John Darnielle Quotes

My songs tend to sprint toward some epiphany and then explode.

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• Continuity is at the heart of conservatism: ecology serves that heart.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Heart
  • Conservatism
  • Ecology

• Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Art
  • May
  • Dream

• Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Writing
  • Fun
  • Language

• Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Music
  • Men
  • Man

• It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Together
  • True

• If I am given a formula, and I am ignorant of its meaning, it cannot teach me anything, but if I already know it what does the formula teach me?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Teach
  • Meaning
  • Formula

• But it's the particularity of a place, the physical experience of being in a place, that makes it onto the page. That's why I don't just do library research. I very rarely write about somewhere I haven't been.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Why
  • Experience
  • Library

• I slept in van Gogh's bed. I worked in the room where he painted. I saw the place where he was cared for when he cut off his ear. I lived in the jail cell where he stayed. And I looked out the window. You remember that picture of the cornfields through the bars? That was what I saw.

  

  Irving Stone
  • Remember
  • Picture
  • Window

• I think most of us sense that it is a responsibility of the humanities to try to help better the conduct of human beings in their lives and manifold professional activities.

  

  J. Irwin Miller
  • Help
  • Responsibility
  • Better

• I don't do very much for beauty. I use very simple things on my skin. I haven't got time. I would always get facials and then come home laden with product, and pay a lot of money and never use it. Anyway, one day a dermatologist told me to use Cetaphil to clean my face and as a moisturizer, and that's what I do.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Time
  • Money
  • Home

• I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Women
  • Today
  • Beauty

• You would never say to a man, 'do you like playing strong men?' You just wouldn't say that.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Men
  • Man
  • Strong

• The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.

  

  Carl Clinton Van Doren
  • Broken
  • Down
  • Discovery

• I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • School
  • Business
  • Acting

• Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Political
  • Decide
  • Banking

• The act of contemplation then creates the thing created.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Act
  • Contemplation
  • Then

• Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Real
  • Obstacles
  • Imaginary

• We see a friend’s eye as one and indivisible. A stranger’s eye we take in part by part: the white, the iris, and the pupil.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Friend

• Republicans campaign like Libertarians and govern like Democrats.

  

  Harry Browne

• When you're a celebrity, people think they know you, but they don't have a clue.

  

  Albert William Upton
  • People
  • Celebrity
  • Clue

• I thought that marketing was a way to be creative in business but quickly learned all creative stuff happens at the ad agency.

  

  Dee Rees
  • Business
  • Marketing

• There are 30,000 days in your life. When I was 24, I realized I'm almost 9,000 days down. There are no warm-ups, no practice rounds, no reset buttons. Your biggest risk isn't failing, it's getting too comfortable. Every day, we're writing a few more words of a story. I wanted my story to be an adventure and that's made all the difference.

  

  Drew Houston
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Words

• Because these thingsWill change.We can see it now.These wallsThat they put up,To hold us backWill fall down.It's a revolution,It's how we'll become.Who we'reSupposed to be.We'll sing hallelujah;We'll sing hallelujah.Oh.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Revolution

• My songs tend to sprint toward some epiphany and then explode.

  

  John Darnielle