaney was the one imperfection in my life.He was the bad boy,black sheep,the one your mother always warned you about.He had
only one hard-and-fast rule-Don't Fall In Love
Paige Weaver
#9. He'd been thinking about a lot of things lately, things that would
never happen, things it was best not to think about. Things like waking up with Delaney every morning for the rest of his life and watching her hair turn
gray.
Rachel Gibson
#10. I've tended to find that myths of the near future give people the ability to really kind of explore the present, so say for example if look at William Gibson and his book Neuromancer or if you look at J.G. Ballard or Samuel Delaney those are probably three of my favorite writers in that genre.
DJ Spooky
#11. Asshat! You Darth Vadered me!" (Delaney to Rowan)
Diana Duncan
#12. I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.
Herbie Mann
#13. New hair, new clothes-the classic relationship break-up makeover, Jake said.
Delaney stared at him for a beat. In a way, he was right. She was breaking up with Sam. He just didn't know it.
Sarah Mayberry
#14. I think ... I think its always been you who was dying,- Delaney
Megan Miranda
#15. I love you, Torrey Delaney. You don't have to say it back to me, but I love you. I didn't believe life was worth living until I met you. I'm so, so happy I was wrong.
Jane Harvey-Berrick
#16. Delaney grinned. 'I was hoping you'd ask. I need one of your Russian
Rachel Amphlett
#17. Most black leaders, whether left, right or center, from Frederick Douglas and Martin Delaney on in the middle of the 19th century have not even wondered about the merits of the capitalist system.
Henry Louis Gates
#18. Most things look better from a distance ... And as a matter of fact, so do most people. - The Spook, pg 435
Joseph Delaney
#19. Poker is war. People pretend it is a game."
~Doyle Brunson
Kiara Delaney
#20. There was more than one type of guilt. You might do something horrible that you later regretted. But you could also feel guilty for something you'd not done!
Joseph Delaney
#21. Love is a delusion that binds mortals to their fates.
Joseph Delaney
#22. You're delusional to think that I could ever love someone as damaged as you. Hell, no one could.
Nina D'Angelo
#23. that's the story of how Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland forever and banished the Devil to England. Some people say that explains why there has always been such trouble between England and Ireland. The Devil stirs it up.
Frank Delaney
#25. If you ask someone out and they say no, try it again in a few minutes wearing sunglasses and smoking a cigarette.
Rob Delaney
#26. Alice was standing in the gloom, with just the toes of her pointy shoes poking out into the sunlight.
Joseph Delaney
#27. A thing doesn't have to be true, he said, for a person to get joy out of it. What it has to be is not evil or malicious.
Frank Delaney
#28. 'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything in the book moves as it should, in the manner of a piece by Bach or Mozart.
Frank Delaney
#29. Everyone has his price. It's just a case of making an offer that pleases him but doesn't hurt you too much. - Dad
Joseph Delaney
#30. What on earth could be worse than a malevolent witch?' I demanded.
'I belong to the best bit of the dark... I'm an earth-witch who serves Pan. My magic comes from the ground; it comes from the elements; it comes from the Earth itself. The truth is, that's what I was always meant to be.
Joseph Delaney
#31. On stage, I'm me. I'm a husband, I'm a dad, I'm a guy, I'm a mess - but I am a cohesive thing that you recognize as one human entity saying these things that he generally believes.
Rob Delaney
#32. The point about words is - the better you use them, the stronger is the thought that wears them.
Frank Delaney
#33. I understood that now. I wished I could have understood it then. I wished I could have said something in that last moment, before he let go.
He'd told me it was okay. His last words to me.
Why couldn't they have been my last words to him?
Kelley Armstrong
#34. If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never submitted a piece of work without reading it aloud.
Frank Delaney
#35. In the ambiguity and shifting playing field of adult life, I often wish I could just fill in a dot and have someone say "Yes" and hand me a chicken leg, or "No" and slap me with an old fish.
Rob Delaney
#36. Never apologize for someone you love, he says quietly. It makes you look like a prick.
J.P. Delaney
#37. Just one thing worse than the dark, ain't there? And that's what's inside it - the things that call it home ...
Joseph Delaney
#39. Suki Bridgewater:
I shivered, despite the heat from the sun. "I'm married," I whispered. "I love my husband.
Sofia Grey
#40. But if everything's already decided, then what's the point of living? - Tom, pg 437
Joseph Delaney
#41. On Twitter, I just want to make you laugh at all costs.
Rob Delaney
#42. Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't - the enemies of contentment.
Frank Delaney
#43. I'm not afraid of the darkness outside.
It's the darkness inside houses I don't like.
Shelagh Delaney
#44. To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.
Frank Delaney
#45. But I also know in standup, there's nowhere to hide. You get on stage and you deliver, or you are eviscerated and you are thrown into a pile of bodies at the bottom of a mountain.
Rob Delaney
#46. Everything is really good and I'm blessed.
Kim Delaney
#49. A woman's got as much right -and more cause - to get drunk than any man
Shelagh Delaney
#50. Willful ignorance or resistance to alleged facts has been a big ingredient in any success I've had.
Rob Delaney
#51. People moved in across the street and are immediately cutting down a huge tree. Their toothbrushes will know my buttonhole.
Rob Delaney
#52. Breathe, rabbit. I'll only hurt you if you do something stupid."
I cleared my throat "Define stupid".
When his lips pulled back, I flinched, only to realize that I'd amused him.
"Have you been locked in a tower your whole life?
Kat Falls
#54. Whatever it cost, I had to do what was right. Better oblivion. Better to be nothing than live to experience that.
Joseph Delaney
#55. For a moment I envied them their religion. They were lucky to have something they could all believe in together.
Joseph Delaney
#56. I'm a comedian at the beginning and the end of the day. I'm not affiliated with any campaign, nor do I generally find politics interesting enough to plan to be involved.
Rob Delaney
#57. But don't you see, I say, I don't care. I don't care what you've done or how bad you are. Edward, we belong together. We both know it. Now I know your worst secrets and you know mine. Isn't that what you've always wanted? For us to be completely honest with each other?
J.P. Delaney
#58. Even a strong man can succumb to the wiles of a pretty girl with pointy shoes.
Joseph Delaney
#59. The best thing you can do when you're not feeling funny is go out and get more stimuli from the world, get out and walk around, read a book, go talk to some birds or a dog and replenish the well, as it were.
Rob Delaney
#60. If you never make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.
If you make the same mistakes more than once, you're not paying attention.
Ben Delaney
#61. I always work out. I do Pilates and yoga.
Kim Delaney
#62. I never thought the touch of another person could make the nerves jangle and dance beneath my skin. It was like I had slept the last few months away and now, suddently, I was waking up.
Shannon Delaney
#64. I watched the tears run down her cheeks and start to drip from the end of her chin. One part of me wanted to put my arms round her but I daren't. Do that and I'd never be able to let her go.
Joseph Delaney
#65. But I know he loves me. I know he needs our games, that they answer some deep-seated hunger in him.
J.P. Delaney
#66. Sometimes it's as if I can shrink away to nothing. Sometimes I feel as pure and perfect as a ghost. The hunger, the headaches, the dizziness - these are the only things that are real.
J.P. Delaney
#67. Any attempt to ease guilt by justification is false. That the crimes of another appease none of one's own offenses. That, if one is being truthful, the greater pain is that of the offender. I know now that I would much rather be a victim of violence than a perpetrator
Frank Delaney
#68. Make it easier for your citizens to be healthy and smart and they will save you in ways you have yet to imagine. Make it difficult and your nation will swirl history's toilet on its way to hell.
Rob Delaney
#69. But one day, when Toby is old enough, I will take down a shoe box from a shelf where it is kept, and I will tell him again the story of his sister, Isabel Margaret Cavendish, the girl who came before.
J.P. Delaney
#70. Don't let anyone bring you back to earth, keep shooting for the stars.
David J. Delaney
#71. But it never really occurred to me to ask myself whether this was what I wanted too,
J.P. Delaney
#72. I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.
Frank Delaney
#73. My dad once told me that women know things that men don't. That sometimes they have a certain look in their eyes, but when you see it, you should never ask them what they're thinking. If you do they might tell you something you don't want to hear.
Joseph Delaney
#74. That was Emma - she'd have enjoyed knowing she had something like that, something that could blow her whole fucking life and mine apart if it came out. Her little bit of power.
J.P. Delaney
#75. For every reason you give me for why we shouldn't be together, I can find ten more reasons that we should. No obstacle is too big to overcome when two people care about each other. Love doesn't see limitations; it sees possibilities.
Delaney Cameron
#76. Then Bony Lizzie walked right past me, knelt by General Stanton, and cut off his thumb bones. I had to remind myself that his cries of pain were just the after-effects of his body since his soul was long gone.
Joseph Delaney
#77. Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die.
Frank Delaney
#79. If you have an opinion on what other adults do consensually with other adults when they take their pants off, you're a weirdo.
Rob Delaney
#80. Grief, I discovered, feels not so very different from defeat. And
J.P. Delaney
#81. We do well to remember dolphins. If a dolphin ails, then others come alongside and nudge him gently through the waters; because a dolphin must keep moving in order to keep breathing. We all have need of our dolphins alongside us from time to time.
Frank Delaney
#82. Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire.
Rob Delaney
#83. Want to know what else he said?" Rafe put his lips near my ear. "That with the right guy, you'd turn wild"
I shoved him hard. He was laughing before he even hit the ground. I shot to my feet and glared at him. "You're disgusting
Kat Falls
#84. You're my wife, Suki. That gives me every right.
Sofia Grey
#85. It's such a no-no. Seismologists won't even talk about it!
Kate Delaney
#86. He's like a cookie; rough around the edges, soft on the inside. He's such a surprising guy.
Delia Delaney
#88. Grief is like a long journey
You wake each morning in a different place
David J. Delaney
#89. Nothing passes. Everything stays with you. Everything makes it's mark.
Shelagh Delaney
#90. [On England:] In this country there are only two seasons, winter and winter.
Shelagh Delaney
#92. The door cracked open. "Decent?" Rafe asked.
"Yep"
"Damn." He pushed it open.
"If you're hoping to see something, the trick is to not knock first."
"That would be wrong," he said as he walked in. "The trick is to hope you say 'no, but come in anyway.'"
"Ah.
Kelley Armstrong
#93. There's always good news wrapped up in bad news.
Frank Delaney
#94. Finally there was a thick, warm cloak with a red clasp shaped like a rose. Grimalkin must have had these made in the County and hidden them among her own possessions. I was still half asleep; the last thing I wanted
Joseph Delaney
#96. Women have to air it out, hold on to it, work on it.
Kim Delaney
#97. I love gay people. Or as I sometimes call them, 'people.'
Rob Delaney
#98. It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth.
Frank Delaney
#99. Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.
Frank Delaney
#100. The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.
Frank Delaney
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