Top 100 Duane's Quotes
#1. If the material consumption of a fraction of humanity is already harming the planet, is there an alternative path that enables all of humanity to live more lightly upon the Earth while experiencing a higher quality of life?
Duane Elgin
#2. I'm Native American, so it's in my blood to always want brothers and friends. I'm a good brotherhood guy.
Duane Chapman
#3. You can't see fear or lust; you can't photograph someone's anxieties, how disappointment feels. Photographs are approximations.
Duane Michals
#4. Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you've changed, by believing. Once you've changed, other things start to follow. Isn't that the way it works?
Diane Duane
#5. And, all these things need to be coordinated; so we all need to work together, have timers going and everything so we're all coordinated and get this piece of orchestration done.
Duane G. Carey
#6. I'm very hard on the art world just being a big business.
Duane Michals
#7. Duane: We are not enemies! We are Aldishmen! Aumut vaosa -- six years I've longed for a Tainish word from a friendly tongue!
Quigley: Keep longing.
Ashley Cope
#8. I may have one more 'Star Trek' novel in me, but it would be in the old universe, not the new one.
Diane Duane
#9. If the Super Bowl is the ultimate game, how come there is another one next year?
Duane Thomas
#10. I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.
Duane G. Carey
#11. A warp," Nita whispered. "A tunnel through space-time. Are you a white hole?"
It stopped bobbing, stared at her as if she had said something derogatory. (Do I look like a hole?)
Diane Duane
#13. Everybody's under God's planet, and God is the Almighty, the Beginning, the End, the Alpha, the Omega. He's Big Daddy. He gives out these little soldiers and sons and angels and saints to help everybody else get through to him. I'm not the 'Jesus-only or you're going to Hell' kind of guy.
Duane Chapman
#14. Most photographs, to me, are description, but they lack insight.
Duane Michals
#15. What teens will realize is always a mystery to me. I'm still realizing so many things myself, very belatedly, that it seems unwise to think I have any right to be showing people things in hopes that they'll realize them.
Diane Duane
#16. I was in prison for a charge in Texas, murder one. Back in the '70s in Texas, I was there. I heard the shot. I was in the car.
Duane Chapman
#17. A true martial artist, in my books anyways, is someone who is going to do the right thing and lead by example.
Duane Ludwig
#18. Big Stupid leapt up. Little Duane had a gun. Big Stupid punched Little Duane so hard his whole family tree died back to the Middle Ages.
Victor Gischler
#19. If it's the ultimate game, how come they're playing it again next year?
Duane Thomas
#20. And in not learning the rules, I was free. I always say, you're either defined by the medium or you redefine the medium in terms of your needs.
Duane Michals
#21. Duane pulled a chair out for me and claimed the seat adjacent as I sat. Or, I tried to sit. I didn't know quite how to sit. Sitting suddenly felt weird. I was super-conscious of my limbs.
Penny Reid
#22. Well, the rollout of new technology always affects how wizards do business.
Diane Duane
#23. If I was Judge Del Rosario, I would say Ili, of all people, you know better.
Duane Chapman
#24. We live almost completely immersed in a socially constructed reality that so fully absorbs our energy and attention that virtually none remains to experience the wonder of our existence.
Duane Elgin
#25. It'd be a poor kind of world where there was just one explanation for things.
Rhiow
Diane Duane
#26. The difference between a wise man and a fool is a wise man learns his lessons from other people's mistakes and a fool only learns from his own.
Duane "Dog" Chapman
#27. Most of life is a matter of nonessential differences.
Duane Elmer
#28. Don't hog your journey,' Duane recalled telling her. Share your journey with others, and you're a power of example. Think of what you are able to accomplish.
Hoda Kotb
#29. I believe in invisible; I do not believe in visible.
Duane Michals
#30. If you can write, paint, or compose without fear, pain, tears or questions, then you are either very blessed or very bland.
Duane Hewitt
#31. Boredom, Timothy Duane assured me, is nothing more than anger without passion.
Isabel Allende
#32. Develop your talent, man, and leave the world something. Records are really gifts from people. To think that an artist would love you enough to share his music with anyone is a beautiful thing
Duane Allman
#33. I say to all fathers - be as good as you can be- because your sons and daughters will follow in your footsteps.
Duane Chapman
#34. A lot of photographers walk around looking for something 'out there,' but I'm very much interested in what's 'in here.'
Duane Michals
#35. The Supreme Court justices are able to decide fewer than 1 percent of all the appeals
James Duane
#36. Simplicity means to feel such a sense of kinship with others that we choose to live simply so that others may simply live.
Duane Elgin
#37. Is this place home?"
"No, Duane .. You are.
Penny Reid
#38. And we will cause it to be well-made, this Sacrifice. You, young and never loving; I, old and never loved. Such a Song the Sea will never have seen.
Diane Duane
#39. The issues of the choice between right and wrong has to be an ongoing concern for everybody, at every age. There is no magical point in a human life when anyone is or becomes immune to the second-by-second choice to do right instead of wrong.
Diane Duane
#40. I think photographers are too polite. There is not enough anger in photography; it's pretty much trivialized.
Duane Michals
#41. When governments murder those who speak the truth, it is time to get new governments.
Diane Duane
#42. We believe that God is big enough to give every nationality their own religion, as he's given them their own taste in food, in plants, in furniture, and housing. I think that each religion has their basic Christ-ish way to get to the Everlasting God.
Duane Chapman
#43. Everything is temporary, Duane. This," he gestured to our surroundings, "this is temporary. Even mountains fall. Nothing lasts forever. You got a chance at happiness, even for a week, a month, a year? You grab it and you hold on to it for as long as it lasts.
Penny Reid
#44. Six men can carry you or 12 men can judge you. You decide!
Duane Chapman
#46. I have the utmost respect and 'aloha' for black people - who have already suffered so much due to racial discrimination and acts of hatred.
Duane Chapman
#47. We have a way of making the most extraordinary experience ordinary.
We actually work at destroying our miracles ...
Duane Michals
#48. Power is to be used in the service of others and only secondarily, if at all, for the benefit of oneself.
Duane Elmer
#50. The character of a whole society is the cumulative result of countless small actions, day in and day out, of millions of persons.
Duane Elgin
#51. Where's my bed?!" Dairine shrieked.
"It's on Pluto," Nita said. "On the winter side, somewhere nice and dark and quiet, where you won't find it if you look all day-which you're not going to have time to do, becaus you'll be in school.
Diane Duane
#52. Art is not fashionable. That's why fashion and art are two different things. Fashion can never be art because fashion deals with whim, what is temporary, what changes, what is transient, what is now and not now. Art has to deal with issues that are timeless, that never change.
Duane Michals
#53. Photography is very presumptuous. Photographers are always photographing other people's lives - something they know nothing about - and drawing great inferences into it.
Duane Michals
#54. And, that's what I truly believe that we're doing when we're advancing scientific knowledge is we're someday making the world better. Not only for our children, but for all people after that.
Duane G. Carey
#55. That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.
Duane G. Carey
#56. He smiled. It was small and magnetic. I took a mental snapshot; spending time with him confirmed my suspicion that Duane's smiles were few and should be treasured. I
Penny Reid
#57. There's a lot of different forms of communication, but music is absolutely the purest one.
Duane Allman
#58. Just a title, or an author's name, would be enough to summon up happy images. Strange
Diane Duane
#59. To crank up a noisy bad stance out in a place like San Francisco and start yelling about "getting things done in Washington" is like sitting far back in the end zone seats at the Super Bowl and screaming at the Miami linebackers "Stop Duane Thomas!
Hunter S. Thompson
#60. I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.
Duane Michals
#61. I love what I do. I love to capture the guy. I love to tell the victim 'Don't worry anymore. They're in jail.' And this is my way to heaven. This is my way to contribute to America what I know how to do best, and that's chase down the predator.
Duane Chapman
#62. I feel much better to give than to receive. That's why I'm much more happier now as a coach than I ever was as a fighter.
Duane Ludwig
#63. I love the Dead. As far as Jerry Garcia, Jerry Garcia could walk on water. He could do anything any man could ever do. He's a prince.
Duane Allman
#64. There's been a tremendous amount of work that's been done that you can't see in Columbia.
Duane G. Carey
#65. It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.
Duane Chapman
#66. In dream, delusion, and fantasy, exist man's next best reality: that place where he is the creator of his own worlds; where he builds, learns, discovers and entertains; is master of all outcomes, his own god of destiny, and thus the student of his own evolving and ever uncertain truth.
Duane Hewitt
#67. And then, when I thought about joining the Air Force, flying seemed like a natural extension of the motorcycling experience. You're going faster, higher. You're operating a machine that's a lot more powerful than you are.
Duane G. Carey
#68. Living simply is not about living in poverty or self-inflicted deprivation. It's about living an examined life where one has determined what is truly important and enough ... and then just let go of all the rest.
Duane Elgin
#69. And to the Pig he said, "What's the meaning of life?"
"You know, a friend of yours was asking me the same thing the other day," said the Transcendent Pig, ambling over, sitting down, and looking Ponch over in an amiable way. "Is asking," it added.
Diane Duane
#70. You know, Scooter's going to do the first separation burn; I'm going to do the second separation burn.
Duane G. Carey
#71. I think if God came down and gave us all His version of Empathy then all the world's problems would surely become a thing of the past.
Duane Hewitt
#72. I am increasingly convinced that humankind's best future lies within the power of the imagination, with knowledge following closely in step.
Duane Hewitt
#73. Beware! said the peridxis's voice in her head. Don't let It's shadowy little truth overwhelm the greater one.
Diane Duane
#74. Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.
Duane Elgin
#75. People, workers, the elderly, all these people I see with sympathy and affection. These are the people who have fought the battle of life and who now and then show the hard work and the frustration ... It's all about human activity, it's truth, and we all get there.
Duane Hanson
#76. When dawn spread its cool clear flush over the meadows and fields and thorny pastures to the north and east, Duane pulled an old lawn chair out of the cabin and sat down to watch, cradling a cup of coffee in his hands. It was chilly enough that he threw an old poncho over his lap.
Larry McMurtry
#77. We live in a culture where the one who shouts the loudest gets the most attention. It's not in the vulgar, it's not in the shock that one finds art. And it's not the excessively beautiful. It's in between; it's in nuance.
Duane Michals
#78. I'm very emotional. That's why I wear shades a lot.
Duane Chapman
#79. Something always happens. You still have to promise stuff anyway. If you have to work to make the promises true ... it's like a spell. You have to say the words every time you want the results.
Diane Duane
#80. The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.
Duane Chapman
#81. A no-hitter is a freaky thing,' Tweet said. 'Most of the greatest pitchers never pitched one. It's a combination of a lot of little accidents.
Duane Decker
#82. You know, piloting really isn't my hobby. And, it's probably not something I'd do in my spare time if I could do whatever I wanted to do. But, I'll tell you: if you've got to make a living, it's a great way to make a living!
Duane G. Carey
#83. Disruption is in my genes. My father owned one of the first discount toy stores, Duane's Toyland, in Albany and Schenectady, near where I grew up. Discount was always a huge disruptor - it disrupted Sears Roebuck.
Craig Hatkoff
#85. Any space tends to look serene when it's not full of angry dinosaurs
Diane Duane
#86. A legend can just as well be founded in the future as in the past."
"It's called a 'prophecy,'" Urruah said. "You may have heard of the concept.
Diane Duane
#87. All good children's books, I think, address metaphysical issues in some kind of way.
Duane Michals
#88. My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.
Duane Chapman
#89. It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the world in their own image.
Carl
Diane Duane
#90. But even in your world it's a byword. Men will fight bravely and be heroes, but for last-ditch defense against any odds ... get a Mother.
Diane Duane
#91. Why'd he pull you over, Duane?" This question came from Billy.
"He's an idiot. He said my tail light was out."
"Is your tail light out?"
"Yes. But he's still an idiot.
Penny Reid
#92. Rendezvous day is the third day of our mission, and that's a big day for us.
Duane G. Carey
#93. The Spear in the Other's heart is the spear in your own: you are he.
Diane Duane
#94. The intention of this way of life [voluntary simplicity] is not to dogmatically live with less. It's a more demanding intention of living with balance. This is a middle way that moves between the extremes of poverty and indulgence.
Duane Elgin
#95. Most people think it's normal to have a nameless sorrow at the bottom of your soul.
Diane Duane
#96. It's empty. Duane swore harsh enough to make a sailor blush, calling into question not only the suspect's parentage, but that somehow duck's were involved.
Andrew Grey
#97. So much of life isn't about having the right answer; it's about knowing the right question.
Duane Hewitt
#98. Belief as such always has doubt at the bottom. It's knowing that makes wizardry work. Only knowing can banish doubt.
Diane Duane
#99. She's been fucking someone else. She's still fucking Duane. She's getting back together with Duane and they're getting married. Duane's in the closet with a video camera and a gun.
Chad Kultgen
#100. Honey, have you seen your sister?
She's on Jupiter, Mom.
Diane Duane
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