Jack Dunphy On Truman Capote Quotes

#1. Here you are, you're a liberal, probably define peace as the absence of conflict. I define peace as the ability to defend yourself and blow your enemies into smithereens.

Sean Hannity

#2. He has wet dreams and moans dirty things about chest hair."
"That was one time." Okay, more like six times.

T.J. Klune

#3. What I do requires fantastic concentration ... but you can't be totally alone, or you lose all contact with reality, so even when I'm engrossed and secluded, Jack Dunphy can be there. He's my oldest and best friend, and best critic too.

Truman Capote

#4. For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.

Lawrence Durrell

#5. The first time I heard Richard Pryor, I knew he would be a major force in the world of comedy.

Bob Newhart

#6. Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.

Jeanne Moreau

#7. There's a fine line between broody and potential sociopath. Right now you're walking the line.

Cora Carmack

#8. You will have no sensation of a leash around your neck if you sit by the peg. It is only when you stray that you feel the restraining tug.

Michael Parenti

#9. This is a world of compensation; and he who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

Abraham Lincoln

#10. The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

George MacDonald

#11. All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.

Vladimir Nabokov

#12. When I do my concerts, you have got to think about everything else; so you have got to think about your gown, your hair, your body, and how you present yourself on stage.

Jodi Benson

#13. The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

E.B. White

#14. He still has the same way of calling to me, as if I'm still new to him, as if he has yet to get over me.

George Plimpton

#15. I'm a pessimist by nature. I don't think things are ever going to work out, I'm not particularly ambitious.

Diablo Cody

#16. He tapped the artificial leg. "I am not whole." True, she thought sadly. He was not whole, although it had nothing to do with him missing part of a limb.

J.R. Ward

#17. My dear Watson, you were born to be a man of action. Your instinct is always to do something energetic.

Arthur Conan Doyle