Top 100 Dunne's Quotes
#1. Silvia Dunne's voice sounded calm and even, but April knew her mother was like a grenade with the pin out - she could explode any minute.
Mia James
#2. Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.
Finley Peter Dunne
#3. Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph.
Peter Dunne
#4. I had never attended a trial until my daughter's murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroom enraged and redirected me.
Dominick Dunne
#5. Except that, very rarely, when the sun shines on her in the same way the sun's rays light up the inside of Stonehenge once a year, Jack finds Ruthy mesmerising.
Jonathan Dunne
#6. Mama, rest in pieces, used to call it Dada's hibernation because sometimes people don't wake up from a coma.
Jonathan Dunne
#7. Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.
Finley Peter Dunne
#8. Earth is such a sweet 'n sour place, thought Gonzo, puffing on his seaweed roll-up, and he knew that if aliens did exist, then they'd probably only stop to avail of this planet's toilet facilities on the intergalactic highway.
Jonathan Dunne
#9. I'm in five guilds; that's a lot of dues to pay. So I have to keep on working.
Griffin Dunne
#10. But at the same time, never having final cut before, I really learned an interesting thing for any studio executive who is reading this: that if a director has final cut, it's actually easier and more interesting to listen to notes.
Griffin Dunne
#11. I can remember certain Manchester United defeats the way most people remember family bereavements or great political events. The four-nil drubbing by Barcelona, the failure to score against West Ham, the New Year's Day calamity at home to Spurs, the mauling by Middlesborough.
Tom Dunne
#13. See this Swiss army knife, Lawless! It's gotta magnifying glass and a million blades but I only need one, so step right the fuck back!
Jonathan Dunne
#14. Nick Dunne took my pride and my dignity and my hope and my money. He took and took from me until I no longer existed. That's murder.
Gillian Flynn
#15. You know,' Mrs Dunne said, 'you can come use my phone whenever you need to,' She stood up and sat on the edge of her desk, resting her hand on Eleanor's knee. Eleanor was this close to asking for a toothbrush, but she thought that would lead to a marathon of hugging and knee-rubbing.
Rainbow Rowell
#16. That's the kind of stuff you are offered today. Scripts that have you mixed up with young men. I find them utterly revolting.
Irene Dunne
#17. There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue.
Finley Peter Dunne
#18. It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time.
Philip Dunne
#19. Your body isn't really yours, Jackie boy. Your body is mine and I'm claiming squatter's rights.
Jonathan Dunne
#20. And that's the best thing about this crazy journey: I am forgetting that I'm an old man instead of the Alzheimer's reminding me by forgetting
Jonathan Dunne
#21. When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away with your embezzlements and your lies and your murders, but you can never get away with failing.
Dominick Dunne
#22. A pipe? A pipe?! Your mother would turn in her grave if she knew she'd spawned a daughter who smokes a pipe! Your poor mama was a pure lady. Prim and ladylike. She smoked menthol cigarettes, now that's feminine.
Jonathan Dunne
#24. A man's idea in a game of cards is war, cruel, devastating, and pitiless. A lady's idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.
Finley Peter Dunne
#25. The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
Finley Peter Dunne
#26. Charlene says:I hope I can be a star. I want to be able to set goals so I know where I'm going. It feels like I've been sort of floating around without being sure where I'd end up because I haven't figured out what I'd really like to do.
Deanie Humphrys-Dunne
#27. Ruthy's got the curves of the Scalextric he had once gotten for Christmas.
Jonathan Dunne
#28. My old man always told me to retrace my steps, but what's the point if I can't remember where my feet are, let alone my footsteps...
Jonathan Dunne
#29. Charlene's thoughts:
I'm next in the green jumper's Class. I thought I'd be in the red jumpers' class because of my red hair.
Deanie Humphrys-Dunne
#30. And I like being able to go back and forth, and I don't really care if it's a small budget or big budget or studio or independent, as long as it's got a story that's compelling and there's enough money to make the picture.
Griffin Dunne
#31. To see a comedy in an environment where you're surrounded by other people that are laughing is great. That's probably more satisfying than just watching it by yourself.
Griffin Dunne
#32. I changed my name for that piece of shit. Historical records have been altered - Amy Elliott to Amy Dunne - like it's nothing. No, he does not get to win.
Gillian Flynn
#33. New York is at once cosmopolitan and parochial, a compendium of sentimental certainties. It is in fact the most sentimental of the world's great cities - in its self-congratulation a kind of San Francisco of the East
John Gregory Dunne
#34. The wise people are in New York because the foolish went there first, that's the way the wise men make a living.
Finley Peter Dunne
#35. Critical design can never be truly popular, and that is the fundamental problem. Objects that are critical of industry's agenda are unlikely to be funded by industry.
Anthony Dunne
#36. Charlene says:I heard I'm being moved to Jumping for Joy farm. That sounds like a happy place to be. I'll learn a lot about jumping. Maybe it's different than jumping up and down like I do when I'm having a tantrum.
Deanie Humphrys-Dunne
#37. When the Internet arrived in Ireland ... it was like having Amsterdam's Red Light District in your own living room.
Tom Dunne
#38. But that's why there are so few women stars today. Pornography has taken away the mystery.
Irene Dunne
#39. It's more interesting to put yourself in the place of Bette Davis than Irene Dunne, I guess.
Charles Busch
#40. Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while.
Finley Peter Dunne
#41. I love working with actors. I love to see what they're going to do. There's just something very thrilling and satisfying with being involved with something, all the way through the process [making movie].
Griffin Dunne
#42. If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.
Finley Peter Dunne
#43. I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
Finley Peter Dunne
#44. You can really call Irene Dunne 'The First Lady of Hollywood', because she's the first real lady Hollywood has ever seen.
Leo McCarey
#45. She really is a shining star. Imagine how far she's come since she was on the farm in Ohio. She's our Cinderella horse.I can't wait to start riding again.Will my leg work as well as it did before the surgery. What if it doesn't work at all?
Deanie Humphrys-Dunne
#46. Politics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' pro-hy-bitionists had best stay out of it.
Finley Peter Dunne
#47. Nicky, the van's on fire!'
'Fuck the van, Willy! We got ourselves a prodigy child!
Jonathan Dunne
#48. As the idealized mother, I might choose Irene Dunne as the mother in 'I Remember Mama' who strives and not just cooks and scrubs for her children, but who also acts as her daughter's literary agent.
Richard Corliss
#49. I don't understand all about New York society. It's only when they are in trouble that I'm really interested.
Dominick Dunne
#50. I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.
Finley Peter Dunne
#51. You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.
Philip Dunne
#52. You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
Finley Peter Dunne
#53. The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
Finley Peter Dunne
#54. Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
Finley Peter Dunne
#55. Time will always have the answer in the end, whether you like that answer is immaterial to Time because it tends not to keep friends.
Jonathan Dunne
#56. My dear, since Eve picked the apple no woman's ever been taken entirely unawares. When a woman's kissed it's because, deep down, she wants to be kissed.
Philip Dunne
#57. A Mormon is a man that has the bad taste and the religion to do what a good many other people are restrained from doing by conscientious scruples and the police.
Finley Peter Dunne
#58. Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.
Finley Peter Dunne
#59. But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.
Irene Dunne
#60. People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.
Dominick Dunne
#61. Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
Finley Peter Dunne
#63. You're wrong about one thing: fairy-tales do exist. Millions of existing parents read existing fairy-tales every night from existing books to kids who, funnily enough...'
'... exist, yeah, I know. I mean it's fantasy, not reality.
Jonathan Dunne
#64. Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.
Finley Peter Dunne
#65. But some jokes are hilarious until they become true and they're not so funny anymore.
Jonathan Dunne
#66. For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.
Dominick Dunne
#67. Although there was a screenplay, the actors never knew what questions I was going to ask them, and all of my character's voice-over narration and scenes were added after the fact.
Griffin Dunne
#69. I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.
Griffin Dunne
#70. I've lived this very dramatic life, with high points and terrible low points. Nothing has been ordinary, and I want to have the experience of the last breath. I want a little drama to it.
Dominick Dunne
#71. The circus is the perfect business right now because parents want their kids to be kids and not Charley Bucket drinking cabbage soup all day.
Jonathan Dunne
#72. I recall when this place was a good 'n honest community hall with a great sense of place and pride but now it's just a hall and fuck the community.
Jonathan Dunne
#73. In that brief kiss, Arthur's demigod had abandoned him.
Jonathan Dunne
#74. I want to be the best race horse around when I grow up, Mama.
You can be, Charlie, as long as you are willing to try your best and not give up when you have a bad day.
Deanie Humphrys-Dunne
#75. Unicorns are for those who aren't content with the wonders this world holds...not that I've seen any of it.
Jonathan Dunne
#76. I started on the opening page of my own book.
'I am a cheating, weak-spined, women-fearing coward, and i am the hero of your story. Because the woman I cheated on - my wife, Amy Elliott Dunne - is a sociopath and a murderer.'
Yes. I'd read that.
Gillian Flynn
#78. Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.
Finley Peter Dunne
#79. Trying to build the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God is like trying to make a wheel without a hub.
Irene Dunne
#80. My son's got the I.Q. Of a robot but I don't have the dough to send him to school.
Jonathan Dunne
#81. I met a few chimpanzees on my pilgrimages and I wasn't sure if they were just shrivelled-up villagers or chimps...
Jonathan Dunne
#82. As a member of the New York Senate from 1966 to 1989, I voted 12 times to establish the death penalty in New York ... I regret my votes in favor of the death penalty.
John R. Dunne
#83. Ruby: Oh Rosie Dunne, expect the unexpected for once. Maybe this time you won't get such a shock when things don't go your way.
Cecelia Ahern
#84. Excerpt:
Here are some thoughts from Charlene the Star:
"I'll bet that's why Mama put the word "Star" in my
name. I have a feeling I'm going to be a star as a jumper.
Deanie Humphrys-Dunne
#85. The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.
Finley Peter Dunne
#86. Sarah is a mirage after all; an oasis in this arid, amnesiac, desert mindscape. I fear if I get too close she too will turn to dust.
Jonathan Dunne
#87. And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films.
Irene Dunne
#88. Thank you. This kimono was handmade by the Chinese silkworms themselves, I'm led to believe.
Jonathan Dunne
#89. Gonzo, the enlightened hippy-biker island god, was a hermit in every sense of the word; a hermit crab and this island was his shell.
Jonathan Dunne
#90. Nothing can replace the excitement, the magic, and yes the glamour of a Ziegfeld show.
Irene Dunne
#91. I made no pretense of doing balanced reporting about murder. I was appalled by defense attorneys who would do anything to win an acquittal for a guilty person.
Dominick Dunne
#92. That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.
Finley Peter Dunne
#93. As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.
Griffin Dunne
#94. Revenge is a dish best served cold but Mama prefers to serve it with hot gravy, potatoes, and roast turkey.
Jonathan Dunne
#95. New York means so much to people. If you're inclined to leave the nest, New York is where most people think they have to go, and it's been that way since the first skyscraper.
Griffin Dunne
#96. I drifted into acting and drifted out. Acting is not everything. Living is.
Irene Dunne
#97. It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.
Griffin Dunne
#98. Within me, I knew I would never be a first-rate producer. I wasn't tough enough.
Dominick Dunne
#99. No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.
Finley Peter Dunne
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