Top 100 Dennis Quotes
#1. What is a "canty day", Dennis?'
'I've never troubled to ask. Something like hogmanay, I expect.'
'What is that?'
'People being sick on the pavement in Glasgow.'
'Oh.
Evelyn Waugh
#2. It was not a healthy marriage for long time. It was never about another man, it was about what my and Dennis's relationship could not sustain.
Meg Ryan
#3. Writing songs with Brian and performing them with Al Jardine, Dennis Wilson, Carl Wilson, David Marks, Bruce Johnston and many other brilliant musicians over the years is my legacy, and something of which I am very proud and protective.
Mike Love
#4. I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, 'When I'm president ... and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude.'
Jon Stewart
#5. As Dennis Lindley had argued, if someone attaches a prior probability of zero the hypothesis that the moon is made of green cheese, "then the whole armies of astronauts coming back bearing green cheese cannot convince him.
Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
#6. Dennis Lewis has a deep understanding of the central importance of breathing, in both its physical and spiritual dimensions
John Welwood
#7. To spend this particular year reading essays to Dennis Robertson as one's supervisor, and, simultaneously, enjoying membership of the group round Keynes was indeed an intellectual treat.
James Meade
#8. I've known Dennis Kucinich for a long time, and I don't think I have illusions about him. Sometimes I find him pompous, male chauvinistic, intellectually unbending. But he is a good man, and a serious one.
Marianne Williamson
#9. It's all saturated in sweat, pubes, and vegan farts!" Dennis
Michelle Garza
#10. Dennis Erickson drove to my home and asked me to become a Miami Hurricane. There was no way in hell I wasn't going.
Warren Sapp
#11. Once upon a time there was a girl named Debbie Jacobs and a boy named Teddy Dennis.
Rick Remender
#12. The glory of American television is Dennis Franz.
Hugh Laurie
#13. Where else but the NBA could people like Bill Russell, Spencer Haywood, Ricky Barry, Dennis Rodman, and Allen Iverson come in and be allowed to be who they are?
Bill Walton
#14. The ageless Dennis Wise, now in his thirties.
Martin Tyler
#15. Esperanza handed him a slip of paper. "Here's the office number for Susan Lex, Dennis's older sister." Myron read the number like it was in code and might mean something. "I had another thought.
Harlan Coben
#16. I feel that Dennis Rodman has become a problem. He will be more of a problem than an asset. Of course, he can prove me wrong.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#17. Once inside, Dennis almost keeled over from the smell of cooked cabbage. Why was it that any girl he took out had a house with an incredible smell?
Paul Zindel
#18. The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
Larry Bird
#19. Why it's been left to me to smooth things over, I don't know. Dennis Rodman, of all people. Keeping us safe is really not my job; it's the black guy's [Obama's] job. But I'll tell you this: If I don't finish in the top three for the next Nobel Peace Prize, something's seriously wrong.
Dennis Rodman
#20. Sheriff Dennis lifts an Ole Miss coffee mug off the desk and spits tobacco juice into it. "I like spitting on the Rebels," he says distractedly.
Greg Iles
#21. I know, when I look into the eyes of my own children, the look of wonder when I speak of life back in the '60s. That's why the Rolling Stones are such a hit even in their 60s, why Dennis Hopper is so compelling, even when he's making pitches for something unhip as long-term financial planning.
Chris Matthews
#22. I painted my toenails before Dennis Rodman. One time at training camp, I stubbed my toe and the nail came loose. My mom gave me some toenail hardener, and I painted over it. I scored 40-something points that night, so it became a ritual. Paint my toenails, score 40 points.
Shaquille O'Neal
#24. Like Noel Brown and Scotty, they recorded as the Chosen Few, and I recorded as Dennis Brown then.
Dennis Brown
#25. My friend, Dennis Mathis, was reading Eastern European and Japanese experimental writers, and I brought the Latin American writers to his attention, so we exchanged books and bounced off one another.
Sandra Cisneros
#26. As Dennis Green used to say, there really is a time for pay and a time to play. And right now we're in the time for pay. That's just the reality of it.
Brian Billick
#27. My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.
Gilbert Hernandez
#28. I've been checking with people back in South Florida to see if Hurricane Dennis is going to whack my house, and the consensus of the experts seems to be: No, it will not, unless it does, in which case, yes. So I'm feeling really calm over here in London.
Dave Barry
#29. Dennis had just kissed her once, and she was screaming for a hamburger.
Paul Zindel
#30. As always when she saw the kind and dreamy eyes of Dennis Mira, her heart gave a little tug. Just something about him, she thought, with his cardigans and mussed hair, bemused smile.
J.D. Robb
#31. We had probably our best ever Player of the Year Dance last week. You elected Dennis Wise as Player of the Year. Dennis accepted his award mimicking Vialli, whereupon Zola shouted 'Speak English', Dennis switched to his normal Cockney voice only for Zola to shout 'You're still not speaking English'.
Ken Bates
#32. That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
Ken Thompson
#33. Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes,
Dennis Rodman
#34. The good thing about Dennis [ Mathis] is, even though he's a white, he respected that I was doing something quirky with my English. He loved it when I would mix up the Americanisms and say, "That's water over the dam."
Sandra Cisneros
#35. The original Beach Boys are Brian, Dennis and Carl Wilson, Mike Love, and Alan Jardine.
Mike Love
#36. Dennis Thatcher, husband of Margaret Thatcher, when asked who wore the pants in his house, said "I do, and I also wash and iron them." I only like two kinds of men; domestic and foreign.
Mae West
#37. Mr. Dennis received this part of the scheme with a wry face, observing that as a general principle he objected to women altogether, as being unsafe and slippery persons on whom there was no calculating with any certainty, and who were never in the same mind for four-and-twenty hours at a stretch.
Charles Dickens
#38. I don't believe in burning holy books, but I am organizing a protest. I'll be burning all my Dennis Miller VHS cassettes as a special protest. I don't want to hear the introduction 'you may have seen our next comedian on the Hannity show'.
Andy Kindler
#40. I don't know if it's entirely fair to blame [Dennis Wilson] early death and complete self-destruction on his involvement with Charles Manson, but it was certainly a factor. It affected him psychologically and emotionally.
Karina Longworth
#41. If you had of told me age 10 that in 19 years time I would be on a stage in Salford performing with Les Dennis in a sitcom I had written, I would have believed you.
Pippa Evans
#42. 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
#43. Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila.
Douglas Adams
#44. For me, the Dennis Wilson story is a quintessential You Must Remember This story because it's one of these stories that people never talk about, don't really think about, and it's forgotten within this major thing that is thought to be this cataclysmic event of the 20th century.
Karina Longworth
#46. He wants Obama to do one thing, call him ... He said, if you can, Dennis, I don't want to do war. I don't want to do war. He said that to me.
Dennis Rodman
#47. As Dennis Covington has written, "Mystery is not the absence of meaning, but the presence of more meaning than we can comprehend." 7-20
Philip Yancey
#48. The bottom line is that Dennis Brown is alive and well, and he's got two lungs and they're kicking and I'm still spitting out them notes.
Dennis Brown
#49. I've always liked Dennis Chambers, he's real flashy.
Travis Barker
#50. Glen Rice is a wonderful man. He's a wonderful guy, but you want her to be with somebody like [Dennis] Rodman getting up in there. Pushing her guts up into the back of her head
Mike Tyson
#51. Dennis Murray is a wonderful Golf Professional who is personable and skillful as an instructor. Dennis helped me work on my golf swing for a full week back in the 80's when I was still playing the PGA Tour. His instruction was great and helped my game very much.
Jerry Pate
#52. In 'Hell Ride,' I play a biker - it's about the bikers. It's with Dennis Hopper and Michael Madsen, Larry Bishop and myself. We're bikers, and I play Billy Wings; I've got all sorts of wings, and you have to watch the movie to find out what the wings are about.
Vinnie Jones
#53. Well, maybe it's because of the rumors they had going around, you know, they had some rumors about Dennis Brown was in the hospital and all that. Well, that is all bull!
Dennis Brown
#54. But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.
Neil Innes
#55. Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!
Gilbert Hernandez
#56. Celebrating love, wherever it is found" (Trevor Dennis). I'm using this sermon title as the essence of my novel
Trevor Dennis
#57. I like Jon Stewart. He's not as obnoxious as Dennis Miller, whom I really can't stand.
Tom Lehrer
#58. Dennis, please. I don't know what-"
"Shut the fuck up, and stop playing me for an idiot. And secondly, and more importantly, I've unearthed some disturbing information about you which I want to discuss in more detail before I fill you with holes.
Simon Kernick
#59. When it comes to soul, Dennis Marcellino redefines the term. His remarkable tone and feel are full of passion and soulful expression.
Bob Carlisle
#61. If Ryan Giggs is worth £20 million, Dennis Bergkamp is worth £100 million
Marco Van Basten
#62. [Dennis Mathis] was very sensitive about keeping the unique way that I spoke English - it had a lot of Mexicanisms or Mexican syntax. So you keep it in because it's adding something unique.
Sandra Cisneros
#63. Of the true mysteries of the universe . . . the one we may never solve is the mystery of other people. This is the underlying subject of all fiction--Who ARE you, and why are you different from me?--from a NYT Book Review review of Since We Fell, by Dennis Lehane
Noah Hawley
#64. Okay, we get it, Jodi-with-an-i," I said, smiling pleasantly up at her. "You have an adorable son and
are still quite available. Dennis, however, is with me. If you would just take your boobs out of my
boyfriend's face, I would deeply appreciate it.
Kristan Higgins
#65. I was probably just trying to be Dennis Miller, but without the vocabulary to actually be Dennis Miller. I guess I was just less interesting than I am now, if I am interesting at all.
Todd Barry
#66. I find everything demoralizing,' Dennis said.
Paul Zindel
#67. There was no life Dennis burned to live except, it seemed, a life that wasn't depressed.
Meg Wolitzer
#68. Wow! said Dennis, as though nobody in their wildest dreams could hope for more than being thrown into a storm-tossed, fathoms-deep lake, and pushed out of it again by a giant sea monster.
J.K. Rowling
#69. This man, commenting on the attack at Dennis Kebab, says we need more racists like Sverre Olsen to regain control of Norway. In the interview the word "racist" is used as a term of respect. Does the accused consider himself a "racist"?
Jo Nesbo
#70. I remarked to Dennis that easily half the code I was writing in Multics was error recovery code. He said, "We left all that stuff out of Unix. If there's an error, we have this routine called panic, and when it is called, the machine crashes, and you holler down the hall, 'Hey, reboot it.'"
Tom Van Vleck
#71. Neither of us, me nor Dennis, is cavalier about a breakup. We both behaved very honorably.
Meg Ryan
#72. Other people like Neil Young and Dennis Hopper, those are just really close knit family friends.
Amber Tamblyn
#73. The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example.
Dave Barry
#74. The funny thing is, Dennis Miller got me back into comedy.
Tommy Chong
#75. It's sad that the BBC is toning down Dennis the Menace for a cartoon series. He is losing his weapons, catapult and peashooter, will no longer pick on Walter the Softy, and his ferocious grimace is to be replaced by a charming, boyish smile.
Simon Hoggart
#77. He's so interesting because you think you know Dennis Hopper, but you don't really know Dennis Hopper. I don't really know Dennis Hopper, I just know him from the silver screen.
Nathan Lane
#78. Dennis to friend: No use crying, Joey. There aren't any grownups around.
Hank Ketcham
#79. Dennis faced him. They glared at each other again. Neither said a word until Dennis set the glasses down, leaned back against the counter, and folded his arms over his chest. "You're an idiot." "Seems to be a common conclusion. You're not my favourite person right now either.
Sloan Parker
#80. How can the Republicans get away with picking their Dennis Kucinich, but when - if the Democrats tried it, all hell would break lose?
Bill Maher
#81. Even with my freewheeling open-mindedness, I couldn't fancy Dennis - a man whose ears looked like two long pieces of bacon.
Caitlin Moran
#82. Happy Birthday, Dad!" exclaimed Dennis and John excitedly. "I don't like birthdays," said Dad.
David Walliams
#83. I think Janeane Garofalo is incredibly funny, and I love Dennis Miller.
Kristen Johnston
#84. I'll saw my hands off before I appear on stage with you and your Orchestra of Gays!' Dennis bellows. 'Do you hear me? I'll saw my hands off!
Paul Murray
#85. Carl, Dennis and Brian are brothers, and Mike Love's a cousin.
Bruce Johnston
#86. Kim Jong Un shaved his eyebrows and got his hair sticking right up. How would you like the leader of your country looking like Lady Gaga? Even Dennis Rodman told him he looks weird.
David Letterman
#87. Dennis hit him with the [Sheri] Tepper. It was a hardback book, six hundred pages of wonder and adventure and a little preachiness mixed in.
Margaret Ball
#88. Dennis Kucinich's politics are more scrambled than Rod Steiger's dream journal.
Dennis Miller
#89. I started writing sketches with Dennis Kelly, who I ended up writing 'Pulling' with. We entered a BBC competition and did quite well, then started writing bits for other people's shows. You wheedle your way in, write pilots and eventually you end up writing a sitcom.
Sharon Horgan
#90. I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.
Gale Gordon
#91. My greatest regret at the passing of America-hating strongman Hugo Chavez is that he didn't live long enough to party with Dennis Rodman.
Rob Lowe
#92. Had I known anything about the elegance of quitting at the right time, I would have made so many people, starting with myself and Dennis, so much happier.
Ann Patchett
#93. On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper - all your choices should be so easy.
Sandra Bernhard
#95. Rather than opera, football is more like ballet or a chess game. You can really see it in a team like Arsenal, especially when Dennis Bergkamp was playing. He seemed to be able to read the game like a chessboard and knew where a player would be several seconds later and put the ball there for him.
Marcus Du Sautoy
#96. She was so clever, Dennis thought, and so kind, and he found the familiar gloom descend upon him.
Nick Hornby
#97. Some of his transactions involved Ada policemen, specifically one Dennis Corvin, whom Gore described as a primary supplier
John Grisham
#98. Oh heck yeah, I totally would love to have a Phantom Dennis in real life.
Charisma Carpenter
#99. After fifteen years I have decided to resign my membership of the Dennis The Menace Fanclub. It
brought me no benefits worth mentioning.
Tony Benn
#100. Every night I get down on my knees and pray that Dennis Kucinich will burst into flames.
Glenn Beck
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