John Darnielle Quotes

I think there are some writers - like, if you read Kerouac, I think you probably need to take a little break before you sit down to the typewriter because he's the type of writer whose voice infects you.

John Darnielle

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• I wake up every morning knowing how ridiculously lucky I am to be able to do what I love for a living, and that sense of wonder never, ever wears off.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Sense
  • Living
  • Lucky

• I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Sorry
  • Talk

• It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Get

• The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Food
  • Best
  • Diet

• The team is in great shape, the coaching staff, the front office. Just things feel really good chemistry-wise across the board.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Great
  • Team

• Comedy was why I got into acting the first place. Peter Sellers was a huge influence on my wanting to act. I grew up with him and found him hysterical. The Pink Panther films were an inspiration, from my earliest childhood days, when I was watching them with my brother and my dad.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Comedy
  • Childhood
  • Influence

• 'Six Feet Under' was so much about life. Sure, it had a lot to do with death, but that's the fun - that now I became a dead person.

  

  Frances Conroy
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Death

• I said publicly last year that I wanted 2012 to be a great season, not just a good season. We certainly had a very good season and perhaps exceeded a few expectations. But Broncos fans, you and I know what a great season looks like.

  

  Pat Bowlen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Year

• I could have coached better.

  

  Dan Devine
  • Better
  • Could
  • Coached

• I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Trying
  • Guy
  • Celebrity

• If I had the day off and knew everyone else was voting, I wouldn't miss it. It would become a routine part of my responsibility as a citizen - like paying taxes, only less soul crushing.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Soul
  • Day
  • Responsibility

• Probably most successful songwriters have an innate songwriting ability.

  

  Barry Mann
  • Successful
  • Ability
  • Most

• For me, the kitchen is the most special room in the house. It's a place for adventure - not drudgery, but discovery, sharing and showing off with friends, trying new ideas.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Trying
  • Friends
  • House

• My own agenda is going to be followed, and that agenda is to maintain very good relations with the international community, and Lebanon has to fulfill its commitments.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • Good
  • Community
  • Own

• After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Good
  • Failure
  • Goal

• When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • You
  • Amazing
  • Human

• Chess was treated by the Soviet authorities as a very important and useful ideological tool to demonstrate the intellectual superiority of the Soviet communist regime over the decadent West.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Important
  • Chess

• An aphorism is a generalization of sorts, and our present-day writers seem more at home with the particular.

  

  Anatole Broyard
  • Home
  • Present

• I recommend marriage to everyone.

  

  Divyanka Tripathi
  • Marriage

• People still retain the errors of their childhood, their nation, and their age, long after they have accepted the truths needed to refute them.

  

  Marquis de Condorcet
  • People
  • Long
  • Age

• I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but I found my writing starting to get more and more referential to cinema.

  

  Jim Jarmusch
  • Writing

• A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Death
  • Society
  • Marriage

• There's gonna' be a lotta slow singin' and flower bringin' if my burglar alarm starts ringin'.

  

  The Notorious B.I.G.
  • Flower

• I think there are some writers - like, if you read Kerouac, I think you probably need to take a little break before you sit down to the typewriter because he's the type of writer whose voice infects you.

  

  John Darnielle