Danny Baker Quotes

We dwell amid pinheaded weasels who know only timid, the generic and the abacus.

Danny Baker

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• The fact that he didn't get credit for a while is more the story of social injustice. But his own spirit wasn't driven by that, and wasn't dependent upon that. He just wished he had the cash to go to medical school.

  

  Mary Stuart Masterson
  • School

• I've always been drawn to all sorts of genres and all sorts of voices.

  

  Edward Zwick

• Now majority rule is a precious, sacred thing worth dying for. But like other precious, sacred things .... it's not only worth dying for; it can make you wish you were dead. Imagine if all life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Wish
  • Dying

• I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Company
  • I Love
  • Acquaintance

• There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'

  

  Rebecca Hall
  • Write
  • Fan
  • Letters

• Step 4: Cough and gag. Step 5: Repeat Step 4 until it feels like maybe your lungs aren't inside your body anymore. Step 6: Remember that a really cute boy is beside you, so try to cough in a far more attractive manner.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Remember
  • Step
  • Manner

• Oh, and by the way, I'm gonna beat you tonight, and I'm gonna enjoy every second of it. Au revoir!

  

  Gail Kim
  • Enjoy
  • Tonight
  • Gonna

• Nicknames are baseball, names like Zeke and Pie and Kiki and Home Run and Cracker and Dizzy and Dazzy.

  

  Ernie Harwell
  • Baseball
  • Nicknames

• I think I'm close to lot of people in Bollywood, but I believe in evil eye, and I feel when I talk about friendships and relationships in public something somewhere goes wrong with it.

  

  Arjun Rampal
  • People
  • Believe
  • Evil

• There were a lot of signs being thrown at me, a lot of angels I was meeting, inspiring me to get back into show business.

  

  Anna Chlumsky
  • Business

• When you do something that works you have a happiness, but I don't know if it's a feeling of power. Power is a frightening thing and that's not what I'm interested in. I want to do certain things and make them right in my mind and that's it.

  

  David Lynch The Platters
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Feeling

• Yeah, she was hot, all right, but I think she had the hots for you - kept saying how she saw you over at the Waterhouse last year and you were all, like, wow, amazing. It was like a menage a trois, only you weren't there, thank God.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • God
  • She
  • Amazing

• What an exciting age it is we live in With all this talk about the hope of youth And nothing made of youth.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Age

• Regard ye the world as a man's body, which is afflicted with diverse ailments, and the recovery of which dependeth upon the harmonizing of all its component elements.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • World
  • Men
  • Recovery

• The street finds its own uses for things.

  

  William Gibson
  • Use
  • Streets
  • Cyberpunk

• Movies in general are more generic. If something sells just make more. That's Hollywood.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Hollywood
  • Sells
  • Generic

• I had a really generic upbringing, I think, when it comes to viewing movies as a kid. I didn't really know what was out there or what was being tried. I was, like, 'E.T.' and 'Indiana Jones.' Those were the only things I knew existed.

  

  Shane Carruth
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Upbringing

• There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.

  

  Charles Baxter
  • Character
  • Action
  • Mistake

• We dwell amid pinheaded weasels who know only timid, the generic and the abacus.

  

  Danny Baker
  • Generic
  • Weasels
  • Abacus