Daniel Wallace Quotes

A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.

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• Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.

  

  Samuel Lover
  • Eye
  • Smile
  • Her

• I listen to 'deep dish house'.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • House
  • Deep
  • Listen

• In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Envy
  • Lived
  • Hotel

• People always say that Randy Moss can't stick to the rules. Even my own rules.

  

  Randy Moss
  • People
  • Always
  • Rules

• I made nothing happen very slowly.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Nothing
  • Very
  • Happen

• A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Alone
  • Environment

• If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Women
  • Change
  • Rules

• I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Television
  • More
  • Someone

• The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • World
  • Career
  • Flower

• In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Time
  • Theatre
  • Meal

• Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Politics
  • Modern
  • Fairness

• I think that Pebble Beach is my favorite golf course to go to. I think Augusta is my favorite place to go play golf.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Think
  • Golf
  • Beach

• Many people in the West do not realise how oppressive some Muslim states are - both for men and for women. This is a cultural issue, not an Islamic one.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Some actors learn the habit of promoting themselves as a brand - by dressing in a certain way, by going out with a certain person - it gives them what they obviously want, which is to keep a level of fame. I'm not putting it down.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Learn
  • Habit
  • Fame

• I think there are two ways to depict a family. One is what it's really like, and one is what the audience would like it to be. Between you and me, I think the second one is what I would prefer.

  

  Aaron Spelling
  • Family
  • Think
  • Me

• I pretty much will do anything for a laugh.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Pretty
  • Laugh
  • Will

• For 'Filth,' we had about 12 producers on the thing. The opening credits go on for months. Most of them are actually financers rather than producers. And the only way that we could raise the budget without interference from a studio was to have a lot of different financers on board.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Different
  • Way
  • Budget

• Just having the internet is a weird and dangerous thing because people become accustomed to knowing things when they want to know them and not having to work for it. I definitely see the value in not knowing everything and having mystery in life and mystery in people.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Success gives you a platform for further success - suddenly everybody wants to work with you, and your opportunities and possibilities open up. But at the same time, success is also immensely challenging - it ultimately often creates pride, stubbornness, and sloppiness that beget failure, taking down people and organizations.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• A testimony of the truth of the gospel does not come the same way to all people. Some receive it in a unique, life-changing experience. Others gain a testimony slowly, almost imperceptibly until, one day, they simply know.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • People
  • Life
  • Experience

• It's not surprising that truly humanitarian manifestos originate frequently in minority circles or with people whose consciences are troubled by the problems of minorities.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Circles
  • Minorities

• When you see in places like Africa and parts of Asia abject poverty, hungry children and malnutrition around you, and you look at yourself as being people who have well being and comforts, I think it takes a very insensitive, tough person not to feel they need to do something.

  

  Ratan Tata
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• So it's like starting over again, but I look forward to the challenge.

  

  Lee Majors
  • Challenge

• A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.

  

  Daniel Wallace
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