Top 100 Duffy's Quotes
#1. I remembered Duffy's challenge. Imagine a world worth living in, a world worth fighting for. I closed my eyes and allowed my hopes to soar
Leslie Feinberg
#2. My actions were intended solely to secure the repayment of funds, which I considered to be in the public interest, and I accept sole responsibility. I did not advise the prime minister of the means by which Sen. Duffy's expenses were repaid, either before or after the fact.
Nigel S. Wright
#3. No one is reading my diary, that's for sure.
Erin Duffy
#4. It's great to be able to do shows like 'Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door,' which I think is entirely too long of a title.
Patrick Duffy
#5. Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.
Duffy Daugherty
#6. I'll probably never fully become what I wanted to be when I grew up, but that's probably because I wanted to be a ninja princess.
Cassandra Duffy
#7. I can hold a note and I know I'm not ugly so, in ways, that's enough.
Keith Duffy
#8. Christmas is taken very seriously in this household. I believe in Father Christmas, and there's no way I'd do anything to undermine that belief.
Carol Ann Duffy
#9. When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.
Carol Ann Duffy
#10. Like other women who sought equality, the amount of trouble I cause is inversely proportional to my physical size.
Cassandra Duffy
#11. But life, they said, means life. Dying inside.
The Devil was evil, mad, but I was the Devil's wife
which made me worse. I howled in my cell.
If the Devil is gone then how could this be hell?
Carol Ann Duffy
#12. Ultimately, there's always been a link between comic books and video games, and comic books and movies, and then basically all three steadily becoming this sort of transmedia.
Troy Duffy
#13. When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.
Duffy Daugherty
#14. Society isn't a simple organism with one nucleus and a fringe of little feet, it's an infinitely complex living structure and if you try to suppress any part of it by that much, and perhaps more, you diminish, you mutilate the whole.
Maureen Duffy
#15. It's hard to believe we're barricading ourselves against the one boy who used to protect me.
Shannon Duffy
#16. You're a disgusting, shallow, womanizing jackass, and I hope that soda stains your preppy little shirt." Just before I marched away, i looked over my shoulder and added, "And my name isn't Duffy. it's Bianca. we've been in the same homeroom since middle school, you selfabsorbed son of a bitch.
Kody Keplinger
#17. I've always been slightly afraid of coming out with my record because it's so personal to me. Now it doesn't feel as frightening as I thought it would.
Duffy
#19. It's been an incredible odyssey to make the journey from a vibrantly healthy person to someone with a chronic illness.
Karen Duffy
#20. You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.
Carol Ann Duffy
#21. Praise of blame in the moment means little: it is how their decisions play out over time that matters, and so the redemption they're looking for is of a more lasting kind. They are one another's peers; who else can really judge them?
Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy
#22. Darian murdered them in cold blood. That's a crime punishable with life in the Terrorscape, where you experience the worst nightmares imaginable.
Shannon Duffy
#23. When you're writing for a sequel and there's a movie that's been deemed sacred ground by the fanbase that's the predecessor, you cannot do anything to tread on that, so it's a bit trickier than just being able to sit down and write something.
Troy Duffy
#24. I'm a fan of some horror. Some of the really corny b-horror movies I don't love so much, but 'Rosemary's Baby' is one of my favorite movies.
Megan M. Duffy
#25. It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal.
Carol Ann Duffy
#26. My favorite movie villain? Oh, that's easy. Hannibal Lecter.
Troy Duffy
#27. I think any time you have a workplace that's heavily weighted to men just by the nature of what it is, the same way you can say PR or fashion is heavily occupied by women, there's always going to be a little bit of that sexism.
Erin Duffy
#28. It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.
Patrick Duffy
#29. The truth is, I can't help the way people perceive anything, from the role of financial industry in the economic crisis, to the place of women's fiction in the canon of modern literature, to the rank of mint chocolate chip ice cream as a favorite Baskin-Robbins flavor.
Erin Duffy
#30. My friend had a funny remark; he told me everybody has something - some people have a big butt, some people are insecure and at least you know what it is, even if it's a lump on your head. I know I have a lump on my head.
Karen Duffy
#31. My father managed shopping malls when I was a kid, and my high school job was to dress up in an elf costume and take photos of kids sitting on Santa Claus's lap.
Karen Duffy
#32. Mrs Icarus
I'm not the first or the last
to stand on a hillock,
watching the man she married
prove to the world
he's a total, utter, absolute, Grade A pillock.
Carol Ann Duffy
#33. I'm only just learning what language to use when I want my microphone turned down, you know, because it's all so new to me. It can be quite difficult on a daily basis to communicate with the people I work with, so I'm just looking forward to knowing more.
Duffy
#34. I'm one of the lucky actors in television. I don't make a lot of big waves, but there's constant activity, and that's the way I prefer to live my life.
Patrick Duffy
#35. I never expected in a million years that I would have the honor to become an advocate of women's health care and education, and I'd dive on a live grenade to get this message out, so thank you for this forum.
Karen Duffy
#36. He's not the Darian of my childhood - the one that played jacks with me on the sidewalk, despite being a year older. Nor is he the Darian who stood up for me when Asher bullied me and called me Carrot Top until I cried.
Shannon Duffy
#37. I saw this thing years ago, where somebody filled a gymnasium with ping-pong balls and mousetraps. And then somebody threw just one more ping-pong ball in there, and literally, in five seconds, the room was popping. And then it was dead. And that's how it was with 'Dallas.' Just ... 'boom!'
Patrick Duffy
#38. It's hard to listen to the news every day and have everyone saying you're the Antichrist.
Erin Duffy
#39. I still have a feeling that I haven't written the best that I can write. I think all poets must feel this: that there is constantly something new to be discovered in the language. It's like a thrilling encounter, and you can find things.
Carol Ann Duffy
#40. I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.
Patrick Duffy
#41. If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.
Carol Ann Duffy
#42. Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
Patrick Duffy
#43. Maybe he's accepted our fate as well, I tell myself and hope it's true. As much as I'm unhappy with the pairing, I hate that I must be just as much of a disappointment to him.
Shannon Duffy
#44. I hate Keanu Reeves. I think he's a punk.
Troy Duffy
#45. Edinburgh is my favourite city. We'll be doing a lot of children's theatre and galleries.
Carol Ann Duffy
#46. I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister.
Carol Ann Duffy
#47. We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are in nobody's pocket ... We should let nobody tell us that they know all that it contains, or try to prescribe or constrain in advance what it has to tell us.
Eamon Duffy
#48. It's hard not to be a fighter when you're constantly under siege.
Cassandra Duffy
#49. It was a classic Nixon move: goad an opponent into attacking, then ride a wave of sympathy s you defend your honour.
Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy
#50. I'd rather be thought of as smart, capable, strong, and compassionate than beautiful. Those things all persist long after beauty fades.
Cassandra Duffy
#51. The poem is a form of texting ... it's the original text. It's a perfecting of a feeling in language - it's a way of saying more with less, just as texting is.
Carol Ann Duffy
#52. She stood upon a continent of ice, which sparkled between sea and sky, endless and dazzling, as though the world kept all its treasure there; a scale which balanced poetry and prayer.
Carol Ann Duffy
#54. Mr. Duffy lived a short distance from his body.
James Joyce
#55. Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.
Carol Ann Duffy
#56. I like to think that I'm a sort of poet for our times.
Carol Ann Duffy
#57. Some Christians worried about a faith that was so embracing as to be meaningless, that exalted not the Almighty so much as the American way of life. When civil religion bleached the challenge from faith and left behind a watery patriotism, there was room for concern.
Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy
#58. It was a stirring piece of bravado but Powell deftly set it aside. "My wife would understand perfectly your loyalty as a general's wife," he said, "but I tell you there is no honour in throwing away lives when the outcome is already determined.
Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy
#59. I didn't really watch 'Dallas,' so I wasn't as wowed by the idea of Patrick Duffy as Swedes were 'cause he's, like, the most famous guy in all of Sweden.
Greg Poehler
#60. Went to the Zoo, I said to Him- Something about that chimpanzee over there reminds me of you.
Carol Ann Duffy
#61. I believe her exact words were "Rip them balls right off that cock-sucker and shove 'em up his ass", followed by, "then that shit-for-brains wouldn't be fucking no more skank hoes on your watch again!" So you can see that I toned it down a bit.
Diane Rose Duffy
#63. I try to manage my time to conserve energy.
Karen Duffy
#64. The beauty of standing up for your rights is others will see you standing and stand up as well.
Cassandra Duffy
#65. It was like looking for a Natural Blonde at Hugh Hefner's
Aimee Duffy
#66. Every day is a gift with a child, no matter what problems you have.
Carol Ann Duffy
#68. I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.
Karen Duffy
#69. I learned to travel, then I travelled to learn.
Patrick Duffy
#70. Blast ignorant people with high-powered streams of information and wisdom, but only when fire hoses are not readily available.
Cassandra Duffy
#71. Symbolic rearrangement of the past is of course an unavoidable aspect of all human attempts to make sense of the present.
Eamon Duffy
#72. Don't worry, Duffy. I like you. We'll kill you last.
Adrian McKinty
#73. I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book would be to make money, and I don't want to do that. To write a book would be going against how I've lived.
Patrick Duffy
#75. The creature pulled flaky skin back from its teeth in a terrifying grin. Then it pounced.
Aimee Duffy
#76. All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.
Duffy Daugherty
#77. I run my fingers along its rough edges a moment, remembering the day Darian and I borrowed his dad's carving knife and engraved our initials in place.
Shannon Duffy
#78. My eyes can scan the list of work in progress, and I know immediately what's happening in the current month. I even use custom icons on Windows and color-coding on Mac to get even more information at a glance when I open my go-to folder - see the sidebar.
Jill Duffy
#79. The poem is the literary form of the 21st century. It's able to connect young people in a deep way to language ... it's language as play.
Carol Ann Duffy
#80. There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
Patrick Duffy
#81. Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
Carol Ann Duffy
#82. When you have a couple hundred people in one huge space, that's gonna lead to jokes and it's a breeding ground for practical jokes and teasing.
Erin Duffy
#83. My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.
Duffy Daugherty
#84. It's bluesy, rocky jazz. I call it soul music, but it's not James Brown soul music. It comes from my soul. It comes from a deeper place. Duffy has that similar old school soul sound to herself. If I opened for Duffy, that would make sense to me, in my head.
Tinsel Korey
#85. But Eisenhower's advice was consistent, from his days as a general, to his years in the White House, to his role as veteran counselor: don't fight unless you are in it to win. Don't waste time and lives with half measures.
Nancy Gibbs; Michael Duffy
#86. Love's language starts, stops, starts;
the right words flowing or clotting in the heart.
Carol Ann Duffy
#87. No man is an island but every woman is. That's why we build bridges.
Suzy Duffy
#88. It was never a conscious decision - I was introducing myself as Duffy and my friends were calling me Duffy, so I just knocked off the first half of my name. For me it's no big deal, but a lot of people want to unearth why I've called myself this. It's just what I'm known as, you know.
Duffy
#89. We see people voting for bills that their ideals and principles are opposed to, but because their little funding project is in there, they're voting for it. We might say it's one percent of all spending but the impact of that spending is far greater.
Sean Duffy
#90. With things like Facebook, it's really easy to think that you know someone that you really don't.
Megan M. Duffy
#91. I'm not the first or the last
to stand on a hillock,
watching the man she married
prove to the world
he's a total, utter, absolute, Grade A pillock.
- Mrs Icarus
Carol Ann Duffy
#92. What's good is that my music is different from everyone else's. It's got the soul element, like Duffy, but it's not very retro. It's a contemporary, pop, fresh sound. That's what makes it different.
Pixie Lott
#93. The ancient Greek view of happiness was really defined by leading a productive life: It's not about how much you have, it's about what you do with it.
Karen Duffy
#94. In addition, I'll be attending women's health expos and medical conferences with the goal to promote dialogue between women and their health-care providers.
Karen Duffy
#95. I am enormously honored to be one of the spokesmen of the New Age Womens Health Campaign, so you'll be seeing me in public service announcements and public appearances supporting the campaign.
Karen Duffy
#96. I'm an inherently happy person. It comes from the inside, which means you can achieve happiness under any circumstance.
Patrick Duffy
#97. How can you be more subject; black woman in a white man's world?
Maureen Duffy
#98. I've actually been compared to every female singer going from Britney, Christina, Mariah, Duffy, Amy Winehouse, everyone. And they are so different, so I think it's cool that people see me as so many different artistes but I think I'm a little different, yeah.
Pixie Lott
#99. I'll never do more than kiss you for the camera, ever."
"Never say never, Chloe
Aimee Duffy
#100. Dancers are a work of art - they are the canvas on which their work is painted.
Patrick Duffy
