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

Dan Wells

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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
  • Bored

• 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

• I'd like to date another millionaire. I've never done that.

  

  Patti Stanger
  • Done

• 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

• I doubt I'd ever do television to the extent that, say, Gordon Ramsay has.

  

  David Chang
  • Doubt

• 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 make the tea on a Daniel Day-Lewis set just to observe how he crafts roles like he did in 'My Left Foot.' That was the equivalent of seeing Haley's Comet for me. I just couldn't understand how that was possible.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • Tea

• 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 find significance in all kinds of small details when I run; I'm hyper aware of my surroundings, the sensations in my body, and the thoughts running through my mind. Everything is clearer, heightened.

  

  Kristin Armstrong
  • Mind
  • Small
  • Running

• The real lover of cats is one who demands a clearer adjustment to the universe than ordinary household platitudes provide; one who refuses to swallow the sentimental notion that all good people love dogs, children, and horses while all bad people dislike and are disliked by such.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Universe
  • Demands
  • Notion

• There's only one drummer. We all travel to his beat. Well, I couldn't sing his song. Because for me, it wasn't a truthful statement. Well, Linda sang it, and it was a monster for her.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Song
  • Travel
  • Monster

• Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking, however, can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Bad

• I'm honored and I think the relationship with Ralph Lauren brand has been so long because it goes beyond the face or the guy. I don't feel that I'm a model at all, because I'm not. I'm a professional polo player that endorses a clothing company.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Guy

• I think I learned the most from Eminem because I spent the most time with him in the studio. Going to L.A. with Dre was a learning experience, just seeing how the dude works and being up-close and personal with a dude whose music I appreciated growing up.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• 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