Damn Quotes - page 2

7) Any damn fool can predict the past. (Larry Niven)
Mark my word, if and when these preachers get control of the [Republican] party, and they're sure trying to do so, it's going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly, these people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can't and won't compromise. I know, I've tried to deal with them. View quote
Barry Goldwater
The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn. View quote
Agatha Christie
I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election. View quote
Warren G. Harding
Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. View quote
Jack Nicholson
Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand. View quote
Rose Wilder Lane
They are damn good projects - excellent projects. That goes for all the projects up there. You know some people make fun of people who speak a foreign language, and dumb people criticize something they do not understand, and that is what is going on up there - God damn it! View quote
Harry Hopkins
Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly what some other damn fool tells him he's going to see. View quote
John D. MacDonald
There was a while when I was feeling like, 'Damn, if I'd just been born black, I would not have to go through all this'. View quote
Eminem
Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. View quote
Mark Twain
It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. (Andrew Johnson)
Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results. View quote
Ernest Shackleton
For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time. View quote
Anne Enright
You are just in the middle of a struggle with words which are really very stubborn things, with a blank page, with the damn thing that you use to write with, a pen or a typewriter, and you forget all about the reader when you are doing that. View quote
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero. View quote
David R. Ellis
Oscar Wilde said the rich and the poor are equal - they can both sleep under the bridge. Right? Do they have a right? You're damn right they have a right! View quote
Al Lewis
People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile. View quote
Judith Guest
At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too. View quote
Richard Attenborough
When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'. View quote
Groucho Marx
I don't give a damn about "The Missouri Waltz” but I can't say it out loud because it's the song of Missouri. It's as bad as "The Star-Spangled Banner” so far as music is concerned. View quote
Harry S. Truman
Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway. (John Lennon)
Listen, son-most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range than we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better-and the vile ones are viler. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
It is not the government's purpose to make a profit the way a company does, because a company doesn't have to give a damn about the unemployed poor or provide services that are non-commercial by definition. View quote
Jean Chrétien
What actually happened was that Rolling Stone paid me fifteen hundred dollars for the use of all the drawings - about twenty four of them - and then offered to buy the originals from me, which my agent urged 'was a good move!'. He sold the whole damn treasure trove to Jann Wenner for the princely sum of sixty dollars per drawing. I rue the day I let him convince me. View quote
Ralph Steadman