Top 100 Sutherland Quotes
#1. Can't stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I'll tell them what to do. Don't get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)
Douglas Adams
#2. It would hardly be kindness if he didn't punish sin, not to use every means to put the evil thing far from us. Whatever may be meant by the place of misery Mr. Sutherland, it's only another form of his love. Love shining through the fogs of evil, and thus made to look very different.
George MacDonald
#3. There was a moment of silence and then Sutherland breathed, But, darling! Gossip is the food of the gods.
Andrew Holleran
#4. When I started, with films like 'The Bay Boy' and 'Stand by Me', I look back on those interviews and I'm amazed; there's no mention of my father; it's not even 'son of Donald Sutherland.' I caught a bit of a break in that it never felt like a weight to me.
Kiefer Sutherland
#5. I've always said, 'Besides Kiefer Sutherland, I talked on a cell phone more than any other actor on a TV show.'
Kevin Connolly
#6. I'll go live in the woods," said Malone.
"You'll be lonely," said Sutherland. "Even Thoreau went to town in the afternoon to gossip.
Andrew Holleran
#7. I did a movie called 'Quicksand No Escape' with Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. I think I was maybe 5. I was really little. Yeah, it was fun. And actually, Felicity Huffman played my mom.
Kaley Cuoco
#8. [Justice George Sutherland said, in the majority opinion for the Carter Coal case] 'One who does a thing in order to avoid a monetary penalty does not agree; he yields to compulsion precisely the same as though he did so to avoid a term in jail.
Jim Powell
#9. Now, any other man in Cedar Dell would catch hell for wearing a pink shirt. Not Nicholas Sutherland. He'd still ooze masculinity if he wore pink sneakers and socks with purple pom-poms.
Emily March
#10. Kiefer Sutherland has agreed to serve 48 days in jail for his DUI convictions. That's 245 months in Jack Bauer years.
Chelsea Handler
#11. Kiefer Sutherland is a crazy jerk on '24,' but you love him because he gets the job done. And I think that that goes for a lot of action stars, I mean Steven Segal is a jerk, but you want to watch him because, eventually, he's a jerk who can beat up bad people.
Paul Scheer
#12. unequally; rarely do they assign equal weights to attributes when performing categorization (Goodman, 1955; Medin & Schaffer, 1978; Nosofsky, 1984; Ortony, 1979; Sutherland & Mackintosh, 1971; Trabasso & Bower, 1968: A. Tversky, 1977).
Lawrence W. Barsalou
#13. They think something's gone wrong, but in Don't Look Now, for instance, one scene was made by a mistake. It's the scene where Donald Sutherland goes to look for the policeman who's investigating the two women.
Nicolas Roeg
#14. For you cannot live in New York City very long and not be conscious of the niceties of being rich - the city is, after all, an ecstatic exercise in merchandising - and one evening of his visit to Venezuela Sutherland sat straight up when he read a line of Santayana's: Money is the petrol of life.
Andrew Holleran
#15. In those days, you had to like one or the other. You couldn't like Sutherland AND Callas.
Terrence McNally
#17. I'm a huge fan of Canadian rock-and-roll. When I was growing up, Rush came out with a record called Hemispheres, and I must have listened to that record for two years straight. Even when I was asleep I had it on. So, yeah, whenever I hear a Rush tune, the first thing I think of is Toronto.
Kiefer Sutherland
#18. In painting, you have to destroy in order to gain ... you have got to sacrifice something you are quite pleased with in order to get something better. Of course, it's a risk ...
Graham Sutherland
#19. Unlike baked beans, loaves of breads or Fuji apples, books once consumed, do not disappear.
John Sutherland
#20. I order you not to die," Tsunami said, grabbing his shoulder. "Clay, stop, STOP IT. Stop dying RIGHT NOW." Her normally bossy voice was full of panic.
Tui T. Sutherland
#22. I hope I'm one of many to come in the Dubai World Cup, and hope I see more women making it at this level. There are a lot of great female jockeys.
Chantal Sutherland
#23. His truths may hurt me, but at least I know that they're truths. My mom and Cameron felt the need to make me feel better. He has no such obligation.
M.K. Sutherland
#25. Oooh," Peril said, momentarily distracted by the idea of an enchanted piece of cheese.
Tui T. Sutherland
#26. You are free to make your own choices, but ultimately your choices make you.
C.D. Sutherland
#27. The writers keep managing to turn the show in on itself, coming up with something that's well thought-out and miraculous.
Kiefer Sutherland
#28. There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.
Kiefer Sutherland
#29. Commander I believe in God and his son Jesus Christ and because I do I can say this. Private Santiago is dead and that is a tragedy. But he is dead because he had no code. He is dead because he had no honor. And God was watching.
Kiefer Sutherland
#30. And, at the end of a long night, as you crawl under the duvet, there is a sense of quiet satisfaction in knowing that the rest of the working world is just setting out on the morning commute. *
John Sutherland
#32. Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.
Donald Sutherland
#33. Peril thought her mother was dead. How would she react when she found out it was Kestrel - and she was still alive?
Tui T. Sutherland
#34. If you are going to do something potentially for another eight years, you want it to be something that you can really sink your teeth in and that's going to be different and interesting for this next period of time.
Kiefer Sutherland
#35. I consider myself to be a relatively helpful person, and there's an interesting line when hope starts to become the way you actually mask or hide from what's really happening.
Kiefer Sutherland
#36. To give a man his life but deny him his liberty, is to take from him all that makes his life worth living. To give him his liberty but take from him the property which is the fruit and badge of his liberty, is to still leave him a slave.
George Sutherland
#37. I've wanted to work with my father for 30 years, and I'm really grateful that I finally had the opportunity, and it ended up - the experience and, I believe, the film - better than I could ever have hoped for.
Kiefer Sutherland
#38. I know I'm not exactly a bombshell, but one has to make the best of what one's got.
Joan Sutherland
#39. I'm very happy to sing whatever I'm singing. I've always enjoyed any role I've been given at a certain time. They've all been favourites, they've all been wonderful pieces to play.
Joan Sutherland
#40. I think one of the things I was most interested in finding out was how differently we approached our work. And my reality was that we didn't approach it very differently at all, which was funny.
Kiefer Sutherland
#41. What happens if the scroll gets destroyed? Is your magic gone forever?" "No, then it comes back to me,
Tui T. Sutherland
#42. A nuisance may be merely a right thing in the wrong place like a pig in the parlor instead of the barnyard.
George Sutherland
#44. I think just in general there's a bunch of films that mattered to me that didn't reach their potential, and on some level you have to assume responsibility for that. And I think over the years that gets difficult.
Kiefer Sutherland
#45. She seemed like the type of woman who'd help you forget about your headache by setting your bed on fire.
Tiffany Reisz
#46. I was 20 when my daughter was born, and making all these plans during my wife's pregnancy. I was going to be the perfect father. Once she was born, it was suddenly, 'Oh, my God! I'm a parent!'
Kiefer Sutherland
#47. I had never gone to college, I left school at a really early age, and all of a sudden I've got six really great friends hanging out with me every night. And we were a really tight group, and we just had an absolute blast.
Kiefer Sutherland
#48. Well, I was always cast as an artistic homicidal maniac. But at least I was artistic!
Donald Sutherland
#49. The function of the child is to live his own life - not the life that his anxious parents think he should live.
Alexander Sutherland Neill
#50. There are two things that Jack Bauer never does. Show mercy, and go to the bathroom.
Kiefer Sutherland
#51. I have no idea. I get involved because I think there's value in the project and because I love the character that is presented to me. I love the opportunity to examine a character, and to have him examine me, live inside me and move my hands. I love that. It's irresistible. It's a drug.
Donald Sutherland
#52. She's definitely a romance writer. I've primed her to be a romance writer, subjecting her to so many romantic dramas it would be a miracle if she didn't become a romance writer.
Samantha Young
#53. The other dragonets were his own size (nearly), and they didn't cheat (well, most of the time).
Tui T. Sutherland
#54. Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves ?Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here ?Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change ?
Donald Sutherland
#55. One is just given a talent, and it's one's duty to make the most of it.
Joan Sutherland
#56. If you take a look at our natural history, there's always a moment where the young lion wants to challenge the older lion and, inherently, that's going to be problematic, and I don't think we're any different.
Kiefer Sutherland
#58. I think we're [me and my son] different. He plans, organizes and intellectualizes more than I do. It wasn't until I worked with Federico Fellini that I understood what my problem was.
Donald Sutherland
#59. [My husband] can beat most anyone in Trivial Pursuit, but only because the game does not include questions like "Where is your wallet?
Amy Sutherland
#60. The willingness to change one's mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.
Stuart Sutherland
#61. You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.
Kiefer Sutherland
#62. Reality isn't a particularly good guide to human happiness.
Rory Sutherland
#63. I didn't grow up with my dad, so it was always very funny to me, and always has been, what an important part DNA plays in one's life.
Kiefer Sutherland
#64. I haven't had any visions about this! This seems seriously vision-worthy! Powers, help me out!" She closed her eyes. "Oh, no! I see ... darkness ahead!
Tui T. Sutherland
#65. When you look in the eyes of someone and that's what you look into, I knew him with my blood. It's not something you can actually ever get to, I don't think, without that. It was a huge gift, as an actor.
Donald Sutherland
#66. Okay boy's and girls, let's learn how to fight. -Sergeant Til
C.D. Sutherland
#67. Love is a self-manifested notion depending on how lonely you are - so if you're really attracted to someone, and you're really lonely, I think you can fall in love in an instant. It's all about where you're at.
Kiefer Sutherland
#68. Scavengers who attacked dragons for their treasure, waving sharp little toothpick claw things called swords.
Tui T. Sutherland
#69. Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.
Donald Sutherland
#70. Being a good dragon is about the choices you make no matter where you are or who raised you or how.
Tui T. Sutherland
#71. When you're a Viking, you never know when you're going to get the axe.
Alyssa Sutherland
#72. My focus on 9/11 was on the victims - in the towers, in the planes - and all that loss.
Kiefer Sutherland
#73. She's frightened of me. Mother would be so proud. He turned away, skewering a fish on one of his claws. I guess I did threaten to slice off her face.
Tui T. Sutherland
#75. I wasn't trying to do a play or do what Kevin Spacey did. I was trying to do my own thing.
Kiefer Sutherland
#76. Winter glanced over at Cirrus again and found him glaring at Moon and Kinkajou with an expression of searing hatred, so intense that Winter wanted to run across the clearing and fling up his wings to shield Moon from it.
Tui T. Sutherland
#77. Joe Wright called me and I also had some trepidation along those lines but he said no, it would work. He had a very clear and specific idea of what he wanted to do.
Donald Sutherland
#79. Otherwise he'll always be worrying about what she thinks of him. It's her eyes on him that make him so afraid of his magic. He'd be much happier and less worried without her around. As would I, frankly. I don't particularly like dragons who point sharp things at me.
Tui T. Sutherland
#80. When you're a young actor you like to go for characters with a bit of flair, so in many films I ended up playing the weirdos. I can assure you I'm not a psycho or a criminal or a bully.
Kiefer Sutherland
#81. You know, I wish I wasn't so young when I made some of my movies, because I thought that's what the rest of my life was going to be like and I'd have all the time in the world to enjoy it. It wasn't and I didn't.
Kiefer Sutherland
#82. The cinema camera doesn't make movies; it allows movies to be made. It's the creative people who make it real to people.
Ivan Sutherland
#83. Fathom curled his claws around the brown sphere and brought his snout close to it, feeling quite silly indeed.
Tui T. Sutherland
#84. I'm always jumping in my seat or gasping during a good horror movie.
Kiefer Sutherland
#86. I've made films that I've given all I had to, that no one has seen. The bottom line is I want to work and I want someone to enjoy it.
Kiefer Sutherland
#87. This papaya tastes boring. I guess I normally like papaya. But this one is sort of boring all the way through. Like eating water. Boring water. I wonder when it will be sun time. Maybe I should try a different papaya after this one. But what if the next papaya is boring, too?
Tui T. Sutherland
#89. But - " she said, her voice swallowed by the hot air in the hushed room. "But I burnded it.
Tui T. Sutherland
#90. It had to do with the way women throughout time has known the feel of love when it came to them.
Peg Sutherland
#91. What I ended up doing was kind of crafting an idea for a story, presenting it to a writer - a dear friend of mine, Brad Mirman - and he ended up writing a beautiful script. I should've done that a lot earlier.
Kiefer Sutherland
#92. I remember being really grateful that David Lynch had actually even thought of casting me, because I was a huge fan of his.
Kiefer Sutherland
#93. It's the system that surrounds us, rather than any intrinsic quality, that accounts for the vast majority of our behavior.
Jeff Sutherland
#94. Multitasking Makes You Stupid. Doing more than one thing at a time makes you slower and worse at both tasks. Don't do it. If you think this doesn't apply to you, you're wrong - it does.
Jeff Sutherland
#95. 'Books had always been my best friends and all I wanted to do was lose myself in them, and better yet if the worlds and characters were of my own making.'
Fae Sutherland
#96. We don't share IceWing secrets with mere RainWings, haughty sniff.
Tui T. Sutherland
#97. What we most regret are not the errors we make, but the things we didnt do.
Audrey Sutherland
#98. I really think I'd be better at, like, advanced napping techniques.
Tui T. Sutherland
#99. There are aspects of '24' where I love its politics and aspects where I hate them.
Kiefer Sutherland
#100. You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.
Joan Sutherland
