Darn Quotes

So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way... (Poul Anderson)
It was darn nigh impossible for women in rock in the '70s. There wasn't a mold if you were a woman and you were in the entertainment in the '70s. You were probably a disco diva or a folk singer, or simply ornamental. Radio would play only one woman per hour. View quote
Ann Wilson
No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball. View quote
Casey Stengel
If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream. View quote
Barry Goldwater
If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [ sic] darn shortcut you can. View quote
Larry Wall
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy. View quote
Bill Bowerman
Two kinds of ballplayers aren't worth a darn: One that never does what he's told, and one who does nothin' except what he's told. View quote
Bum Phillips
I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too. View quote
Barry Watson
I've been blessed, acne never knocked on my door. I think I look pretty darn good. View quote
Deborah Norville
Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching. View quote
Earl Weaver
I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low. (Pam Dawber)
Women waited 144 years before earning suffrage. If a mature, multiparty democracy was so darn easy, everybody would have one. View quote
Thomas P.M. Barnett
Hillary is uniquely qualified to seize the opportunities and reduce the risks we face. And she is still the best darn change-maker I have ever known. You could drop her into any trouble spot, pick one, come back in a month and somehow, some way she will have made it better. That is just who she is. View quote
Bill Clinton
It was so darn quiet you could hear your hair grow. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
The whole question of pictures made to order is a darn peculiar form of merchandize. Buyers seem to like the tiresome MP blue, for one thing, and girls having a pleasant chat for another. They must look pleasant like Daybreak and Garden of Allah and not contemplative like Hilltop, Stars and Dreaming, which are not so popular .... There are countless artists whose shoes I'm not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer! ... I'm beginning to doubt my judgment! View quote
Maxfield Parrish
Jack: [out of shot] Darn right I am. View quote
Jack Benny
Look, PETA! If God hadn't wanted us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them so darn. View quote
Stephen Colbert
Now I know, I know that every uh speaker comes before you and says they identify with Columbus but I really mean it. Think about it; the guy was faced with questions at home about whether his global efforts were worth a darn. Some critics want him to cut his voice short... he even faced the threat of mutiny (laughs) and yet Columbus persevered and won. Not a bad analogy in my (laughs) view so I know this isn't political. Now I admit Columbus also had to worry all about at that time about a lack of wind. I... I don't have that problem with Congress. View quote
George H. W. Bush
The first step is, if you don't believe it yourself your team darn sure won't. View quote
Rex Ryan
Ozzy Osbourne has his bats, and I have that darn "convert them to Christianity" quote. Some may not like what I said, but I'm still waiting to hear a better suggestion. View quote
Ann Coulter
Both Rowling and Meyer, they're speaking directly to young people. ... The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can't write worth a darn. She's not very good. (Stephen King)
Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? View quote
Jack London
I'm so darn glad he let me try it again, 'Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin, I'm so glad that I know more than I knew then, Gonna keep on trying until I reach my highest ground. View quote
Stevie Wonder
Sir Michael Spicer: What are the characteristics of old Labour that he dislikes so much? Tony Blair: I am afraid that the Hon. Gentleman will have to repeat that. Sir Michael Spicer: What are the characteristics of old Labour that he dislikes so much? Tony Blair: Basically, that it never won two successive terms of Government and, perhaps, that it never put the Conservative party flat on its back, which is where it is now. Thankfully, we are running an economy with low inflation, low mortgage rates and low unemployment; fortunately, we are doing a darn sight better than the Government of whom the right hon. Gentleman was a Member, who had-I thank him for allowing me to mention this-interest rates at 10 per cent. for four years, 3 million unemployed and two recessions. Whether it is old Labour or new Labour, it is a darn sight better than the Tories. View quote
Tony Blair
Jigsaw Lady is the working title of a science fiction novel I've had in my head for darn near 15 years. I think I'll start work on it next year (in all my spare time) but I'd like to get it finished some day. View quote
Raymond E. Feist