John Darnielle Quotes

I think any real one-sheet for an album would say, 'Well, here's what I've been doing.' And that would be it.

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• Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Eyes
  • Worst
  • Blind

• My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Always
  • My Life

• Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Work
  • Country
  • Me

• Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • People
  • Up
  • Friends

• Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Want
  • You
  • Reach

• I hope my tongue in prune juice smothers, If I belittle dogs and mothers.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Hope
  • Dogs
  • Tongue

• A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Writer
  • Exist
  • Without

• In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. It deals with time travel. I like stories about time travel. It's a story about people living in modern day that travel back to the Edo era. Those things really interest me.

  

  Yuji Horii
  • People
  • Time
  • Day

• I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.

  

  Yaya Han
  • People
  • Up
  • Together

• I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Up
  • Like
  • Technique

• My mom would always play me a lot of late-'50s, late-'60s rock.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Me
  • Play
  • Mom

• I learned that the first technology appeared in the form of stone tools, 2.6 million years ago. First entertainment comes evidence from flutes that are 35,000 years old. And evidence for first design comes 75,000 years old - beads. And you can do the same with your genes and track them back in time.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Design

• While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Through

• There is an interaction and action, reaction between two people. One should show honesty in a relationship. Be honest to your partner and tell him everything. How long can you do things with dishonesty and that's wrong. Don't get into a relationship if you can't be honest.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Long
  • Action

• I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Singing
  • Guitar
  • Kitchen

• I wrote my first play as extra credit for my fourth grade English class. 'Can Helen Stop Smoking' was a satire on the ill effects of cigarette smoking. My friend Vicki Haugabrook played as Helen and I directed the show. At the time, my brother Vince was leading the campaign to get our grandmother to quit.

  

  T'Keyah Crystal Keymah
  • Time
  • Stop
  • Friend

• I'm not rushing into my divorce, because I'm not looking to get married tomorrow, so I don't have a deadline. I'm not rushing it. So when it's time, and it's supposed to happen, it will.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Time
  • Divorce

• If you're asking me, would I have voted for Mitt Romney, the answer is absolutely not. Emphatically not. I cannot envision a world in which I would have voted for Mitt Romney unless I sustained a massive concussion.

  

  John Oliver
  • World

• To make fluffy scrambled eggs, the best trick is to whisk in a splash of water and nothing else. Cream, milk, and other liquids drag the eggs down!

  

  Alex Guarnaschelli
  • Water

• Gratitude, warm, sincere, intense, when it takes possession of the bosom, fills the soul to overflowing and scarce leaves room for any other sentiment or thought.

  

  John Quincy Adams
  • Soul
  • Gratitude

• At the end of the day, the Irvine Co. is slowly being transformed. Our long-term goal is to transform what was once an agricultural company to a development company, and to that, the next, final step is to create a large real estate investment company.

  

  Donald Bren
  • Long
  • Real

• I think any real one-sheet for an album would say, 'Well, here's what I've been doing.' And that would be it.

  

  John Darnielle
  • Real