Top 100 Doolittle Quotes
#1. Being around all the animals in the film Dr.Doolittle made me one too.
Samantha Eggar
#2. I remember seeing war hero Jimmy Doolittle fly a Gee Bee racer there. He was my childhood hero. Many years later, I was lucky enough to go hunting with him.
Wally Schirra
#3. Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.
Joey Santiago
#4. HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?
DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.
George Bernard Shaw
#5. Doolittle once told me that he wasn't afraid of me. He was afraid of what I might become in spite of myself. His fears were coming true. "Power
Ilona Andrews
#6. You need a name."
I covered the receiver for a moment. "We need a team name."
"Hunters," Raphael said.
"Valiant Knights of the Fur," Dali said.
"Justice Group," Jim said. "Since Justice League is taken."
"Fools." Doolittle shook his head.
"Fools," I said into the receiver.
Ilona Andrews
#7. Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.
Loretta Lynn
#8. I've never seen such a collection of idiots in my whole life.' Doolittle shook his head. 'If you participate in this lunacy, y'all will get yourselves killed. Then don't come crying to me.'
Now that would be a neat trick.
Ilona Andrews
#9. In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.
Stanley Hauerwas
#10. I got my love of animals from the Dr. Doolittle books and my love of Africa from the Tarzan novels. I remember my mum taking me to the first Tarzan film, which starred Johnny Weissmuller, and bursting into tears. It wasn't what I had imagined at all.
Jane Goodall
#11. I'm in the woods with Dr. Doolittle.
Joe Teti
#12. If the lot of you survives, Curran will fray the skin off your backs,' Doolittle said.
'That's what I always love about you, Doctor.' Raphael grinned. 'You're a cup-halfway-full kind of guy. All flowers and sunshine.
Ilona Andrews
#13. Eliza was my first name for two reasons. My dad was reading 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' which features the maid Eliza in it, when I was born. Then there was Eliza Doolittle from 'My Fair Lady' and 'Pygmalion.' My mum always loved the name, and I got called Eliza Doolittle a lot, so it stuck, basically.
Eliza Doolittle
#14. We have to get the Diamond. And Cesare's head."
They looked at me.
"Why the head?" Doolittle asked.
"Because it's easy to carry and I can torture it for a long time." And I didn't just say it out loud, did I? I checked their faces. Yep, I did.
Ilona Andrews
#15. Can I be of assistance?" Saiman asked.
"Have you ever delivered a child?" Doolittle asked.
"Yes, I have."
"Good. We have to perform a C-section. One of her unborn is trying to kill the other."
"Fascinating," Saiman said. [p.304]
Ilona Andrews
#16. If I had a chance to do things over again, I might not start singing. It was my husband Doolittle's idea. He pushed me out there, the booger. And I'm out there now, so I might as well make the best of it.
Loretta Lynn
#17. Doolittle nodded to one of his assistants. The short, slight woman approached Roman's cot. "We're going to put you in your own private room." "Is this a code for killing me?" Roman asked. "Because I won't be easy to take down."
Roman the Volhv)))
Ilona Andrews
#18. When I lost my husband [Oliver "Doolittle" Lynn], I just didn't want to work so hard anymore. I hate that I didn't quit things a lot more before he was gone. I stayed home for six years to take care of him but, at some point, I also felt I had to go back to work.
Loretta Lynn
#19. There are some liberals eager to embrace a culture void of morals, but the majority of America is made up of honest, hard-working families who turned out in droves to protect the traditional way of life.
John Doolittle
#20. I do embarrassing things all the time, but I don't really get embarrassed. It's like I'm unaware of my embarrassing things.
Eliza Doolittle
#22. Lots of people, from what I can see, just want to get into the music business for the glamour of it. But there isn't any, really. It's so up and down this industry, but if you really love it, nothing can stop you.
Eliza Doolittle
#23. The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you haven't.
Jimmy Doolittle
#24. When you would think,
"what was the use of it,"
you'll remember
something you can't grasp
and you'll wonder
what it was.
Hilda Doolittle
#25. I like to wear colourful clothes because they make me feel happy: short-shorts with funky tights and big jumpers are what I'm into. And I wear most things with hi-top trainers - I'm not a huge fan of heels.
Eliza Doolittle
#27. The last four years have not diluted the memory or weakened the resolve of our citizens. Four years later, our hearts still hurt for the families whose loved ones were murdered that day.
John Doolittle
#28. I myself have seen the floating ships
And nothing will ever be the same
The shouts,
The harrowing voices within the house.
I stand apart with an army:
My mind is graven with ships.
Hilda Doolittle
#29. I need someone to talk to. Well, not exactly talk. I need someone to listen.
Cait Doolittle
#30. As Americans, we can choose where we work and live, what we drive, which insurance plan is best for us, so why can we not give workers a choice when it comes to their retirement?
John Doolittle
#31. Doing gigs is great, but when you come together for a production in the theatre, that is something I have a lot of respect for.
Eliza Doolittle
#32. If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to so so from the neck up instead of from the neck down.
Jimmy Doolittle
#33. I love' Les Mis,' and I owe it a lot, because I wouldn't have been born without it.
Eliza Doolittle
#34. I have always been a Peter Blake fan and love street art and graffiti. I really like this street-art collective called Faile. They're from Brooklyn and make these prints of beautiful women.
Eliza Doolittle
#35. The Christos-image
is most difficult to disentangle
from its art-craft junk-shop
paint-and-plaster medieval jumble
of pain-worship and death-symbol.
Hilda Doolittle
#36. I want to write songs people can sing along to. I can think of nothing more exciting than travelling the world and playing to audiences and having them sing your words along with you.
Eliza Doolittle
#37. Every time I get photographed, it's the legs. So I've insured them for a lot, for £5 million each. Is that enough?
Eliza Doolittle
#38. After all, the lies did serve to keep something from somebody, and the somebody was us.
Jerome Doolittle
#39. You will not see
that desire begets
love,
until it all flames
into one concise
and metallic blaze.
Hilda Doolittle
#40. The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be controlled.
Eliza Doolittle
#41. Light threatens, is active, is gone,
so it is with a song.
Hilda Doolittle
#42. Alas, day, you brought light,
You trailed splendour
You showed us god:
I salute you, most precious one,
But I go to a new place,
Another life.
Hilda Doolittle
#43. Fall the deep curtains,
delicate the weave,
fair the thread.
Hilda Doolittle
#44. I extend my deepest gratitude to our Armed Forces and first responders serving both at home and abroad in the war against terrorism.
John Doolittle
#45. Thanks to President Bush and Republican principles, businesses now have more confidence to hire workers.
John Doolittle
#46. Democrats were simply hoping to win some political points by getting their outlandish rhetoric published in the newspapers and heard on the talk shows.
John Doolittle
#47. Love that I bear
within my breast
how is my armour melted
how my heart
Hilda Doolittle
#48. Not God
with wine,
nor death,
nor hate for a cry,
but God with a song
Hilda Doolittle
#49. I don't really go out partying, but I'm definitely a social butterfly.
Eliza Doolittle
#50. That way of inspiration
is always open,
and open to everyone;
it acts as go-between, interpreter,
it explains symbols of the past
in to-day's imagery.
Hilda Doolittle
#51. No man will be present in those mysteries,
yet all men will kneel,
no man will be potent,
important,
yet all men will feel
what it is to be a woman.
Hilda Doolittle
#52. The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.
Jimmy Doolittle
#53. No one knows,
the heart of a child,
how it grows
until it is too late.
Hilda Doolittle
#54. Ardent
yet chill and formal,
how I ache
to tempt a chisel
as a sculptor.
Hilda Doolittle
#55. I've featured in some soundtracks in the past, and I would love to do more. I love great soundtracks to movies. Quentin Tarantino always picks amazing soundtracks, so I would like to do something for him or write a song for him.
Eliza Doolittle
#56. I'm inspired by whatever I see, feel, hear about, watch on the TV ... anything. It can be something that I really need to get off my chest so I write or something a friend is going through which gets my thoughts going.
Eliza Doolittle
#58. I'm really into laces; I always accessorize with shoe laces whether I wear them as a belt, or attached to my shorts or in my hair or as a bracelet.
Eliza Doolittle
#59. There is always one or a few artists who appeal to all sort of people, and, of course, I want to be one of those people.
Eliza Doolittle
#60. I definitely can't live without eyeliner but a good way to get by is to decorate your eye lashes!
Eliza Doolittle
#61. Turning the Internet over to the U.N. or some other phony international organization would be a disaster, and I am not willing to stand by and let it happen.
John Doolittle
#62. Lovers may come and go,
there was the memory of blood,
the low call.
Hilda Doolittle
#63. O beautiful white land,
olives and wild anemone and violet
mingled among the shale,
and purple wings
of little winter-butterflies
say, here Psyche, the soul, lies.
Hilda Doolittle
#64. The United States invented the Internet and it has been our gift to the world, paid for by our taxpayers. The U.N.'s desire to take that gift as a means of increasing its power must be stopped.
John Doolittle
#65. As a writer, I try to do different things, but I'm not going to become a darker artist or turn into Radiohead overnight. I don't think that's my style.
Eliza Doolittle
#66. I learnt that if I want to make any difference, or changes to my world, then I've got to be involved. We need passion - that's how things change.
Eliza Doolittle
#67. I could not accept from wisdom
what love taught,
woman is perfect.
Hilda Doolittle
#68. Ah love is bitter and sweet,
but which is more sweet
the bitterness or the sweetness,
none has spoken it.
Hilda Doolittle
#69. Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.
John Doolittle
#70. I tend to write at the piano, but usually the melody and lyrics come first. Like, I'll be in the shower, and I'll start singing, and the melody and the lyric will just come out. Then I'll quickly try to finish the shower, try to remember it, record it on my phone and save it for the studio.
Eliza Doolittle
#71. The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces untouched, I bring thee as offering.
Hilda Doolittle
#72. When I was really little, I wanted to be a taxi driver or a bus driver; I loved the fact that I could play my own music when I wanted. But I can't imagine actually doing that now; I think I'd get bored.
Eliza Doolittle
#73. When the shingles hissed
in the rain incendiary,
other values were revealed to us
Hilda Doolittle
#74. I'm reading Sebastian Faulks's 'Birdsong' at the moment. I read it when I was younger but decided to re-read it, as I remembered really liking it at the time.
Eliza Doolittle
#75. Take what the old-church
found in Mithra's tomb,
candle and script and bell,
take what the new-church spat upon
and broke and shattered.
Hilda Doolittle
#76. I wasn't into sports when I was younger. I was one of those kids who always tried to get a note from the doctor to say I had a cold so I didn't have to go play hockey in bad weather and be miserable.
Eliza Doolittle
#77. You don't sell as many records as you used to because of illegal downloads, but I think there are other ways you can make money through your music. Whether it's through merchandise or teaming up with other companies or brands or whatever, there are ways.
Eliza Doolittle
#78. This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.
John Doolittle
#79. I testify
to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven
and walls of colour,
the colonnades of jasper.
Hilda Doolittle
#80. I have been luckier than the law of averages should allow. I could never be so lucky again.
Jimmy Doolittle
#81. I will be free,
no lover's kiss
to bind me to earth,
no bliss of love
to counteract
actual bliss.
Hilda Doolittle
#82. I think that everyone in this world should be confident in who they are and believe in themselves no matter what.
Eliza Doolittle
#83. Let Love step down,
open the clasped hands,
forfeit the thorny crown,
retrieve the garment
that was whole,
body and spirit one, spirit and soul.
Hilda Doolittle
#84. Could beauty be beaten out,
O youth the cities have sent
to strike at each other's strength,
it is you who have kept her alight.
Hilda Doolittle
#85. I love to make music that makes people feel mood-enhancing, life-affirming brilliance but I just make whatever comes out at the time and sometimes it's up and sometimes it down and sometimes it sideways with a hint of s smile.
Eliza Doolittle
#86. I'm always writing; my phone is full of ideas - melodies and lyrics and stuff.
Eliza Doolittle
#87. In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem.
John Doolittle
#88. I always loved singing. I was always trying to sing in school plays. I was in every one I could be in.
Eliza Doolittle
#89. I was always into pop music, Destiny's Child, songs with catchy music. Even when I was writing when I was younger, it wasn't all about expressing myself; it was just about making fun music.
Eliza Doolittle
#90. Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees ...
Hilda Doolittle
#91. I'm interested in wartime stories, as I think it's important to remember what the soldiers went through.
Eliza Doolittle
#92. It is no madness to say
you will fall, you great cities.
Hilda Doolittle
#93. President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to provide for the country's retirement needs, Social Security would need to be supplemented by personal savings accounts.
John Doolittle
#94. The Beatles and Ray Charles were in the same charts together, and that was just called pop music - it wasn't called soul or rock. The best pop music just stands out as something that's just original, and I think it should all be called pop again.
Eliza Doolittle
#95. Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.
John Doolittle
#96. Passionate grave thought,
belief enhanced,
ritual returned and magic.
Hilda Doolittle
#97. If the U.N. were to be successful in its efforts to control the Internet, countries where human rights records range from questionable to criminal could be put in charge of determining what is and is not allowed to appear online.
John Doolittle
#98. To become an ace a fighter must have extraordinary eyesight, strength, and agility, a huntsman's eye, coolness in a pinch, calculated recklessness, a full measure of courage and occasional luck!
Jimmy Doolittle
#99. The Greeks have snatched up their spears.
They have pointed the helms of their ships
Toward the bulwarks of Troy.
Hilda Doolittle
#100. We don't have to know,only to be:let go the jumble of worn words,reason and vanity.
Hilda Doolittle
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