Top 404 Steely Dan Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

My love for Dan Brown knows no bounds. It literally has no mass.

Dan Fouts fumbled the game away for Chargers.

As Aristotle said, happiness is not a condition that is produced or stands on its own; rather, it is a frame of mind that accompanies an activity. But another frame of mind comes first. It is a steely determination to do well.

When I get about five readers I can rub together in one genre, I leave that genre and go somewhere else. And this is due to a vow that I made myself when I started writing - that if I had any success at all, I would not be bound to one form of writing. That I would write what moves me. The only way I can see me surviving and doing more than one book is to present the readers with a Dan Simmons novel, with whatever tropes and protocols from whatever genre I want to borrow them. If that builds a Dan Simmons readership, well then, okay. Otherwise, forget about it. I'd rather drive a truck.

You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.

The door closed behind her (Phoebe), and the two men regarded each other for a moment. Viktor spoke first. "I must have your promise, Coach, that you won't hurt her." Dan: "I won't." Viktor: "You spoke a little too quickly for my taste. I don't quite believe you." Dan: "I'm a man of my word, and I promise I won't hurt her." He flexed his hands. "When I murder her, I'll do it real quick so she won't feel a thing." Viktor sighed. "That's exactly what I was afraid of.

I'm sure Bonnie Blair and Dan Jansen think I'm garbage.

My name is Dan, and I'm a technoholic.

Dan Loeb has become a billionaire searching out value in financial markets.

Dan Quayle thinks Roe v. Wade is two ways to cross the Potomac.

For my money, Dan Hodge is the greatest amateur wrestler ever produced in the U.S.A.

In 1688, Edward Lloyd opened a coffeehouse on London's seafront popular among underwriters, men in powdered wigs with mathematical minds and steely constitutions who offered to compensate owners if their boats were lost at sea.

Listen, children: Your father is dead. From his old coats I'll make you little jackets; I'll make you little trousers From his old pants. There'll be in his pockets Things he used to put there, Keys and pennies Covered with tobacco; Dan shall have the pennies To save in his bank; Anne shall have the keys To make a pretty noise with. Life must go on, Though good men die; Anne, eat your breakfast; Dan, take your medicine; Life must go on; I forget just why.

Taigen Dan Leighton has lovingly illumined still another dimension of the human condition.

My brother was a Chargers fan, so we watched Dan Fouts a lot growing up.

Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard to marshal, the party of Oh Yeah, Baby, Make Mama Feel Good.

When you stand and overcome a significant setback, you'll find an increasing inner confidence and self-assurance that has been created by conquering defeat. Absorbing and overcoming this kind of punishment engenders a sober, steely toughness that results in a hardened sense of independence and a personal belief that you can take on anything, survive and win.

In the end, Dan Rather's legend skewered him, CBS and the craft of journalism.

Murderer who lives in my building. His name is Dan Bevacqua. Hes a fiction writer.

Most governments do have inbuilt biases in favour of the rich and powerful, and most do contain plenty of manipulators who love intrigue, who have lost whatever moral compass they may once have had and who protect themselves with steely cynicism.

I just felt like I was mining Dan Brown's work.

Dan Curtis, our producer, has the idea that people like to see a stock company of actors.

There's a certain steely resolve when you decide to live in a city and decide to raise children in the city. And if you're doing it properly, you have sort of a heightened awareness anyway.

Gloria Steinem's marriage is proof positive of the emotional desperation of ageing feminists who for over 30 years worshiped the steely career woman and callously trashed stay-at-home moms.

A bronze plaque read: GAIUS PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS Dan made a face. "Get a load of the guy with the funny name." "I think that's Pliny the younger, the famous Roman writer," Amy supplied. She bent down to read the English portion of the tablet. "Right. In A.D. 79, Pliny chronicled the destruction of Pompeii by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. It's one of the earliest eyewitness accounts of a major disaster." Dan yawned. "Doesn't this remind you of the clue hunt? You know–you telling me a bunch of boring stuff, and me not listening?

We need a steely resolve, not simpering fear. Nothing is going to stop us. Not polio, not Nazis, not gravity! Nothing. We're America.

I can't wait to see how Dan and I will look when we are older.

Dan Rather and I just aren't especially chummy.

I'd love to fight Dan Henderson.

Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.

Could he actually be my muirn beatha dan?

We are accountable for what happened at Dan River and have learned from this event.

I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless.

Dan Gerber is one of our finest living poets.

Dan Rooney was my boss, my father, my friend, my mentor.

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,On Fames eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.

How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my weariness upon his irresistible yet indomitable strength? Is he not the wizend funeral spirit of a dead man in a child's clothes?

I would not have married Dan Quayle had I not thought he was an equal to me.

Technically, my first paying job was I was an extra in my dad's movie 'Dan in Real Life.'

One of the nicest things about NBC is that Tom Brokaw is not Dan Rather.

I've worked with Ed Bradley, Dan Rather and lots of different local news anchors.

The contract like '91 Dan Marino. I swear this guy Michael Rapino's boostin my ego.

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded.

Anyone weighing whether to re-elect the President should take the bin Laden operation into account: it is a powerful exhibit that Obama is a steely Commander in Chief - a critical test for many Americans.

Really? And what curse befalls the Adams of the world?" Ann opens her mouth and, presumably thinking of nothing to say, closes it again. It is Felicity who answers, eyes steely. "They are weak to temptation. And we are their temptresses.

It doesn't matter how much polite self-deprecating fluff you have on the outside if you don't have a steely something in the middle that says, 'You know what, I'm actually really, really good at this, and this is what I can do, and I'm going to do it.'

The quarterback I enjoy watching the most is Dan Marino.

Every time I see Dan Quayle I feel like buying a vowel.

Dan Marino never won the big game. Does that mean his career is a failure? No, not at all.

Big respect to Dan Henderson.

Dan Radcliffe and Rupert Grint to me are like a pair of warm-hearted brothers.

Dan watched in awe. "I didn't know you talk Turkey." "I speak Turkish.

I got every Dan Shaughnessy book known to man.

Who needs bread crumbs," Dan replied, "when you have GPS?

Wherever I go for the military, they always call me Lt. Dan. They just can't help it.

Purple light passed over the paper, but nothing happened. "Next!" Amy said. She was sure the man in black was going to burst in on them any second. "Whoa!" Dan said. Amy gripped his arm. "You found it?" "No, but look! This whole essay - 'To the Royal Academy.' He wrote a whole essay on farts!" Dan grinned with delight. "He's proposing a scientific study on different fart smells. You're right, Amy. This guy was a genius!

When Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bruce Jenner asked a roomful of Olympic hopefuls if they had a list of written goals, every one raised their hands. When he asked how many of them had that list with them right that moment, only one person raised their hand. That person was Dan O'Brien. And it was Dan O'Brien who went on to win the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Don't underestimate the power of setting goals and constantly reviewing them.

106 [degrees] in the valley... I was sweating like Dan Rather checking for forged documents.

The letter from Dan Gilbert, the booing of the Cleveland fans, the jerseys being burned -- seeing all that was hard for them. My emotions were more mixed. It was easy to say, 'OK, I don't want to deal with these people ever again.' But then you think about the other side. What if I were a kid who looked up to an athlete, and that athlete made me want to do better in my own life, and then he left? How would I react? I've met with Dan, face-to-face, man-to-man. We've talked it out. Everybody makes mistakes. I've made mistakes as well. Who am I to hold a grudge?

I guess we're oil and water. (Phoebe) I'd say we're more like gasoline and a blowtorch. (Dan)