D. J. Taylor Quotes

In our secular society, school has become the replacement for church, and like church it requires that its teachings must be taken on faith.

Letting go is fearless. Then, moving on and being alright, that’s fearless too.

Nobody can dare me to do anything that I don't come up with on my own.

I'm always writing. It's kind of a curse: You never stop. But I need isolation to write. So the real meat of the material comes when I'm off the road.

The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.

I write about what I know, what I live, what I observe.

I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.

My favorite thing in the world is telling stories, and most of what I do is telling stories through music.

Mistakes you can learn from; sins stay with you forever.

We are defined by our dignity to rise above debasement. We are certainly better people for doing so.

Can we think more than one thought at the same time? Most of us know we can't do that. Both hemispheres are always working all of the time. But one of them is always dominant.

Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases

She has BIG feet! Oh my god, have you seen Sandra Bullocks feet? They're like the size of rulers!

It's tricky to say 'never,' but I will never have plastic surgery.

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly, or at medium speed. I either do or I don’t.

Twitter. Honestly, that's all I really have to say to explain insanity.

Genius is the power of carrying the feelings of childhood into the powers of manhood.

I wanted to be a forensic scientist when I was younger. For a long time, I was studying because I wanted to do that sort of stuff.

I get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

It's difficult to have any animosity towards someone if you recognize that on so many levels they're exactly the same as you.

I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here, and there are a lot of other white people who feel the same.

My absolute favorite meal in Nashville is sweet-potato pancakes at Pancake Pantry.

Dive on them and squash them if you must.

Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.

Maybe you won't find a place where you fit in for a very long time, but you eventually will.

I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?

If I had a thousand pounds, China should have it. If I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him?

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.

I think the fans would love anybody who played Jacob. I'm just lucky to be the one who got the chance.

Nothing can take the place of a real hunger for souls, or make up for the lack of it.

The whole faculties of man must be exerted in order to call forth noble energies; and he who is not earnestly sincere lives in but half his being, self-mutilated, self-paralyzed.

And in Life's noisiest hour, There whispers still the ceaseless Love of Thee, The heart's Self-solace and soliloquy. You mould my Hopes, you fashion me within.

I'm very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn't choose.

I just want to spend the rest of my life with someone who makes me smile, laugh, feel special, and supports me.

Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!

It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.

If we take the time, no matter how crazy and troubled we feel, we can find something to be thankful for.

The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders.

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

I must reject fluids and ethers of all kinds, magnetical, electrical, and universal, to whatever quintessential thinness they may be treble distilled, and as it were super-substantiated.

Most of the games don't let you focus too much on the cheerleaders, but I've been watching these girls.

Divine reality is not way up in the sky somewhere; it is readily available in the encounters of everyday life, which make hash of my illusions that I can control the ways God comes to me.

Little countries do not have this luxury of defending themselves. We have to do it before the fact, not after the fact

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

On Michael Jackson and child stardom: He had one of the worst childhoods ever. I think I had the second.

You have to know what you want and keep going for it.

You listen to people that love you and you listen to people that you trust. Most of all, you listen to yourself.

I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.

I'm loud and I'm vulgar, and I wear the pants in the house because somebody's got to, but I am not a monster. I'm not.