Damn Quotations

That's not how national security works... I don't care what the Supreme Court said 30 years ago or what some judge said 15 minutes ago. This is America, and our government is collecting way too damn much data on we the private citizens!

My whole damn family was nice. I don't think I've imagined it. It's true. Maybe it has to do with being brought up as Christian Scientists. Half of my relatives were Readers or Practitioners in the church.

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

It turns out that I've become a pretty good werewolf actor. I'm going to have to try to get myself into a different position, at some point in the future, but I'll take werewolf. Werewolf is pretty damn fun to play.

Making the best of things is... a damn poor way of dealing with them. My whole life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

It was a fine cast and lots of fun to make, but they did the damn thing on the cheap. The backdrops had holes in them, and it was shot on the worst film stock.

'Jaws' freed me to discover that a successful movie didn't make a damn bit of difference to my life.

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!

I could hit the damn ball. No matter who was throwing. Or where the ball was. I left the bench swinging. I didn't get many walks.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.

I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.

People are so busy positioning themselves before the screen and talking on the damn cellphones, communicating, that we're not reading, and in fact we're not really communicating, either. We're not talking to each other. There's just all these screens and wires and technology in between.

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

You see I have to be in the clinic every Thursday and it's in Phoenix so I have to fly down or drive down. It has to be every Thursday for this damn stuff they're giving me.

Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody.

You see, to me, it doesn't really matter if an elected official has a D or an R behind her name, or his name. I honestly don't give a damn about who belongs to either political party.

I jump around in the plotting stage, where I basically just make a bulleted list of every damn thing that happens in the entire book.

Acting feels different. I'm not sure exactly what that is, but it used to mean a lot more. Maybe that sounds like I'm throwing it away and I'm not, I'll still do the best damn job I can, but it doesn't mean the same thing. I'm going to get the answer for myself one of these days. It's the male menopause, that's what it is.

In my 40s - when I was giving to the Red Cross, United Jewish Appeal and other charities - I said to myself, this is all well and good, but these are really amorphous things, and maybe there are some causes out there that I really give a damn about.

I like men who style themselves so that I can tell they give a damn about how they present themselves, but not too much as to say that's probably what they care about most.

I didn't know a damn thing about style.

I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.

My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

I'm convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

I'm intact, and I don't give a damn.

I'm not really into religion, OK. I saw a lot of things I did not like when I got into organized religion. I think a lot of people abuse it, I think a lot of people use it, I think a lot of people make it what they want. And me, my faith and my relationship with God is very personal. And it's not anybody's damn business how we talk.

I was a monster. I don't deny it. I wasn't a monster until a few years ago. But you have to be a monster to survive in New York City. New York City doesn't give a damn about violence.

He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.

I never made a damn dime until I started doing what I wanted.

Everything in life has a price on it - there ain't a damn thing free in America, and football has got a price on it.

I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.

I'm not a great player, but I'm a damn good one.

A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.

I don't know what I'm doing, but I'm damn well gonna do it!

I know it's popular to say this because she's the woman of the moment, but Halle Berry. Not only does she have obvious audience appeal and star quality, but she's a damn good actress too.

I owe baseball. Baseball don't owe me a damn thing.

'The Blair Witch Project' is great for motion sickness. The first time you see it, it is extremely creepy. The first time I saw it, I saw it on a bootleg tape on a tour bus before it had even come out. It was one of the first movies I'd seen like that. I didn't even realize it was a damn movie!

I'm much too young to feel this damn old.

There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.

Democracy - or any improvement on it - will rest on the layman's right to criticize. His criticism will be often - very often - damn silly, but if, like Plato and the Fascists, we take away his right to criticize, we take away his right to appreciate.

I'm doing physics because I'm curious about how it works - full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes, don't worry about whether somebody is going to be able to do an experiment next week, just figure it out.

I'm far from being god, but I work god damn hard.

I have always hated that damn James Bond. I'd like to kill him.

I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.

I have been a waitress, and I was a damn fine waitress too, let me tell you.

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I'm not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that's for damn sure.

I was born with success. Lucky for me I am able to handle it. Also, I damn well deserve it!

Well I have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.

But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.

I don't think I'm against all wars, but you'd have to have a damn good reason to send your son or daughter to fight, or to go yourself. So often, we are lied to and manipulated by our governments for their own very cynical reasons.

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

Any religion that professes to be concerned about the souls of men and is not concerned about the slums that damn them, the economic conditions that strangle them and the social conditions that cripple them is a spiritually moribund religion awaiting burial.

Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.

The problem with public school is not overcrowding in the classroom. The problem is not teacher unions. The problem is not underfunding or lack of computer equipment. The problem is your damn kids.

To defend our country we need to gather intelligence on the enemy, but when the intelligence lies to Congress, how are we to trust them? The phone records of law abiding citizens are none of their damn business.

(Only), he's such a damn good student, he doesn't have to go into coaching.

Porter's a great pitcher. He's a guy that we can rely on to face a hitter at any time. Coach Mac went out there and asked him 'What do you think I'm going to do?' and he goes 'I want the damn ball.' Coach gave it to him and he did the job.

I worked with a lot of superintendents. The last four didn't know a damn thing about what they were doing, particularly the guy from Oklahoma City. I'll never get over that guy.

I would go back in time and do it again... I would not do it a second time, because it damn near killed me the first time.

Life isn't one damn thing after another. It's the same damn thing again and again.

My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.

I don't give a damn about the Leafs. We're not going to look over our shoulder.

I don't give a damn what they do. My players' lives are more important than any damned football game.

I don't give a damn what we are, ... Donovan McNabb is questionable and they're talking about him having surgery. No, if the guy's able to play, you play. We've got to win games. We haven't beaten the Jets in 20 years. I've got a lot of concern with this game.

If we had not had that group of people with the vision to put this thing together and we tried to do it today, I think it would be damn near impossible.

Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)

She did speak up. She told Larry Fitzgerald. And what did I do? I put it out there and they took care of it, didn't they? You damn right it's down because we got on them. I sent people out there.

So, I guess the answer to your question is very few people can bring off a novel of the future because it's just so damn hard to make it look like the future.

She's the perfect icon for our time, ... She takes no prisoners, she does whatever she damn well pleases and she looks fabulous doing it. She's the only woman I know of who men and women both want to sleep with. Even gay men!

You can go left, you can go right, I don't give a damn. Just make a decision.

I would rather be hated every damn day of my life for being real than loved for being something I'm not.

Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!

I was involved with the landmines before the Princess of Wales, and nobody gave a damn about people losing their limbs. It only became a success when she came along.

I damn sure wish it hadn't happened until the season was over. He's under contract with us and he's obligated to us. Right now, everyone's saying the right things. We'll just see how it works out. The bottom line is we don't know." ()

I did not consider that any money was offered, and certainly none was taken. The FBI who taped the entire conversation knows damn well no money changed hands.

Get that damn camera out of my face!

If an ad campaign is built around a weak idea - or as is so often the case, no idea at all - I don't give a damn how good the execution is, it's going to fail.

If it's clean, I'll let it go, ... I'll renew (the ban) every damn month if I have to, I will do whatever I have to to protect the consumer.

But do I expect 18 and 10, 18 and 11? You're damn right I do. Paul's a big key to this stretch run.

I don't know what it was. I couldn't see the damn thing. He had us all talking to ourselves, and nothing that was said was helpful.

But it's his first year and he has done a pretty damn good job.

I'm at a point in my life where I can't see as well, I can't hear as well and I damn sure can't run as fast. And you get tired after a while. I've been doing it for 53 years and I think that's long enough.

Hernandez pitched one hell of a game. He's pretty damn good, that's for sure.

With me, you're either in or out. I picked them. I'm with them. I'm going to try to keep coaching them. I'm not going let this shake me. I've been around this game too damn long.

We're only as good as that plate of nachos or that plate that's going out right now. If they are going to wait an hour and a half, it better be damn good. It better be exceptional, and they better be entertained while they wait.

I have a great deal of respect for the way he goes about coaching defense. His kids really do a good job of that. He's intense. He's passionate about what he does. That's how you win. I don't give a damn what sport you play.

I always choose to remember the moment that was the best of Jeanne Cooper - those photos where she's in that wild dress triumphantly hoisting up the Emmy the night she finally won the damn thing. She was so proud, so happy.

He was talking about how those businesses should be able to move wherever they damn well please, and we never supported that. We didn't want them to go to neighborhoods or near churches or schools or anything like that.

He can run the floor as well as anyone I can remember for a big man. God just said, 'Here you go, you're 6-10.' His damn hands are like gloves. He's quick and strong and he can jump. And he's got a nice touch around the basket. I think he can become a very, very good low-post player.

He was damn sure tenacious at getting at this thing, ... It's yet to be seen whether he can stand up to the heat of the matter.

My organization, my colleagues and I, are paid to run hotels in good times and fair times. We're professionals. That's what we do. I don't give a damn about the short-term market implications.

My mother didn't have any other options. But to be able to educate women now that there are options - damn it, I am going to work my hardest so that there aren't kids that go through what I went through, and grow up with so little self worth.

Look at the two New York quarterbacks, Joe Namath and myself. We've done a lot with one damn game. That's just the truth.

That commission has done some damn dirty things. I wouldn't put it past them. I know I'm going to be there.

I will interview bigwigs if I get the chance, but you are seldom surprised by people in power - you've got to get awfully damn close to get anything new.

L.A. runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy. I've heard people say there's a limit to the number of years you can stay in this city without going slightly mad. It's just too damn sunny in every dimension - weather-wise, socially and professionally.