John Darnielle Quotes
I don't sit down and say I'm going to write a song about this or that. They are never mapped out.John Darnielle
Quotes to Explore
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
Ogden Nash -
If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
Bayard Rustin -
In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
Taylor Sheridan -
If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
Those of us raised in modern cities tend to notice horizontal and vertical lines more quickly than lines at other orientations. In contrast, people raised in nomadic tribes do a better job noticing lines skewed at intermediate angles, since Mother Nature tends to work with a wider array of lines than most architects.
Sam Kean -
Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
C. S. Lewis
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I just think with acting, there's not a time limit on it.
Lance Bass NSYNC -
I have me. I have God. I have my son. Everything else is extra.
Karrine Steffans -
I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.
Rachel Sklar -
Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.
Lara St. John -
You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
Ted Cruz -
In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
Patrick White
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
A. A. Milne -
I'm interested in complexity, in the mathematical sense, as well as the idiomatic sense. The idea of emergence - that it's possible for complex patterns to arise out of many simple interactions - is fascinating.
Hari Kunzru -
All issues of crime are better addressed at the state level.
Rand Paul -
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould -
I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
Mandy Patinkin -
You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
Jack Kerouac
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The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
H. L. Mencken -
I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.
Diana Ross -
I like to work long-term on projects. It's fun to go in and out and get in there and do something and leave it behind, but to me, the real satisfaction is doing five years on a show, where you're really just up to your eyes in it. It's part of your life. That's what makes me the happiest.
Paula Malcomson -
I don't kick dressing room doors, or the cat - or even journalists
Arsene Wenger -
I'm either going to have the career I want doing films, or I'll do something else - I'll be gone.
Matthew Fox -
I don't sit down and say I'm going to write a song about this or that. They are never mapped out.
John Darnielle