Dotty Quotes

#1. Dotty (off): HELP!
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Archie: It's all right - just exhibitionism: what we psychiatrists call 'a cry for help'.
Bones: But it was a cry for help.
Archie: Perhaps I'm not making myself clear. All exhibitionism is a crey for help, but a cry for help as such is only exhibitionism.

Tom Stoppard

#2. We need an army of white-haired, wild-eyed radicals cutting a swath against the sexism that crosses our paths. It is a good antidote to the larger community's apparent belief that older women are slightly dotty, grandmotherly, benign souls.

Shari Graydon

#3. She had been impulsive all her life, made decisions without thought for the future, and regretted none of them, however dotty. Looking back, all she regretted were the opportunities missed, either because they had come along at the wrong time or because she had been too timid to grasp them.

Rosamunde Pilcher

#4. I was 16 before I met another passionate collector. One summer, I visited England; a new friend took me calling on his dotty, brilliant old aunt. She occupied a quaint house in Kent. Its walls were lined with glass-fronted cases full of what? Ancient shoe buckles.

Allan Gurganus

#5. The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox to the dotty, that we can hardly wonder at its yielding a more bounteous harvest of gobbledygook than the rest of the world put together.

Peter Medawar

#6. The next day I picked up my electric guitar and amp at a tag sale. Grandma Dotty loves tag sales, and somehow she managed to bargain with the guy who was selling them, until we paid just three dollars

James Patterson

#7. Some stresses are unavoidable - it's just part of life. One of the things I do to avoid stress is not work with people that I don't really like or drive me crazy.

Dan Hill

#8. Monumental is not a matter of size.

Albert Paley

#9. That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.

Studs Terkel

#10. I do fairly represent Middle Eastern women.

Shohreh Aghdashloo

#11. The idea is that it will tell you where the importance lies, because it will be able to show you what impacts you in your everyday life.

Michael A. Hess

#12. Haven stared at the door once he was gone. "He seems strange."
"Yeah, I've noticed. It's a bit scary. He's resolved these days, like he has some fucking grand plan to save us all."
"Do we need to be saved?"
"Don't we always?

J.M. Darhower

#13. It's a long way from Graceland across Jordan to the Promised Land, but Jesus finally came to lead him home.

Merle Haggard

#14. Get back in my cot, girl," said Gilsa. "You're sickly."
No, I'm not," said Ani.
Oh, no? Well, maybe stubbornness is a sickness, did you ever think of that?

Shannon Hale

#15. UCLA psychology professor emeritus Albert Mehrabian discovered that face-to-face communication can be broken down into three components: words, tone of voice, and body language.

John C. Maxwell