Top 100 Quotes About Denton
#1. And he'd kill Lily Ann Denton, put her in the trunkm and go to arbys. Godm he was hungry.
Gregg Olsen
#2. There is this great, great wrestler, who never really got an opportunity to be a star, named Len Denton: he was a masked guy called The Grappler. He was one of my favorite guys to ever wrestle, and it was just a tremendous pleasure to step in the ring with him.
Jake Roberts
#3. The belts do more than make you fuzzy, Denton. They change the way you think. The way you act.
Jim Butcher
#4. There's an amazing world out there for you to discover, Henry Denton, but you have to be willing to discover yourself first.
Shaun David Hutchinson
#5. Maybe there is no better novel in the world than Denton Welch's In Youth Is Pleasure. Just holding it in my hands, so precious, so beyond gay, so deliciously subversive, is enough to make illiteracy a worse social crime than hunger.
John Waters
#6. This was how Diego saw me. I was Henry Denton and I was Space Boy. I was broken and I was beautiful. I was nothing and I was everything. I didn't matter to the universe, but I mattered to him.
Shaun David Hutchinson
#7. And often Lisa thought bitterly of the ideas she had held on "college life" before coming to Denton, ideas and images culled from a hundred magazine stories and as many movies. Where were the convertibles, the secret bottles of liquor, the gay young men and their wild girl friends?
Grace Metalious
#8. Judge Rountree holds half my property in the palm of his hand." Denton's growl broke the silence. "I'd appreciate if you didn't insult him at all, much less in his own home."
"He named his children One, Two, Three, and Four," she said. "He deserves to be insulted.
Deeanne Gist
#9. Henry Denton: You Brits really don't have a sense of humor do you?
Elsie: We do if something's funny, sir.
Julian Fellowes
#10. Oh, hell no!" I yell at them. They are not about to negotiate as to whether they get to see my goods. "Denton, I swear to God, if you come over here, I am sending you anthrax in the mail!
Angeline Kace
#11. Denton struck Charley as the kind of man who never wasted energy on extra movement or idle chitchat. He was foursquare Sonny Boy Williamson and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a Silvertone guitar, older than old school.
Natalie Baszile
#12. Absolute faith can blind you to the consequences of the actions you allow. It can tell you it's okay to drop bombs on another country, or that it's okay to hate a group of people such as homosexuals.
Andrew Denton
#13. Is there Gawker ethics? I mean, I guess there's Gawker ethics. It's a dangerous thing to talk about.
Nick Denton
#14. Throughout the past century there has always existed a significant minority of first-rate biologists who have never been able to bring themselves to accept the validity of Darwinian claims. In fact, the number of biologists who have expressed some degree of disillusionment is practically endless.
Michael Denton
#15. I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.
Andrew Denton
#16. In most Life Situations, the truth is irrelevant. Once in a great while, however, it's the only thing you've got.
Bradley Denton
#17. A belief in the purposeful complexity of Fate is always more comforting than random, straightforward facts. This may be why Mother preferred to believe in Atlantis and UFOs rather than in virtually everything else.
Bradley Denton
#18. Your writers write these pieces about meaningless startups, meaningless apps and meaningless companies.
Nick Denton
#19. Is it really credible that random processes could have constructed a reality ... which excels in every sense anything produced by the intelligence of man?
Michael Denton
#20. I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders.
James Denton
#21. It's still about the women. It's not called Desperate Plumber. People are more interested in cat fights.
James Denton
#22. The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable, event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle.
Michael Denton
#23. Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers - and at some point the distinction should become meaningless,
Nick Denton
#24. James was my given name, but I was a junior; so I was Jamie as a kid.
James Denton
#25. The man who inspired me most, I think, was Dr. Alfred Blalock, who was professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins. He was a rather simple man with a burning curiosity. It was through his curiosity that he made many real contributions to medical science.
Denton Cooley
#26. Founded on faith in God, the United States has been blessed as no other nation.
Jeremiah Denton
#27. Get a scalpel, and practice just, say, cutting a piece of meat or something like that. You sort of learn how you want to hold your fingers, and that sort of thing, and try to become graceful when you operate.
Denton Cooley
#28. The cast is so big that you really don't work very much.
James Denton
#29. Comedy is a very personal thing, as you would know if you've ever told the same joke to two people and had one of them laugh their head off and the other one look at you as though you were a completely cretin.
Andrew Denton
#30. My wife being a trainer helps, because when I'm at home, everything we keep at the house is pretty healthy.
James Denton
#31. A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.
Andrew Denton
#32. My parents were amazing people who had no business being together - and they knew it.
James Denton
#33. No picture, no footage, no story. The people these days require some visual evidence in order to believe what they read.
Nick Denton
#34. And of course Marc Cherry heightens it and makes it hilarious. But there's so many universal themes in the show, and he made it so funny. We knew he was onto something if he could keep it up and, thankfully, he did.
James Denton
#35. I think it helps a lot when they tell people that Teri Hatcher likes you. If you're Teri Hatcher's boyfriend, suddenly you're hunky I guess. I've spent 40 years being average and now I'm Teri hatcher's boyfriend and here we are. I've been really fortunate.
James Denton
#36. I love David Caruso. I know it's not cool, but I do. I watch CSI: Miami. I think he's interesting.
James Denton
#37. I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.
Andrew Denton
#38. It's harder now for journalists to do stories about billionaires, like Peter Thiel, without having at the back of their minds the fear that maybe somebody deep-pocketed, you know, with limited resources is going to come after us and can my organization afford to defend me?
Nick Denton
#39. Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop fell down the Google search results, overtaken by copycat stories with simpler headlines. Deadspin's headline was 118 characters. Vital information - 'hoax' - was one of the words that was cut off.
Nick Denton
#40. In terms of their basic biochemical design ... no living system can be thought of as being primitive or ancestral with respect to any other system, nor is there the slightest empirical hint of an evolutionary sequence among all the incredibly diverse cells on earth.
Michael Denton
#41. I think theatre helped, only because it was acting experience. I got to work with a lot of directors.
James Denton
#42. My principal battle with the North Vietnamese was a moral one, and prayer was my prime source of strength.
Jeremiah Denton
#43. Nowhere in the world can you find a wider variety of empty calories than at any American convenience store.
Bradley Denton
#44. We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth.
Andrew Denton
#45. Death is meaningless unless it happens to someone you know.
Bradley Denton
#46. My wife is really unhappy with my agent. But I'm the big winner.
James Denton
#47. We believe that the best Web content optimization strategy is something as old as journalism itself: the shocking truth and the authentic opinion.
Nick Denton
#48. I had come with such pain and labour to a place where emptiness had arrived before me. I was too late, something black and hollow had overtaken me and wriggled through the door.
Denton Welch
#49. A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor.
Jeremiah Denton
#50. When you long with all your heart for someone to love you, a madness grows there that shakes all sense from the trees and the water and the earth. And nothing lives for you, except the long deep bitter want. And this is what everyone feels from birth to death.
Denton Welch
#52. The biggest surprise about our marriage is that Erin was out there.
James Denton
#53. Look, I learned from your uncle that when the universe turns out to be insane, the wise man embraces insanity.
Bradley Denton
#54. I would be killed by an atheistic government which was trying to force me to renounce my God-fearing government. I was convinced that the next day would be my last on earth, and I felt no bitterness. God had given me a full life.
Jeremiah Denton
#55. While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.
Nick Denton
#56. I still take failure very seriously, but I've found that the only way I could overcome the feeling is to keep on working, and trying to benefit from failures or disappointments. There are always some lessons to be learned. So I keep on working.
Denton Cooley
#57. The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.
Andrew Denton
#58. The Declaration of Independence has established certain moral confines, and governs in a manner consistent with the spirit under which our nation was founded: Love God; love thy neighbor as thyself.
Jeremiah Denton
#59. Real acting is realistic no matter what the medium.
James Denton
#60. I think straight couples have a schedule: You're together for two years and then there's the 'where is this going?' question, which wouldn't necessarily be good for everyone, but I think it's pretty healthy for relationships, for there to be a presumption that there is a decision to be made.
Nick Denton
#61. It was described as Sex and the Suburbs. It's so not that. Because on Sex and the City, those women told each other everything; on our show, it's much more like the real suburbs - nobody tells anybody anything. Everything's a secret.
James Denton
#62. Nowhere was Darwin able to point to one bona fide case of natural selection having actually generated evolutionary change in nature ... Ultimately, the Darwinian theory of evolution is no more nor less than the great cosmogenic myth of the twentieth century.
Michael Denton
#63. Our coin bears the inscription: In God We Trust. And our Bible reassures us: The Lord is just and merciful. With the Lord thence our protector, whom or what shall we fear?
Jeremiah Denton
#64. If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
Andrew Denton
#65. This is my third ABC show over the last four years, so we were afraid that nobody would find it. ABC was really struggling and so we just weren't very confident that it would find an audience.
James Denton
#66. I prayed. God became more than faith. He became knowledge, and I appealed to him. Then I became ashamed. Why hadn't I embraced him so thoroughly before?
Jeremiah Denton
#67. You could argue that as web audiences have grown larger and advertisers have demanded scale, the web has dumbed down - like the mainstream media we so mocked.
Nick Denton
#68. I have a long track record of really horrible relationships and a divorce behind me; so I'm not the guy to ask. I just got really fortunate with this one.
James Denton
#69. I have to come to terms with the paternalism of American business. Companies are expected to take on so many social responsibilities which are the province of the state in Europe.
Nick Denton
#70. I never had any classes or went to theatre school like a lot of actors, so all of my training has been on stage with different directors. That was a pretty good school room.
James Denton
#71. The family is the engine that drives civilization. Throughout history, those cultures that have failed to found their rules and attitudes of society on the central importance of the family unit have decayed and disintegrated.
Jeremiah Denton
#72. That's always been my test for what makes a story: is this something journalists would gossip with each other about?
Nick Denton
#73. It's no wonder that new ventures such as The Daily look first to Gawker Media when staffing up. We should not wait for a poaching expedition to pay someone what they deserve. I apologize if that has been the case and will do better in 2012.
Nick Denton
#74. When I came out here, my manager thought that casting directors might think I'm a girl, and when I did Threat Matrix, they thought Jamie was a little light.
James Denton
#75. An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.
Nick Denton
#76. As a print journalist, if you hear a rumour you try to stand it up and if you can't, the story dies. With a blog you can throw the rumour out there and ask for help. You can say: 'We don't know if this is true or not.'
Nick Denton
#77. I'm off at least three or four days a week, so it's a perfect job, really.
James Denton
#78. Making art is like humour - very moment dependent.
Michael Denton
#79. We are here because we know that the only guarantee in life is that if you do nothing, then nothing will change.
Ann Denton
#80. A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.
Denton Cooley
#81. My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn't cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford.
Nick Denton
#82. Considering the way the prebiotic soup is referred to in so many discussions of the origin of life as an already established reality, it comes as something of a shock to realize that there is absolutely no positive evidence for its existence.
Michael Denton
#83. I regret the stories we didn't do - the stories that we knew about and talked about but didn't have all of, so didn't publish. The whole idea of Gawker was to remove the barrier between the thought and the talk - and the page.
Nick Denton
#84. Personally, as a print journalist, I always found the most interesting stories to be the ones hacks talked about in the bar after work.
Nick Denton
#85. I've been on a lot of shows that nobody cared about.
James Denton
#86. Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it's fun to know people are watching, and to know that all of your hard work is not sort of wasted.
James Denton
#87. Henry Blodget does occasionally have a new idea. If you're making a point about aggregation or the emptiness of modern journalism, he's far from the best target. Try Huffpo - or Gawker writers whose souls have been corroded by irony.
Nick Denton
#88. It slows down grocery shopping, because so many women at the store watch the show. I always end up talking to two or three people every time I go to Ralphs. It's fun.
James Denton
#89. We are honored to have had the opportunity to serve our country under difficult circumstances. We are profoundly grateful to our Commander-in-Chief and to our nation for this day. God bless America.
Jeremiah Denton
#90. You know how the best story angles often spring from that thought you have on reading an article or watching a show - that thought you have before the responsible journalist in you comes up with something boring. I usually recommend people get in touch with their deep 'reptilian brain.'
Nick Denton
#91. It irritates me that everybody concentrates on Gawker, because it's just one of 15 sites and it doesn't even get the most traffic. It's a significant site, but it's not what we are.
Nick Denton
#92. We've all been around love enough to know how lucky we are. I've never seen anybody have a cross word on the set, and I'm there a lot. All the women just got brand-new trailers, so they're happy.
James Denton
#93. I was born and raised in the South, which is pretty conservative.
James Denton
#94. You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.
Andrew Denton
#95. Most good media come out of somebody saying, 'This should exist; this is something I want to read.'
Nick Denton
#96. While the Japanese droned on in a high-pitched voice, I blinked out the desperate message over and over. TORTURE ... TORTURE ...
Jeremiah Denton
#97. I'm pro-choice and those things, but I typically vote Republican.
James Denton
#98. The most interesting comments, they don't come from people with Klout scores. They don't come from people with a history on our sites.
Nick Denton
#99. They're pretty particular about what they show. They certainly edit the scripts and have conversations with the writers about what they are and aren't willing to portray. But the writers and the network are pretty much on the same page.
James Denton
#100. And they didn't have to get into a lot of legal speak or talk ER terms, they were real people. I think that's why so many actresses were attracted to it. And it was just about problems that you could identify with so much, right off the bat.
James Denton
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