Danny Wallace Quotes

Essays just aren't my thing: no matter how hard I tried, it seemed I was always a bit average.

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• First responders will be on the frontlines if there is a terrorist attack in our communities, and we must provide them with the tools they need to do their difficult jobs.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Difficult
  • Need
  • Tools

• Lipgloss is my calling!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Calling

• Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Truth
  • Joy
  • Wisdom

• Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

  

  Maimonides
  • Man
  • Education
  • Day

• Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Country
  • Growing
  • Decisions

• Judges should interpret the law, not make it.

  

  Lamar S. Smith
  • Law
  • Should
  • Judges

• It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'

  

  M. Ward
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Me

• When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Rock

• I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with. That's also where the anxiety comes from.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Anxiety
  • Scared

• I mean, my music career and my acting career - if I want to do them to the extent that I eventually do want to get to, it's going to be a bit of a balancing act. But I'm hoping they'll just go hand in hand.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Music
  • Want
  • Career

• That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Kind
  • Take

• Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Story
  • Tell
  • Decide

• What I love about my job is challenging myself and finding weird, different roles.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Different
  • Love
  • Job

• Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Writing
  • Kids
  • Think

• I like to support local record stores.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Support
  • Like
  • Record

• This has always been a small agency with a big mission. But these days, especially, we have to stand up every day, deliver value into the hands of small-business owners and get taxpayers the biggest bang for their buck so that we can help these job creators do what they need to do.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Up
  • Business
  • Job

• I love speculating about solutions to problems in mathematics. I have no interest whatever in sudoku. But I do look at chess and bridge problems in newspapers. I find that relaxing.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Problems
  • Interest
  • Relaxing

• I don't think there's ever been anyone like me that's lasted. And I'm going to keep on lasting.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Think
  • Me
  • Like

• Smart is an elusive concept. There's a certain sharpness, an ability to absorb new facts. To ask an insightful question. To relate to domains that may not seem connected at first. A certain creativity that allows people to be effective.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Smart
  • Ability
  • Facts

• The pursuit of God is not a part-time, weekend exercise. If it is, chances are you will experience a part-time, weekend freedom. Abiding requires a kind of staying power. The pursuit is relentless. It hungers and thirsts. It pants as the deer after the mountain brook. It takes the kingdom by storm...The pursuit of God is a pursuit of passion. Indifference will not do. To abide in the Word is to hang on tenaciously. A weak grip will soon slip away. Discipleship requires staying power. We sign up for duration. We do not graduate until heaven.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• Well, one is inspired by the whole of life, one's own and somebody else's. You know how sometimes you hear great music, and music is completely untranslatable into words, into any words. A certain tension that is born when one listens to music could aid you in expressing something absolutely different.

  

  Wislawa Szymborska
  • Different
  • Inspired

• You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.

  

  Isabel Allende
  • Rich
  • Give
  • Have

• At 16, I was more resilient and easygoing than I am now.

  

  Lydia Millet

• Essays just aren't my thing: no matter how hard I tried, it seemed I was always a bit average.

  

  Danny Wallace