Daniel Johnston Quotes

Most of the worst things said about me, I've said myself.

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• If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Life
  • Country
  • American

• Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Hell

• I was at UGA playing with Champ Bailey and Hines Ward - both guys who will probably touch the Hall of Fame one day.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Day
  • Fame
  • Touch

• As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn almost entirely from the progressive tradition, but as an affirmation of them.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • War
  • Child
  • Values

• On the whole, I'd rather be in Philidelphia.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Whole
  • Rather

• Every era has its own list of ingredients that are considered exotic and then, 15 years later, they're not.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Years
  • Own
  • List

• I got behind that pencil and nothing happened for many years, but since they put me in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, I've turned around. I took a good look at myself and said, I think it's time to get back at work.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• My natural hair is jet black. I used to have it down to my bum. And I went through a phase of being obsessed with fake tan. So from the age of 14 to 16, I looked like an Apache Indian!

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Age
  • Black
  • Hair

• Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Law
  • Taken
  • Army

• Each person's body type is different, and they need to understand that food should be eaten in regular portions.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Different
  • Food
  • Body

• Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Active
  • Worldwide
  • Iranians

• I regard it as the irresistible effect of the Copernican astronomy to have made the theological scheme of redemption absolutely incredible

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Jack Benny: We're a little late, so good night, folks.

  

  Jack Benny
  • Good
  • Night

• When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia and bribe the police.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Live
  • Power
  • Friends

• Let us pray...Oh, uh, please don't feel like you can't participate if you're not Christian, because this is a prayer for all faiths...

  

  Bo Burnham
  • Christian
  • Prayer

• Blue eyes wash off sometimes.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Eyes
  • Blue

• Exeat aulaqui volt esse pius. Virtus et summa potestasnon coeunt; semper metuet quem saeva pudebunt.

  

  Lucan

• In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Education
  • Genius
  • Judgment

• I've traveled to 50 countries, but I've never been to heaven.

  

  Laurel Lea
  • Heaven

• Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Tolerance

• One who loves must learn fear. One who fears must learn love. The thinker must do. The doer must think. The pacifist must fight, the fighter must find peace. If you flow as a river, burn as a fire. If you burn as a furnace, flow as a river. If you fly as a bird, sit firm as a rock. If you sit firmly, then fly as a bird. Be a fire that flows. A rock that flies. Love with fear and fear with love. For we are not fire, not water, not air, not rocks, not thoughts, not deeds, not fear, not love. We are G-dly beings.

  

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson
  • Thinking
  • Water
  • Fighting

• This appearance of the Evening was... just after a very heavy rain - more rain in the night and very - ?light wind which continued all the - day following while making – this sketch observed the Moon easing – very beautifully... in the due East over the - heavy clouds from which the late showers – had fallen.

  

  John Constable
  • Night
  • Light
  • Moon

• I have a lot of courage. I'm a realist.

  

  Elisabeth Rohm
  • Courage
  • Realist

• Most of the worst things said about me, I've said myself.

  

  Daniel Johnston