John Darnielle Quotes

I'd played with Jon Wurster as a duo just for a lark.

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• I don't think many of us launched ourselves into the world of writing books fully formed.

  

  Val McDermid
  • World
  • Writing
  • Think

• I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Happy
  • Song
  • Know

• Previously, young children had to be shown by their parents how to use a mouse or a remote, and the connection between what they were doing with their hand and what was happening on the screen took some time to grasp. But with the iPad, the connection is obvious, even to toddlers.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Time
  • Children
  • Parents

• Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?

  

  Yael Stone
  • Country
  • History
  • Australia

• You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Life
  • Up
  • Die

• Never has a strong, responsible trade union movement been so needed. With austerity policies biting hard and with no evidence that they are working, people at work need the TUC to speak up for them now more than ever.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Jill Clayburgh's life so closely paralleled mine, I feel as though a part of me lived a little through her and died a little with her.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Life
  • Feel
  • Died

• We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Age
  • Old
  • Youth

• There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Mad
  • Sane
  • Madman

• Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

  

  Pat Robertson
  • History
  • Politics
  • Fool

• This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Politics
  • Separate
  • Match

• We always keep God waiting while we admit more importunate suitors.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • God
  • Always
  • Waiting

• That professionalism comes from what I've watched people do on the set. I'm just trying to be as respectful to the environment, as they have been. I think I still act like a kid. I just try to be as professional as I can.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • People
  • Trying
  • Environment

• My friends in the opposition have forgotten that the constitution of the Philippines was amended in 1973 with their participation. The constitution mandates the administration, including the Batasan, or legislature, to convert slowly into a semiparliamentary form of government. The president in such a situation can issue decrees and edicts.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Friends
  • Government

• All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing.

  

  Samuel Beckett

• I loved Heidi Klum, but now I know Kathy Ireland is on the cover of Forbes, so that’s pretty amazing as well.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Pretty
  • Amazing

• Ein Mittler ist derjenige, der Göttliches in sich wahrnimmt, und sich selbst vernichtend Preis giebt, um dieses Göttliche zu verkündigen, mitzutheilen, und darzustellen allen Menschen in Sitten und Thaten, in Worten und Werken.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

• No, I am not pregnant. I am fat. And, as the Prime Minister, its my right to be fat if I want to.

  

  Benazir Bhutto

• I don't want to hang out with some guy I just like.

  

  Leighton Meester
  • Guy

• We are part of each other and part of something bigger than our own egos. An artist should... bring into the world some vision. Dancers should ask, "What is their work in the service of?"

  

  Bill T. Jones
  • Artist
  • Vision
  • Dancers

• A week or so ago I did a two hour book review in Baltimore Maryland.

  

  Betty Hill
  • Book

• D.C. fans, I think, are so good. They just come up to me, and they're so nice and so polite and just, 'Hey, I hope you have a great career,' and 'How are you doing, everything's good?' That's pretty much where they leave it at.

  

  Bryce Harper
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity - are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • May
  • Faith

• I'd played with Jon Wurster as a duo just for a lark.

  

  John Darnielle