Dortmunder Quotes

#1. At the moment, the discussion concerned global warming. "The reason for global warming," one of them said as Dortmunder leaned his front against the bar somewhere down to the right of them, "is air conditioners.

Donald E. Westlake

#2. Dortmunder and the Major strolled away down the long corridor overlooking customs, with the duty-free shops on one side of the corridor and on the other side the railing where people can stand and look down at their returning relatives and visiting foreign friends being degraded.

Donald E. Westlake

#3. Dortmunder followed Kelp as he carried the tray down along the bar past the regulars, where the third was now saying, The idea of the flat tax is, you just pay the same as one month's rent.

Donald E. Westlake

#4. Cause we they leaders, and they the followers
And we the nut-busters and they the swallowers'

Kanye West

#5. You're never going to get used to walking into a room and have people screaming at you. There's a lot of things that come with the life you could get lost in. But you have to let it be what it is. I've learnt not to take everything too seriously.

Harry Styles

#6. I'm a big fan of Lady Gaga.

Tyra Banks

#7. I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be.

Kristin Davis

#8. I was in Kenya when I read 'Catch-22,' and I associate this book that has nothing to do with Kenya - whenever I think of 'Catch-22,' I think of Nairobi.

D. B. Weiss

#9. Upon seeing the third and final table I realized that most of the people listed would most likely be dead, or come out of these qualifying races with severed limbs of as Revaarn liked to say 'Loose a limb no problem, it'll be amputated and replaced with a robotic one.

Charon Lloyd-Roberts

#10. Gesture will survive whatever kind of light you have. Gesture can triumph over anything because of its narrative content.

Jay Maisel

#11. If we ever opened a meeting with a prayer, silent or otherwise, we would disintegrate.

Jerry Falwell

#12. I hear they make greeting cards now
to thank your therapist ... for NOTHING

Casey Renee Kiser

#13. Learning to choose is hard. Learning to choose well is harder. And learning to choose well in a world of unlimited possibilities is harder still, perhaps too hard.

Barry Schwartz

#14. The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.

Henry David Thoreau

#15. Tales within tales. Dreams within dreams. Pattern on pattern and path beyond path. For such short-lived folks, the human kind seem determined to make things as complicated as possible for themselves.

Juliet Marillier

#16. You talk about the Pro-Life movement being one of the great shames of our nation. I think, if you want number two, I think - I think it's that. I think it's absolute - it's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights.

Jon Stewart

#17. Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you.

Sun Myung Moon

#18. when you learn to trust in yourself, you are actually trusting in the very wisdom that created you.

Wayne Dyer