Daniel Beaty Quotes
Yes, we are our fathers' sons and daughters, but we are not their choices. For despite their absences we are still here. Still alive, still breathing, with the power to change this world, one little boy and girl at a time.
Quotes to Explore
-
Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
-
Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
-
It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
-
I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
-
To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.
-
When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
-
Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
-
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
-
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
-
If you can dream it, you can do it.
-
HeyHey is my favourite app. It's like Instagram but for sound recordings, with little soundbites from people's days. We spend far too much time looking down at our phones, so it's nice to have your head up while you listen to what other people have uploaded.
-
A lot of times with novels, you can get a really deep, engaging story, but there's not a lot happening, frankly. Those books tend to be super-literary and dense, and they require a lot of commitment, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, but if you want fast-moving action and gore and plot and excitement, you can get shorted on that.
-
I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape.
-
Quel che l'huom vede Amor gli fa invisibileE l'invisibil fa vedere Amore.
-
It doesn't matter if you stick the name 'bluegrass' on it. I think people call things bluegrass that I wouldn't necessarily call bluegrass, but what they're calling country music today I'm not sure that I would call country music. But I love music and I try to encourage people.
-
I like that because the fans want to see onstage what they know so well from the big screen.
-
It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.
-
I started writing songs at 17.
-
I spend about eight months researching and outlining my book.
-
I'm very hard on myself because I know how good my body can look. Dorie has taught me to use less weight and more repetition so I don't become too muscular.
-
In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.
-
It was never part of how I imagined my music, and I watched in awe at how this ukulele troubadour image suddenly devoured the Jens Lekman I had planned so carefully.
-
I'm in favour of a sensible development of response units and their deployment in any circumstance where there may be a risk to the officers themselves or the neighbourhood they're in. I'm not in favour of a blanket arming of the police.
-
Yes, we are our fathers' sons and daughters, but we are not their choices. For despite their absences we are still here. Still alive, still breathing, with the power to change this world, one little boy and girl at a time.
