Dan Gutman Quotes

Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.

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• Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Memorial
  • Parties
  • Cocktail

• I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Writing
  • Reader

• The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • People
  • Habit
  • Speech

• Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Important
  • Thing

• I am happy in Paris.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Happy
  • Paris

• I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time.

  

  Mako
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Child

• Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Years
  • Something
  • Tried

• Any glamorous moment you might mistake me for having is always pretend.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Mistake
  • Moment
  • Glamorous

• A typical complaint of married women with children is that their job stress tired them out so that they have little quality emotion and energy left for their children, much less their husbands.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Women
  • Children
  • Job

• As for my style, for my vision of the cinema, editing is not simply one aspect; it's the aspect.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Style
  • Vision

• The more unconscious individuals, groups, or nations are, the more likely it is that egoic pathology will assume the form of physical violence. Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right or another wrong. With very unconscious people, arguments can easily lead to physical violence.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • Violence
  • Ego

• Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Life
  • Progress

• It's time we stopped ignoring the environment. Let's not let another election go by without making this a high priority.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Time
  • High
  • Environment

• I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Country
  • Family
  • Friends

• I actually feel I'm in a much better place than I've ever been because I'm thankful people still love the songs that I've written, and they seem to like me. And they come to the shows in droves, and they get all excited, and I can still hit all the notes, and I don't look terrible.

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • Thankful

• To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca

• Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence.

  

  Louis D. Brandeis

• I could see myself doing a cooking show.

  

  Marcel Theo Hall
  • Cooking

• As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.

  

  Matthew Weiner
  • People
  • Community
  • Violence

• In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles

• Be brave. Cowards always get hurt. Brave men generally come out unharmed.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • Men
  • Hurt
  • Brave

• From Texas to New Hampshire and everywhere in between, we know that support for policies such as expanded background checks continue to be popular in both parties.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Know
  • Support
  • Popular

• It's the typical mid-life crisis kind of thing, where you just stop and wonder, 'Should I go back to university and get a law degree?' I kind of looked around me and thought, 'What kind of idiot am I that I've just spent the last 10 years writing novels? Financially, I'm pretty much where I was when I was 28.'

  

  Lynn Coady
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• Sometimes we spend so much time and energy thinking about where we want to go that we don't notice where we happen to be.

  

  Dan Gutman
  • Thinking
  • Sometimes
  • Happen