Top 100 Dunn's Quotes
#1. It's so hot, Mister Dunn's rooster walks in my door and squats his red self right in front of my kitchen fan. I come in to find him looking at me like 'I ain't moving nowhere, lady
Kathryn Stockett
#2. Dunn's Law:
Careful planning is no substitute for dumb luck.
Arthur Bloch
#3. Clive Dunn, as I understand it, retired to the south of Spain, where he worked extensively in watercolours. I don't own any of Clive Dunn's watercolours. I loved him in 'Dad's Army,' loved him. But not enough to actually seek out his watercolour work.
Hugh Laurie
#5. A great epiphany: I found out that I'm totally confused and I'm good with that. I'm consistently inconsistent. I'm all of the above. I'm OK. I'm a work in progress. That's my next tattoo somewhere.
Ronnie Dunn
#6. I think that it's really important to go away and come back.
Katherine Dunn
#8. I'm a mum. Cooking is something I have to do. It's something I like to do.
Jourdan Dunn
#9. You cannot just switch football on and off; it's intense. There were times when I probably shouldn't have got involved in certain things and said certain things, but you feel that sometimes you have to stand up for what you believe. Maybe the supporters looked to me to stand up as well.
David Dunn
#10. Our country is not in crisis; there are no tanks in the streets. No matter what the outcome of the president's situation, life in America will go on. Our lives will continue to be filled with practical matters, not constitutional ones.
Jennifer Dunn
#11. It's too hard for me to comment on the sorry state of our culture.
Trevor Dunn
#12. London's not a white city. So why should our catwalks be so white?
Jourdan Dunn
#13. I go to castings and see several black and Asian girls, then I get to the show and look around there's just me and maybe one other coloured face.
Jourdan Dunn
#14. What's bred in the bones, when you have bones, comes through. And they looked at her, watched her, wanted to squirt her full of baby juice.
Katherine Dunn
#15. I love being around my family. I am very close to my mum, my brother, my grandmother, my aunts - we constantly poke fun at each other, but it's all done out of love.
Jourdan Dunn
#16. One should not allow untoward events to interfere with one's regular habits or social obligations.
Carola Dunn
#17. A relationship needs constant attention. It's a living thing, not just a habit. You've got to keep on top of it.
Matt Dunn
#18. We're not buying Sam's Club condoms," said Owen. "Their trash bags don't even work.
Sarah Dunn
#20. I love being a musician. I love the lifestyle. But I think it's probably as difficult and frustrating as anything.
Trevor Dunn
#21. In baseball, it's tough to get up for every single game, every single moment. In football, you have 90,000 fans screaming and the band's playing. I do miss that adrenaline rush.
Adam Dunn
#22. I think that it's easy to target a heavy metal band for inciting violence or making kids turn to a cult than it is to actually look at real problems in the real world.
Sam Dunn
#23. I love what's left after love has been tested.
Stephen Dunn
#24. I'd often slip and fall on the ice after last call, which explained the ever-present welts. If I were with a woman, I'd usually execute a precautionary vomit in the men's room in an effort avoid any ugly incidents once I got her back to her place. And they say chivalry is dead.
Dan Dunn
#25. It helps with your acting when you're not in a perfect costume, perfect wardrobe, a perfectly seamed blouse, perfectly ironed hair, and perfectly done eyeshadow. It's really liberating.
Trieste Kelly Dunn
#26. What's bosoms?" Cade asked.
"You'll find out when you get older," Jake said.
"A lot older," Colt said.
Scarlett Dunn
#27. I think it's interesting that when you play a lesbian, people ask you if you're a lesbian, but if you play a serial killer, nobody asks you if you're a serial killer.
Nora Dunn
#28. I love working with directors who have good taste. It's incredible when a director can say something and things open up for you. I went to The University of North Carolina School of the Arts, and some of my best experiences on sets have been working with other alums.
Trieste Kelly Dunn
#29. Maybe it's living back at my parents' house, or perhaps going back to school, but somehow, surrounded by all these reminders from my past, in the middle of all the stuff I grew up with, with the people I grew up around, I think I'm finally beginning to understand what 'home' means.
Matt Dunn
#30. To write a novel is to dream a story and write it down on the page. That's why the power of a really good story is one of true magic. Good stories engage the reader utterly in the writer's dream so the dream becomes theirs, too.
Wendy J. Dunn
#31. You can't tell from looking if it's being built up or torn down, Dunn thought. Can't tell creation from destruction at a distance.
Scott Cawthon
#32. I hope baseball doesn't get to the point where everyone's saying, 'He takes it [steroids]. He takes it. He takes it!' because not all of us do. I've been big my whole life, and I'll always be big. That's all natural.
Adam Dunn
#33. I suspect people are suckers for a prick. I suspect folks just naturally go belly-up for a snob. Folks figure if a guy acts like he's King Tut and everybody else is donkey shit, he must be an aristocrat.
Katherine Dunn
#34. The unconditional love for you child, it's truly amazing.
Jourdan Dunn
#35. You just want to know that you're all right. You just want to feel all right." And now he dives into the sneer. Arty's sneer could flay a rhino. "That's all you need other people's love for!
Katherine Dunn
#36. I decided to be confident one day, and then I just was. I think it's a conscious decision. Everything in society tells you to hate yourself, but you know what? If you decide to love yourself, it's an act of revolution.
Gaby Dunn
#37. Grayson Dunn is in my head. He's under my skin. He's invaded me like a deadly disease and hijacked my immune system until I don't even bother fighting it anymore. I look at him, and I'm twisted into knots. Tangled into a messy spool of desire and desperation.
Julie Johnson
#38. There's a reason I moved to NYC, and if I listed all the musicians on my list you'd grow weary.
Trevor Dunn
#39. Happiness is never an accident. It is the prize we get when we choose wisely from life's stories
Joseph Dunn
#40. You must have wished a million times to be normal."
"No."
"No?"
"I've wished I had two heads. Or that I was invisible. I've wished for a fish's tail instead of legs. I've wished to be more special."
"Not normal?"
"Never.
Katherine Dunn
#41. When someone loves you, there's nothing they won't do for you. When they stop loving you, there's nothing they will.
Matt Dunn
#42. In an age of social media and content being key, it's important to change the mold where you have $100,000 to $150,000 for one video. I hired some guys that are young, just out of college, and we used some new, far-less-expensive cameras and technology to make videos.
Ronnie Dunn
#43. In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It's feeble to be an object. What's the point of being loved in return, I'd ask myself.
Katherine Dunn
#44. I'm from Oklahoma. I mean, you can't have good hair in Oklahoma. That's why everyone wears hats. The wind just messes it up.
Ronnie Dunn
#45. If you've got a good song, it's easy to play. But you can't make a bad song sound good no matter who you have to play on it.
Donald Dunn
#46. For our part, the U.S. must act quickly to ensure Most Favored Nation status to China.
Jennifer Dunn
#47. Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.
Stephen Dunn
#48. Yes. Because they were human men. They were trying to write down the heart's truth out of the heart's driving complexity, for all the complex and troubled hearts which would beat after them.
William Faulkner
#49. I pay less attention to my hair then probably anybody that I know. I get out of the shower, I towel dry it. I, like, blow it off and then I just run my hands through it and away we go. It's just what it is.
Ronnie Dunn
#50. It's real primal; I just like playing music.
Ronnie Dunn
#51. ...it was hard to be a mother when you had never been mothered yourself. Your children's needs remind you of your needs. Their pain reminds you of your pain. All of it reminds you of how bad it felt, how hard it was, how much you wanted and needed and didn't get. It's very hard.
Sarah Dunn
#52. I'm the middle man. I try to keep people happy. I go out of my way to get a smile. That's the way my mother raised me.
Donald Dunn
#53. Why, oh why had he taken up Debbie's offer of a free personal training session, and today of all days? There was no way he was going to get ripped abs by this evening, and the muscles he suspected he'd torn in his lower back were hardly the same thing.
Mark Dunn
#54. Love one another, push the perimeter of this glorious language. Lastly, please show proper courtesy; open not your neighbor's mail.
Mark Dunn
#55. It's always been family first for me. No matter how well my career goes, nobody here will ask anything of me. I'm just another Dunn to them.
Adam Dunn
#56. Guns are heavy metal machines, and, at least in my case, it's surprising how many hours it takes before it looks like you know what you're doing. Releasing and re-loading magazines is difficult when you're asked to do it quickly and efficiently.
Trieste Kelly Dunn
#57. Just as a snowflake
went on to feed a puddle that filled a stream and then the river, the
pumpkin patch is a gathering of molecules from my old goats, chickens,
and cats, feeding the underworld of dirt creatures. And somewhere, my
father's ashes mingle with birds, air, and sea.
Katherine Dunn
#58. The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.
Ronnie Dunn
#59. As we have always seen here in the U.S. the universal truth about elections is that people vote their pocketbook.
Jennifer Dunn
#60. You read the stories about horses being starved at Santa Anita, but a horse can't starve at Santa Anita! I mean, there's just bags of carrots all over the place; food is everywhere. They don't starve any horses!
Kevin Dunn
#61. As a female, you are often being asked by directors to be warmer, softer, flirt more, smile more etc ... None of those things are bad, and obviously we are capable of a variety of human behavior, but it gets really old having to play into somebody's stereotype or ideal.
Trieste Kelly Dunn
#62. When others lives were at stake, Virchow's courage had no limit. That is the definition of a hero.
Leslie Dunn
#63. Obviously it's very hard to leave a club that you've supported all your life. But the reason that I've come to Birmingham is that I think Steve Bruce is one of the best young managers in the country and that Birmingham as a club is a sleeping giant
David Dunn
#64. On a film, they'll always say there's going to be a rehearsal period, and there never is.
Kevin Dunn
#65. It was like the time her sister suggested she read Emily Dickinson to the tune of Gilligan's Island. Once certain thoughts got into your head, you couldn't get rid of them.
Sarah Dunn
#66. I think because my parents died in their early 50s, mid 50s, I always thought I would die young. And that's been both a useful thing and I suspect something that's haunted me a little bit.
Stephen Dunn
#67. [I] am reading No Ordinary Joes. Should have had a medical checkup before I started it. Colton makes us fall in love with these guys, then puts our hearts in harm's way. It's lovely and ghastly and extremely powerful. His best yet.
Katherine Dunn
#68. Mullets are still going strong in the south and places like St Louis or the Carolinas.
Trevor Dunn
#69. When I heard BB King's 'Sweet Sixteen,' I knew I wanted to play bass because that was the thing that made that record: the bass player.
Donald Dunn
#70. When I'm with my friends I'm funny, but I don't feel like I'm a funny clown.
Nora Dunn
#71. I have fun. I always have fun. I don't really get in a hurry about anything. I just try to go with the flow and have fun, and that's how I try to play baseball.
Adam Dunn
#72. I mean, I would hope that I have a style or personality that is evident wherever I go.
Trevor Dunn
#73. He had Oly letter a little card that he taped on his wall. The thing read, 'The only liars bigger than the quack are the quack's patients.' Arty used to just keep me in stitches. Eleven years old he was then.
Katherine Dunn
#74. I have no inflated ideas about success anyway.
Trevor Dunn
#75. I knew when I got to play with Al Jackson I would be a better bass player because he was the best drummer in the world. I worshipped him.
Donald Dunn
#76. A poet's cultural baggage and erudition can interfere with a poem.
Douglas Dunn
#77. What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.
Ronnie Dunn
#78. What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.
Katherine Dunn
#79. I definitely want to continue working in independent films - and big budget stuff as well - but there's a freedom you have when you're not getting paid. It's easier to say no and there's no pressure to please the powers that be. Also I don't have to hear 'flirt and smile more.'
Trieste Kelly Dunn
#80. Men believe the cure for war is war as the curandero prescribes the serpent's flesh for its bite.
Cormac McCarthy
#81. I think at the end of a show, you have to walk out with a message. That's my hardest struggle right now; that's what I'm working towards.
Nora Dunn
#82. It's funny when people ask if I'm a lesbian. I played a real estate agent in 'Father of the Bride, Part II,' but no one has asked me if I sell real estate.
Nora Dunn
#83. Science is full of egos and arrogance, but it is fuller of simple moments of pleasure at the joy of finding some gem of new knowledge, big or small. Such gems can be anyone's.
Rob Dunn
#84. Punish you for what?" said Jack.
"Everything! Nothing. I don't know. That's the problem," said Holly. "That's what happens when you grow up the way I did. You spend the rest of your life just waiting for God to smite the shit out of you.
Sarah Dunn
#85. Although I know it's unfair, I reveal myself one mask at a time.
Stephen Dunn
#86. I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.
Ronnie Dunn
#87. After realising my natural affinity towards surrealism several years ago I decided to study it's origins and definitions.
Trevor Dunn
#88. It's interesting said Jack.
"What is?"
"You believe in God." he said. You just don't believe that God is good.
Sarah Dunn
#89. Once again, the vice president has acknowledged that he dares to follow where Bill Bradley has boldly led ... The only consistency in Al Gore's positions is that he has consistently been less willing to lead with bold proposals of his own, but consistently followed in the footsteps of other leaders.
Anita Dunn
#90. Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.
Trevor Dunn
#91. because it's not my dad's fault he wasn't the dad I wanted growing up. Just like it's not his fault he got cancer. Blaming other people for the situation you find yourself in is just a waste of time. And besides, what's he going to learn if I tell him a few home truths?
Matt Dunn
#92. Because that's what unfaithfulness is, isn't it? A cancer that's always there in the back of your mind, eating away at the foundations of the relationship. It's happened once, it could happen again, so you're always looking for telltale signs or symptoms to show that it's reappeared ...
Matt Dunn
#93. Let's just say, the American school of suburban angst is not my cup of tea.
Katherine Dunn
#94. The negative aspects of Scottish Nationalism are a kind of aggressive complacency, that sort of boasting; but that's an expression of insecurity, I think, of a lack of confidence.
Douglas Dunn
#95. I don't walk around with a cowboy hat. I did get a tattoo that says 'cowboy' that's a bit of an over-compensation, probably.
Ronnie Dunn
#96. Faith is not a means of getting man's will done in heaven; it is the means of getting God's will done on earth. Faith does not put God at our beck and call; rather it puts us at his.
Ronald Dunn
#97. The gun issue is a big, unresolved issue in this country right now. I think it's out of control.
Nora Dunn
#98. The truth is always an insult or a joke, lies are generally tastier. We love them. The nature of lies is to please. Truth has no concern for anyone's comfort
Katherine Dunn
#99. [On a high school visit by Destiny's Child:] Then they appeared, golden Glamazons resplendent in hot pants the size of a dryer sheet and gold stiletto boots. The kids in the front row, clearly on funkiness overload, had the walleyed look of the Today's Catch section of the supermarket.
Jancee Dunn
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