Daniel Wallace Quotes

When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.

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• An artist is born like a priest is born. If they are born an artist, I would tell them art is not a game: it is something very serious which completely requires everything you have to give.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Art
  • Game
  • Artist

• Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Food
  • Sky
  • Blue

• On a given day, you can have market fluctuations where prices fluctuate far more than the underlying economic value of the unit.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Day
  • Value
  • Economic

• That part, that internal dialogue that has a lot of ups and downs and darks and lights and stuff - that, I think, is where music comes from. I think the face that you put on when you're talking to people and making small talk, I don't think that's where music comes from.

  

  Cam
  • People
  • Music
  • Small

• He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing.

  

  A. E. Hotchner
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writing

• I cannot believe such monstrous energy of grief can lead to nothing!

  

  John Gardner
  • Believe
  • Energy
  • Grief

• Do things sound better in your head before you say them, or do you even run them through there first?

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Better
  • Sound
  • Say

• One of the great things about having been on Lost is people coming up and feeling so enthusiastic about the show and saying, "Oh it provided us so much entertainment," or "It inspired conversations."

  

  William Mapother
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Inspired

• To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Born
  • Hours
  • Merry

• Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Knows
  • Miserable
  • Grandeur

• What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

  

  Bono U2
  • Age
  • Record
  • Dreaming

• Admirers can be a tremendous force for conservatism.

  

  Brian Eno Roxy Music
  • Conservatism
  • Admires

• I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Culture
  • Feels
  • Beats

• And in reverse, many older partners want a younger partner that they can teach and mold.

  

  April Masini
  • Older
  • Younger
  • Partners

• Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Coffee
  • Remembered
  • Ink

• She remembered that once, when she was a little girl, she had seen a pretty young woman with golden hair down to her knees in a long flowered dress, and had said to her, without thinking, "Are you a princess?" The girl had laughed very kindly at her and asked her what her name was. Blanche remembered going away from her, led by her mother's hand, thinking to herself that the girl really was a princess, but in disguise. And she had resolved that someday, she would dress as though she were a princess in disguise.

  

  Regina Doman
  • Mother
  • Girl
  • Woman

• When a man's stories are remembered, then he is immortal.

  

  Daniel Wallace
  • Remembered
  • Immortal