Don Quotes

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. (George Bernard Shaw)
I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side. I stand for God's side. View quote
Bob Marley
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
If you have the opportunity to play this game of life you need to appreciate every moment. A lot of people don`t appreciate the moment until it's passed. View quote
Kanye West
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. View quote
W. H. Auden
The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn`t be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don`t regret it. View quote
Kim Wilde
Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's Progress. View quote
Samuel Johnson
I don´t want to be interesting, I want to be good. View quote
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza. View quote
Franz Kafka
Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than talent. It is more than the government. It is almost the equal of family.- Don Corleone. View quote
Mario Puzo
Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young. (David Guterson)
I'm in love with a fairytale, even though it hurts. 'Cause I don`t care if I lose my mind; Im already cursed. View quote
Alexander Rybak
Don`t promise me forever, just love me day by day. View quote
Alexander Rybak
Don Ho can sign autographs 3.4 times faster than Ephraim Zimbalist Jr. (243) View quote
George Carlin
Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with great ambitions. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
As far as I am concerned, Don Quixote is the most metal fictional character that I know. Single handed, he is trying to change the world, regardless of any personal consequences. View quote
Christopher Lee
We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
I don t mind a reasonable amount of trouble. View quote
Dashiell Hammett
Men have periods, too... they just don´t bleed. View quote
Tori Amos
It was not until I got my first job, at the University of Washington in Seattle, and began playing chess with Don Gordon, a brilliant young theorist, that I learned economic theory. View quote
Douglass North
God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then-who knows?-rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too. (Oscar Wilde)
How does one conquer fear, Don B.?” "One takes a frog and sews it to one's shoe,” he said. "The left or the right?” Don B. gave me a pitying look. "Well, you'd look mighty funny going down the street with only one frog sewed to your shoes, wouldn't you?" he said. "One frog on each shoe. View quote
Donald Barthelme
Don Quixote - I read that every year, as some do the Bible. View quote
William Faulkner
We don´t have a desperate need to grow. We have a desperate desire to grow. View quote
Milton Friedman
Well, you know, like, I don`t really give a f**k what the general public think. View quote
Sid Vicious