Top 100 Doolittle's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I'm interested in wartime stories, as I think it's important to remember what the soldiers went through.
Eliza Doolittle
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. I will be free,
no lover's kiss
to bind me to earth,
no bliss of love
to counteract
actual bliss.
Hilda Doolittle
#8. I testify
to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven
and walls of colour,
the colonnades of jasper.
Hilda Doolittle
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. When the shingles hissed
in the rain incendiary,
other values were revealed to us
Hilda Doolittle
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Ah love is bitter and sweet,
but which is more sweet
the bitterness or the sweetness,
none has spoken it.
Hilda Doolittle
#20. I could not accept from wisdom
what love taught,
woman is perfect.
Hilda Doolittle
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. Lovers may come and go,
there was the memory of blood,
the low call.
Hilda Doolittle
#26. 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
#27. The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone
is yours if you surrender
sterile logic, trivial reason.
Hilda Doolittle
#28. I'd love to work with Pharrell, but it's annoying because everyone is working with him now, and you don't want to be like, 'Oh, I want to work with you, too.' But he is the dream.
Eliza Doolittle
#29. Fashion changes. Everyone in fashion changes. I think it's important to change it up and reinvent yourself every now and again.
Eliza Doolittle
#30. My music is not a particular genre. It's not bubblegum or cheese. It's just good songs, pop songs. It's just my songs.
Eliza Doolittle
#31. Bullying wasn't okay in elementary school and it isn't okay now, especially when it comes in the form of a U.S. Supreme Court decision.
John Doolittle
#32. My favorite judge is Simon! He's so real with ya - Even when I don't like
Melinda Doolittle
#33. I think just wear whatever makes you feel comfortable. Your feet could get sweaty without socks, if that's what you mean. I personally like to keep socks on even through the summer because it looks cute.
Eliza Doolittle
#34. Constantly travelling means I don't always get to eat well - so it's probably a good idea for me to do some exercise.
Eliza Doolittle
#35. As soon as something becomes 'trendy,' I go off it. I hate the idea of being a sheep and just following a look because I've been told it's fashionable. Individuality makes the world a much more interesting place.
Eliza Doolittle
#36. When I first played live, I would shake with fear, and my voice would tremble. But I do it for the love of it. There's nothing I love more than playing live.
Eliza Doolittle
#37. Young people, our rights and the things we care about, have been taken away because it doesn't really matter to the politicians whether or not we have them. We're just another demographic to try and please, but there's no point if we aren't voting.
Eliza Doolittle
#38. My mum taught me that bodies are bodies, and they come in all shapes and sizes - we should be free about that. My legs are a bit dangly, and my knees point inwards. Everyone has insecurities, but I try not to focus on them. It's important to be confident with what you've got.
Eliza Doolittle
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.
John Doolittle
#42. There are lots of people whose style I admire, although I'd never dress like them. Chloe Sevigny is probably the most stylish woman ever, and Lady Gaga is amazing - it's fun to watch what she's going to wear next.
Eliza Doolittle
#43. 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
#45. 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
#46. I am not a very timid type. It's very important to some people, but not to me. I have a simple philosophy: worry about those things you can fix. It you can't fix it, don't worry about it; accept it and do the best you can.
Jimmy Doolittle
#47. According to various polls conducted, the single most important issue in last week's election was not the Iraq War, not the War on Terror, not even the economy. It was the cultural war.
John Doolittle
#48. I don't like how women's bodies are Page 3 news. I just don't think that's big news. Women's bodies are women's bodies, and that's that. And I love to see beautiful - the female form in great art and great photography.
Eliza Doolittle
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. You will not see
that desire begets
love,
until it all flames
into one concise
and metallic blaze.
Hilda Doolittle
#54. After all, the lies did serve to keep something from somebody, and the somebody was us.
Jerome Doolittle
#55. Doolittle was a major influence on the Seattle grunge scene, which emerged in the early 1990s.
Joey Santiago
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. I love' Les Mis,' and I owe it a lot, because I wouldn't have been born without it.
Eliza Doolittle
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. I need someone to talk to. Well, not exactly talk. I need someone to listen.
Cait Doolittle
#65. The only thing that holds true happiness is that moment when you're in it. Nothing can be controlled.
Eliza Doolittle
#66. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. Being around all the animals in the film Dr.Doolittle made me one too.
Samantha Eggar
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#81. 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
#82. Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.
Loretta Lynn
#83. 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
#84. Ardent
yet chill and formal,
how I ache
to tempt a chisel
as a sculptor.
Hilda Doolittle
#85. No one knows,
the heart of a child,
how it grows
until it is too late.
Hilda Doolittle
#86. 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
#87. The function and Navy in any future war will be to support the dominant air arm.
Jimmy Doolittle
#88. 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
#89. I definitely can't live without eyeliner but a good way to get by is to decorate your eye lashes!
Eliza Doolittle
#90. I don't really go out partying, but I'm definitely a social butterfly.
Eliza Doolittle
#91. 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
#92. Not God
with wine,
nor death,
nor hate for a cry,
but God with a song
Hilda Doolittle
#93. Love that I bear
within my breast
how is my armour melted
how my heart
Hilda Doolittle
#94. 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
#95. Thanks to President Bush and Republican principles, businesses now have more confidence to hire workers.
John Doolittle
#96. 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
#97. Fall the deep curtains,
delicate the weave,
fair the thread.
Hilda Doolittle
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. Light threatens, is active, is gone,
so it is with a song.
Hilda Doolittle
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