Doggone Quotes

#1. New Orleans is just a doggone fun place to be.

Archie Manning

#2. There's nineteen men livin' in my neighborhood, Eighteen of them are fools and the one ain't no doggone good.

Bessie Smith

#3. That's my credo - My work is play. I don't complain about work. I enjoy it. I like the feeling of being able to lay down at night and you're so doggone tired, you're just hoping to get undressed before you fall asleep.

Buck Brannaman

#4. I went off to Harvard Law School for six weeks, and then I said, 'Doggone this, it's not what I want to do.' I remember when I told my dad I was leaving law school, and I wanted to go into football. He said, 'Be a good coach.'

Marv Levy

#5. What's important now is that I have fun doggone.

KayeC Jones

#6. If I had coached in high school for 60 years, I would have loved it. Getting to the top was not a goal. I welcomed the opportunities, but I just believed do the best doggone job you can, and good things will happen.

Marv Levy

#7. An idea? An idea won't get you nothing but another idea. You need money, cash, to make anything happen in this doggone world.

Nathan McCall

#8. We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

Carl Sandburg

#9. Bergeron's epitaph for the planet, i remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the grand canyon for the flying-saucer people to find was this:
WE COULD HAVE SAVED IT,
BUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAP.
only he didn't say doggone.

Kurt Vonnegut

#10. We could have saved it, but we were too doggone cheap.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#11. You adhere to a philosophy, but part of the philosophy I have is that I don't want to be too doggone inflexible that I miss a good player.

Marv Levy

#12. Doggone thing could make a preacher cuss." I yanked out the muffin pan and slammed the oven shut.

Lois Lavrisa

#13. This guitar is such a pal. It's a psychiatrist. It's a doggone bartender. It's a housewife. This guy is everything. Whenever I find that I've got a problem, I'll go pick my guitar up and play. It's the greatest pal in the whole world.

Les Paul

#14. The devil can be a clown of prizes in moments like these. Moments of knowing you've ventured too far down the wrong path and all you can do is accept more prizes ...

J.M. August

#15. They seemed to be together as one, somewhere else in a place that was lighter than air.

Jess C. Scott

#16. Here's my formula: I usually start with a joke or story to catch the audience's attention; then I tell them what I am going to tell them, I tell them, and then I tell them what I just told them.

Ronald Reagan

#17. I've read hundreds of cookbooks. For my money, they are the bird.

Colonel Sanders

#18. Mere adequacy is never adequate.

John Lanchester

#19. Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance but eccentricity and a wholly unfamiliar sense of pleasure called joy.

James Hillman

#20. There was a time when I looked to other people for recognition, because I didn't have enough confidence to trust my own judgment. Now I'm not looking for reassurance, because I realize how fickle people are. My own strength is the best I can have.

Annie Lennox

#21. In an era when man can no longer dash out of his cave and slay a mammoth, he simply slips on his Lycra and goes for a run.

Phil Hewitt

#22. I have a little nursery rhyme for all you children out there, something even the Godfather can understand. 'You can prance and you can dance, but when it comes to relations, keep it in your pants.

Kurt Angle

#23. Action without prayer thins out into something very exterior. A prayerless life can result in effective action and accomplish magnificent things, but if there is no developed interiority, the action never enters into the depth and intimacy of relationships.

Eugene H. Peterson