Dan Wells Quotes

I wanted everything to stay the same, but you wanted things to be better, it's just...going to be a whole lot worse for awhile first. And I think I knew that, and I was scared of it." - Marcus

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• I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Pretty
  • Want
  • Down

• Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Violence
  • See
  • Skin

• Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Life
  • World
  • Best

• They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

  

  Ike Turner Ike & Tina Turner
  • Music
  • Different
  • Change

• A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • Good
  • Feel
  • Authenticity

• Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and it's free to everyone.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Today
  • Free
  • Exercise

• I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • World
  • Reading

• Logic is in the eye of the logician.

  

  Logic
  • Logic

• To have come of age during and after the global financial crisis of 2008 is to belong to a generation often unable to do what an American could once expect, and to do what was once expected: Get a job, pay off student loans, and find a place of your own.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Job
  • American
  • Age

• Playing a real-life character is a challenge and a huge responsibility.

  

  Ali Fazal
  • Life
  • Real
  • Character

• The magic doesn't come from within the director's mind, it comes from within the hearts of the actors.

  

  James Cameron
  • Mind
  • Magic

• Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Good
  • Learning

• I would absolutely, definitely never sell my wedding pictures to a magazine. I'd like it to be a special day, not a photo shoot. And once you've done that, your marriage becomes everybody else's business.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • Done
  • Business
  • Marriage

• The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.

  

  Buddha
  • World
  • Truth
  • Wise

• I think I was raised by a really good mother.

  

  Dean Winters
  • Good
  • Mother

• In the cold, all the blood rushes to your core to protect your heart, lungs, kidneys, liver, and brain. When you leave the water, the blood rushes back to your arms and legs, absorbs that freezing cold, and brings it back to the heart.

  

  Lewis Gordon Pugh
  • Heart
  • Water
  • Brain

• If you've had a marriage that ended because of a betrayal in trust on your spouse's behalf, the idea of trusting another person with your heart can seem completely ridiculous.

  

  Emily V. Gordon
  • Heart
  • Trust
  • Marriage

• To some people, the impossible is impossible. One fine day, they wake up in the morning knowing that they will never hold the moon in their hands, and with the certainty, perfect peace descends on them.

  

  Elizabeth Bibesco
  • People
  • Up
  • Peace

• I am never guided by a possible assessment of my work.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Assessment

• A desirable advertisement will be reasonable, but never dull ... original, but never self-conscious ... imaginative, but never misleading.

  

  Fairfax Cone
  • Reasonable
  • Desirable
  • Advertisement

• All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Hero
  • Moon
  • Humans

• I've done a lot of that kind of work before, anyway, and I was in good hands.

  

  Marton Csokas
  • Good
  • Work
  • Done

• I think right now television is the best that it’s ever been, and I think that it’s the worst that film has ever been.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Best
  • Film
  • Television

• I wanted everything to stay the same, but you wanted things to be better, it's just...going to be a whole lot worse for awhile first. And I think I knew that, and I was scared of it." - Marcus

  

  Dan Wells
  • Thinking
  • Firsts
  • Wanted