Daniel Pinkwater Quotes

Mr. Breton didn't know about location, location, location.

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• The rule of improvisation I took to heart was, 'Don't think.' I tend to over-think things, so that was a big lesson for me.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Heart
  • Think
  • Me

• If you would make the most of yourself, never picture yourself as anything different from what you would actually be, the man or woman you long to become.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Different
  • Long
  • Man

• Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Country
  • Think
  • Always

• If you look at weak democracies, the oligarchies that have taken undue control of them always seek to tamper with the vote. It is important for oligarchs to have elections to give their guy a veneer of legitimacy - and important for the vote always to turn out 'their way.'

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Important
  • Guy
  • Control

• He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Call
  • Falls
  • Niagara

• More are the names of God and infinite are the forms through which He may be approached. In whatever name and form you worship Him, through them you will realise Him.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • May
  • Name

• If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

  

  Rachel True
  • You
  • Enough
  • Where

• Evil report carries further than any applause.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Evil
  • Carries
  • Applause

• 'Moonlight' is a story that hasn't been told. Whether placed as queer black cinema or urban male cinema, the lack of coming-of-age films featuring people like Chiron and set in places like inner-city Miami is pronounced and unfortunate.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • People
  • Age
  • Black

• I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That's me.

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Want
  • House
  • Me

• From wrestling to my hip-hop thing, I've just been able to do so much and meet so many crazy characters.

  

  Randy Savage
  • Crazy
  • Wrestling
  • Hip Hop

• The Taliban has not, in my judgment, in any significant way changed their fundamental goal and objective, which is to take over Afghanistan and return to running that country. It doesn't mean that we shouldn't have negotiation talks with them. I think we should. But we've got to be clear-eyed about it.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Country
  • Think
  • Running

• Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• I have never had to look up a definition of honor. I knew instinctively what it was. It is something I had the day I was born, and I never had to question where it came from or by what right it was mine. If I was stripped of my honor, I would choose death as certainly and unemotionally as I clean my shoes in the morning. Honor is the presence of God in man.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Up
  • God
  • Death

• When you have a stroke, you must talk slowly to be understood, and I've discovered that when I talk slowly, people listen. They think I'm going to say something important!

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • People
  • Important

• The vast majority of what I've seen written about me is not true. My family and friends - the people who matter to me - they know the real story.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • People
  • Real
  • Family

• Losing my parents, who I admired, loved and needed, it took a long time to be able to move on.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Time
  • Long
  • Parents

• Peppers, garlic, hazelnuts and brazil nuts make my mouth, tongue and eyes swell and itch within minutes of eating them.

  

  Andrea McLean
  • Eyes

• Right now, my daughter's just rolling her eyes at everything I do; I'm just an embarrassment.

  

  Elizabeth Perkins
  • Eyes
  • Daughter

• The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.

  

  Ben Nighthorse Campbell
  • American

• I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore, Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more;Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be, Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Bird
  • Rose
  • Sorrow

• There's really no substitute for working hard. I think that's my biggest talent. There are always people who are funnier and more talented than I am, but I don't take anything for granted and I commit myself 100% to each of my roles.

  

  Ken Jeong
  • People

• My daughter is my greatest inspiration.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Inspiration
  • Daughter

• Mr. Breton didn't know about location, location, location.

  

  Daniel Pinkwater