"We were about to give up and call……" — John D. MacDonald
"We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge."
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27 Quotes by John D. MacDonald
John D. MacDonald has 27 quotes on this site.
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Friendships like marriages are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.
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Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your…
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I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to…
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You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is…
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Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way…
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Now it stands to reason, mister, any damn fool stares into the sun long enough, he'll end up seeing exactly…
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If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in…
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Old friend, there are people—young and old—that I like, and people that I do not like. The former are always…
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When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your…
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The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human…
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It's no good telling somebody they're trying too hard. It's very much like ordering a child to go stand in…
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I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you…
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We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead…
— Bernard Baruch
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In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay…
— Jo Brand
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I've never stabbed, hurt, killed, stolen, anything, but I went to jail for a year. What is that? My pastor…
— Foxy Brown
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Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.
— William F. Buckley, Jr.
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I'm learning English at the moment. I can say 'Big Ben', 'Hello Rodney', 'Tower Bridge' and 'Loo'.
— Cher
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Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans-liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal-the largest voluntary migrations in…
— George H. W. Bush
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The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren't quite ready to commit suicide but…
— George Carlin
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Nearly all Americans have ancestors who braved the oceans - liberty-loving risk takers in search of an ideal - the…
— George W. Bush
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Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous…
— Dennis Conner
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If the building of a bridge does not enrich the awareness of those who work on it, then the bridge…
— Frantz Fanon
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Until recently, over 98 percent of teachers just got one word of feedback: Satisfactory. If all my bridge coach ever…
— Bill Gates
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My wife made me join a bridge club... I jump off next Tuesday.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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