Top 100 Quotes About Dunne
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. Just a few questions for you, Mr. Dunne. Or Kenny. Can I call you Kenny? I feel we've become friends in these past few seconds. Can I call you Kenny?
Derek Landy
#5. 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
#6. Amy Elliot Dunne is like a yeti - coveted and folkloric - ...
Gillian Flynn
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. You can really call Irene Dunne 'The First Lady of Hollywood', because she's the first real lady Hollywood has ever seen.
Leo McCarey
#10. Richard Dunne comes from a great footballing family ... the Dunne family
Johnny Giles
#11. It's more interesting to put yourself in the place of Bette Davis than Irene Dunne, I guess.
Charles Busch
#12. 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
#15. Unicorns are for those who aren't content with the wonders this world holds...not that I've seen any of it.
Jonathan Dunne
#16. 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
#17. In that brief kiss, Arthur's demigod had abandoned him.
Jonathan Dunne
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.
Griffin Dunne
#23. 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
#24. For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.
Dominick Dunne
#25. You can lade a man up to th' university, but ye can't make him think.
Finley Peter Dunne
#26. Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it.
Finley Peter Dunne
#27. 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
#29. Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals.
Finley Peter Dunne
#30. People are fascinated by the rich: Shakespeare wrote plays about kings, not beggars.
Dominick Dunne
#31. 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
#32. Drink never made a man better, but it has made many a man think he was better.
Finley Peter Dunne
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
Finley Peter Dunne
#37. The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
Finley Peter Dunne
#38. But some jokes are hilarious until they become true and they're not so funny anymore.
Jonathan Dunne
#40. No matter whether the Constitution follows the flag or not, the Supreme Court follows the election returns.
Finley Peter Dunne
#41. Within me, I knew I would never be a first-rate producer. I wasn't tough enough.
Dominick Dunne
#42. 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
#43. I drifted into acting and drifted out. Acting is not everything. Living is.
Irene Dunne
#44. 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
#45. Revenge is a dish best served cold but Mama prefers to serve it with hot gravy, potatoes, and roast turkey.
Jonathan Dunne
#46. 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
#47. That is, no matther whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme coort follows th' iliction returns.
Finley Peter Dunne
#48. 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
#49. Nothing can replace the excitement, the magic, and yes the glamour of a Ziegfeld show.
Irene Dunne
#51. Thank you. This kimono was handmade by the Chinese silkworms themselves, I'm led to believe.
Jonathan Dunne
#52. And yet I think The White Cliffs of Dover one of my best films.
Irene Dunne
#53. 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
#54. The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.
Finley Peter Dunne
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. I met a few chimpanzees on my pilgrimages and I wasn't sure if they were just shrivelled-up villagers or chimps...
Jonathan Dunne
#58. My son's got the I.Q. Of a robot but I don't have the dough to send him to school.
Jonathan Dunne
#59. Trying to build the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God is like trying to make a wheel without a hub.
Irene Dunne
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
Finley Peter Dunne
#65. 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
#66. When 'tis an aven thing in th' prayin', may th' best man win ... an' th' best man will win.
Finley Peter Dunne
#67. I cared not a whit whether Time were "a form of thought," or an aspect of reality, or (this was later) compoundable with Space. What I wanted to know was: How it got mixed?
J.W. Dunne
#68. I don't believe he was made in China, but I do believe he is disposable.
Jonathan Dunne
#70. I always love going back to Los Angeles, because it was my home for 24 years, and I have many friends there.
Dominick Dunne
#71. But I remember feeling as a producer I felt like the guy who called the caterer and got the band; I had to work the party while everybody else was having a good time.
Griffin Dunne
#72. If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
Finley Peter Dunne
#73. 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
#74. Everest, son, remember when I told you that asking questions is a sign of weakness?
Jonathan Dunne
#75. I care not who makes th' laws iv a nation, if I can get out an injunction.
Finley Peter Dunne
#78. 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
#80. If movies are set in New York, they really should be shot in New York.
Griffin Dunne
#81. 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
#82. Father has a fear of flying since that aeroplane crashed into his bedroom.
Jonathan Dunne
#83. If you ever hear anybody refer to Elizabeth Taylor as Liz Taylor, you can be pretty sure the person doesn't know her.
Dominick Dunne
#84. We've all got trashy friends, but we should choose our trashy friends with more care.
Dominick Dunne
#86. A rayformer thinks he was ilicted because he was a rayformer, whin th thruth iv th matther is he was ilicted because no wan knew him.
Finley Peter Dunne
#87. There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized
John Gregory Dunne
#88. Your body isn't really yours, Jackie boy. Your body is mine and I'm claiming squatter's rights.
Jonathan Dunne
#89. A lie with a purpose is one of the worst kind, and the most profitable.
Finley Peter Dunne
#90. A firm belief atthracts facts. They come out iv holes in the ground an' cracks in th' wall to support belief, but they run away fr'm doubt.
Finley Peter Dunne
#91. So how do you know she was a mermaid if you didn't see her bottom half?
Jonathan Dunne
#92. Opposites attract, mom.'
'Yes, but in your case, darling, it is hydrogen and oxygen, and we all know what happened the Hindenberg.'
Just in case their daughter wasn't aware of the ill-fated zeppelin, Lambert clarified: 'This too will end in flames.
Jonathan Dunne
#93. I am openly pro-prosecution and make no bones about it. I don't think there are enough people out there sticking up for victims.
Dominick Dunne
#94. I'm being told it saves money to shoot in Toronto, because of tax benefits, the crews are cheaper, but what I save in the bottom line, I lose in a million other ways.
Griffin Dunne
#95. Marvin wasn't a beat-box gangsta-rapper-bitch, but a stressed invalid in a town not equipped with ramps.
Jonathan Dunne
#97. Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace.
Irene Dunne
#99. In my own case, I employed this experiment mainly in order to seek for the barrier, if any, which divides our knowledge of the past from our knowledge of the future. And the odd thing was that there did not seem to be any such barrier at all.
J.W. Dunne
#100. A man that'd expict to thrain lobsters to fly in a year is called a loonytic; but a man that thinks men can be tur-rned into angels by an iliction is called a rayformer an' remains at large.
Finley Peter Dunne
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