Dan Snow Quotes

A stone that looks satisfied with its position reflects the sense of ease the waller felt when placing it there.

Dan Snow

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• I'm a mum, so my wardrobe consists of sweaters and jeans. As long as I don't leave the house forgetting my jeans, I count that as a fashion success.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Long
  • House
  • Success

• I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in one go: 'Life's Too Short' isn't funny to me.

  

  Ian Watson
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Pain

• I have all of the Apple products. Everything I've ever written, I've written on a Mac. My first computer, my roommates and I chipped in, and we got that first Macintosh - 128K. It had as much memory as a greeting card that plays music.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Music
  • Memory
  • Apple

• After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Good
  • Book
  • Practice

• 'Air' is very placeless - it's set in many different countries, and much of the story is about going places rather than being places. 'Air' is about travelers, and I'm a chronic traveler.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Different
  • Air
  • Story

• The most important thing is to not waste your money.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Important
  • Money
  • Waste

• People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • People
  • Doing
  • Need

• My sister and I had resolved never to become teachers because the job seemed to demand so much. My mother always seemed to be working. Our dining room table was cluttered with papers waiting to be read and graded.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Job
  • Mother
  • Waiting

• Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Gold
  • Lead
  • Silver

• As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • War
  • Mistakes
  • Celebrate

• One can only become a philosopher, but not be one. As one believes he is a philosopher, he stops being one.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Being
  • Become
  • Only

• I've sung in the shower for years.

  

  Chris Pine

• I'm trying to be myself more and more. The more confidence you have in yourself... the more you realize that this is you, and life isn't long. So get on with it!

  

  Kylie Minogue
  • Life
  • Long
  • Trying

• The union of the mind and intuition which brings about illumination, and the development which the Sufis seek, is based upon love.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Mind
  • Development
  • Intuition

• Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Broken
  • Fly
  • Wings

• Once a maggot, always a maggot.

  

  Christy Romano
  • Maggots

• She came awake, stomach rumbling, and opened her eyes to see a plate being held right under her nose. When she reached for it, Shane snatched it back. "Nuh-uh. Mine." "Share!" she demanded. "Man, you are one grabby girlfriend." She grinned. It always made her feel so fiercly warm inside to hear him say that- the girlfriend part, not the grabby part. "If you love me, you'll give me a taco." "Seriously? That's all you got? What about you'll do sexy, illegal things to me for a taco?" "Not for a taco," she said. "I'm not cheap." "They're brisket tacos." "Now you're talking.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Eyes
  • Sexy

• Keys," she repeated, and slowly stepped back. "What do you mean, keys?" "Car keys. As in, give them up. Now." Shane had that look -- hard, and no bullshit. "We don't have time for your drama, Monica. Nobody does.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Time
  • She

• I remember watching Robert Powell many years ago. He did 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I remember thinking that was probably my favorite. Once I got the role, I didn't want to watch anything, because it only influences what you do.

  

  Juan Pablo Di Pace
  • Role
  • Watching
  • Influences

• In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.

  

  Reed Hastings
  • Aggressive

• It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think you've always been nine years old and will always be. When you're thirty, it seems you've always been balanced there on that bright rim of middle life. And then when you turn seventy, you are always and forever seventy. You're in the present, you're trapped in a young now or an old now, but there is no other now to be seen.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Trying
  • Forever
  • Tea

• It's a good thing we're pretty to look at," I said as Lend sat down on the orange plastic seats next to me. "Because we don't have much else going for us as bowlers.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Looks
  • Next
  • Sat

• I love working with actors. If you cast the right person in the right part at the right time, they make you look like a better writer and director than you really are.

  

  Todd Solondz
  • Person
  • Looks
  • Actors

• A stone that looks satisfied with its position reflects the sense of ease the waller felt when placing it there.

  

  Dan Snow
  • Looks
  • Position
  • Felt