Dunnigan Quotes

#1. Timothy Dunnigan: The kinds of metaphorical language that we use to describe the Hmong say far more about us, and our attachment to our own frame of reference, than they do about the Hmong.

Anne Fadiman

#2. Through most of its wars, the United States successfully used the attrition approach. It is easier to be proficient at this type of warfare. You need to master only the simplest military skills and possess enormous quantities of arms and munitions.

Jim Dunnigan

#3. Give not reins to your inflamed passions; take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.
[Lat., Ne frena animo permitte calenti;
Da spatium, tenuemque moram; male cuncta ministrat
Impetus.]

Statius

#4. Credo quia impossibile.' I believe it because it is impossible.

Nelson DeMille

#5. My big influences are piano artists like Billy Joel and Elton John.

Kyle Dunnigan

#6. I'd think, One of the times she leaves will be the last time I see her. It destroyed me. I didn't want us to have a last time, and that was how I realized I'd fallen in love with you.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#7. A pope going through a faith crisis would be funny to see.

Kyle Dunnigan

#8. Good advice, if there's any good in suffering. Quickest is best when trouble blocks the way.

Sophocles

#9. Very specifically, Nickelodeon is aimed at eight- and nine-year-olds.

Kyle Dunnigan

#10. My doctor told me i had Attention Deficit Disorder. He said, 'ADD is a complex disorder, blah, blah, blah,' I didn't pay attention to the rest.

Kyle Dunnigan

#11. And under our system, much like you see in the U.K., of course, a party working with another party can form a coalition and govern the country.

Rick Mercer

#12. I think comedians start off as pranksters or something.

Kyle Dunnigan

#13. Writing rules is not one of the more 'glamorous' aspects of working on games. It is a task that is, in general, more drudgery than glory.

Jim Dunnigan

#14. I have a swastika tattoo on my arm, but it's just because I like right-hand turns.

Kyle Dunnigan

#15. I think a bird is the worst present you can give somebody because it's guilt-ridden. This animal has the gift of flight, and you put it in a cage and watch it not do that until it dies.

Kyle Dunnigan

#16. I like to edit; I like to work with other people, and that's something stand-up doesn't really have.

Kyle Dunnigan

#17. If I own a business, I work for myself. And if I have no revenue, I work for free. That's not slavery. That'll be the case when I employ 1,000,000,000 clones of myself. I won't pay them, but they are me, so it's not slavery.

Jarod Kintz

#18. The typical socialist ... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings.

George Orwell

#19. Overeating and sedentary behavior could not explain the prevalence of obesity and diabetes in modern societies,

Gary Taubes

#20. Every year, dads will dress up as Santa and try to surprise their kids by coming down the chimney, and every year, a dad gets stuck and dies.

Kyle Dunnigan

#21. Justin is twenty-four years old: the world will never be more suited to him than it is now, he will never feel more embraced by life or have greater faith in his right to exist. The earth and the oxygen, the cities and lights, the nights and the beaches seem created for him and for those like him.

Sonya Hartnett

#22. But undying memories stood like sentinels in her breast. When the notes of doves, calling to each other, fell on her ear, her eyes sought the sky, and she heard a voice saying, Majella!

Helen Hunt Jackson

#23. Everything is happening spontaneously, and the witnessing of it is also happening spontaneously. Everything is already happening in natural balance.

Mooji

#24. I love doing different things where, for a little while, I can focus on standup then sketch writing, then performing, then directing a video. That, to me, is stimulating.

Kyle Dunnigan

#25. Part of me thinks that your very vulnerability brings you closer to the meaning of life, just as for others, the quest to believe oneself white divides them from it.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#26. I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But when I started writing songs, I wrote very serious songs. Or things that a 13-14 year-old would think are very serious issues.

Kyle Dunnigan