Darren Shan (Darren O'Shaughnessy) Quotes

One of the things I wanted to do with my own books was bridge the gap between 'Goosebumps' and adult horror.

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• All religions have been made by men.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Men
  • Made
  • Religions

• A woman going out with a younger man feels like the last taboo.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Last

• Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Black
  • Popular
  • New

• 'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Country
  • Problems
  • Solutions

• So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Know
  • Price
  • Late

• I do not connect fashion to elegance. Elegance is in the wilderness, and fashion is in the domestic.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Fashion
  • Wilderness
  • Connect

• When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.

  

  Zach Woods
  • Up
  • Time
  • Free

• I think Dwight loves being number two. I don't think he has any desire to be number one. He wants to be number two no matter where he goes. It's like Avis. 'We try harder.' That's Dwight.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • Think
  • Desire
  • Try

• Fear controls you.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • You
  • Fear
  • Controls

• I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Because

• When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I haven't done it, I'll say yes. Just so I can try something new. You never know what you might like.

  

  Osric Chau
  • Know
  • New
  • Say

• That is the real spiritual awakening, when something emerges from within you that is deeper than who you thought you were. So, the person is still there, but one could almost say that something more powerful shines through the person.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Real
  • Powerful
  • Spiritual

• In this life, all you need is for someone to believe in you.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Need

• When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Up
  • Music
  • Rock

• I think Deborah Harry has a really sexy, cool and quite playful sex-kitten kind of style I really like.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Style
  • Cool
  • Sex

• I was a gymnast for many years before I was a dancer, so it comes in pretty handy when we do stunts.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Pretty
  • Years
  • Before

• Let women issue a declaration of independence sexually, and absolutely refuse to cohabit with men until they are acknowledged as equals in everything, and the victory would be won in a single week.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Men
  • Women
  • Single

• On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between two logical views of the universe: the Catholic-Christian and the Individualistic Monist. And bridges are made to go over, not to stand upon.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Question
  • Universe
  • Christian

• When someone builds a bridge, he uses engineers who have been certified as knowing what they are doing. Yet when someone builds you a software program, he has no similar certification, even though your safety may be just as dependent upon that software working as it is upon the bridge supporting your weight.

  

  Dave Parnas
  • May
  • Safety
  • Bridge

• But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Great
  • Long
  • Fear

• Ages ago, my girlfriend had this little park near her house, with a bridge running over a stream and I set up all these candles on the bridge. But when I called her and told her she said it was too dark and she wasn't coming out.

  

  Harry Styles One Direction
  • House
  • Girlfriend
  • Bridge

• One of the things I wanted to do with my own books was bridge the gap between 'Goosebumps' and adult horror.

  

  Darren Shan
  • Bridge