John Darnielle Quotes

I don't have a favorite drink. I don't do favorites of anything, practically.

John Darnielle

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• One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Want
  • You
  • Successful

• The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Time
  • History
  • New

• A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • People
  • Said
  • Rebel

• Sometimes I wonder where I am from. I am either way ahead or I come from another world. I don't recognise this world.

  

  Waris Dirie
  • World
  • Wonder
  • Recognise

• In the Seventies, a lot of executions via electric chair failed because of technical problems. Seed tells the true story of someone who survived and sought revenge. They buried him alive to make it seem he was dead.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • True
  • Problems
  • Revenge

• You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Heart
  • Death
  • Sometimes

• I'm lucky to come from a very musical family. If you put a record on and turn the volume up, there's a pretty good chance you'll have a lot of people dancing very quickly.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I don't know that I'd call myself an optimist.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Optimist

• All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding

• Generations of gun owners have taught their sons and daughters that it takes as much patience and skill to be a good shot as it does to be a good steward of a powerful weapon.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Good
  • Powerful
  • Gun

• Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Me
  • Fans
  • Maybe

• 'Anthem' was the record that almost didn't get made for a completely different reason than 'Underneath.'

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Different
  • Reason
  • Almost

• I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Time
  • World
  • Women

• The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • World
  • Challenge
  • Road

• As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Science
  • Intelligence

• I've had a few encounters: At a restaurant, this woman that was like, 'Oh my God, oh my God, can we take a picture with you? My son said not to, but I just had to. You my favorite 'Devils Girl!'

  

  Taylour Paige
  • God
  • Girl
  • Woman

• Through selfless work, love of God grows in the heart. Then through his grace one realize him in course of time. God can be seen. One can talk to him as I am talking to you.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Time
  • Work
  • God

• I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Believe
  • Passion
  • Spiritual

• I've been spending quite a bit of time in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.K. as Mint is expanding globally, and I'm personally doing much of the research and business deals to make them happen.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Time
  • Business
  • Research

• The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Famous

• War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities.

  

  Bela Kiraly
  • War
  • Reason
  • Hostilities

• When Shakespeare wrote, he wrote for the people. I know he got commissioned by kings and queens, but he also actually was writing plays for people to go and see, to take them on a journey of recognition so that they could see themselves within the characters on the stage. We as actors and theater companies and film companies have forgotten that.

  

  Eamonn Walker
  • People
  • Shakespeare
  • Wrote

• Code writers, they are my idols.

  

  will.i.am
  • Code
  • Idols

• I don't have a favorite drink. I don't do favorites of anything, practically.

  

  John Darnielle