D. J. Taylor Quotes

I want you to understand something: I am loving father who would do anything for his kids, whether they are mine or belonging to others in my family.

Slipknot is the darkness; Stone Sour is the light. Slipknot is chaos; Stone Sour is structure.

I think of how and where all the horrible people I've come across in my life ended up, and I smile.

It is always the nights you cannot remember that eventually become the stories you don’t forget.

Two things I'm trying to work on are openness and flexibility.

I find comedy to be one of the highest of the art forms.

Each great athlete must some day bow to that perennial old champion, Father Time, even as I, for Time eventually wins.

Modesty should be typical of the success of a champion.

The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar taste and aspirations and like music as much as you do.

The perfect Sunday morning is the family at home, staying in pajamas for half the day and eating a late breakfast.

If you take the creation of music and the creation of your own life values as your overall goal, then living becomes a musical process.

To feel is perhaps the most terrifying thing in this society.

I’m not a poet—I’m a drifter in the arts.

I don't really know what the dream role would be. That's a hard question to answer. You never really know, until you're immersed into something, how passionate you feel for it and how it unravels.

The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.

In a world where faith is often construed as a way of thinking, bodily practices remind the willing that faith is a way of life

I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.

Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.

I can take criticisms but not compliments.

When the whole and the parts are seen at once, as mutually producing and explaining each other, as unity in multeity, there results shapeliness.

And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

When I say I trust Jesus, that is what I mean: I trust that the way of life leads through perishability, not around it.

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

Pedantry consists in the use of words unsuitable to the time, place, and company.

Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.

Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

And though thou notest from thy safe recess old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air love them for what they are; nor love them less, because to thee they are not what they were.

Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, that itself will need reforming.

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

'He is very ugly,' said his mother.

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old!

Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yourself.

There's no place like home. And there's no toilet like your own.

The drought was the very worst when the flowers that we'd grown together died of thirst.

No one can tell me that I'm doing wrong.

Unless you intend your wife to be a true missionary, not merely a wife, home-maker, and friend, do not join us.

Consider six or eight hours a day sacred to the Lord and His work, and let nothing hinder your giving this time (to language study and practice) till you can preach fluently and intelligibly.

The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.

I like stuff that sounds big and full and makes your head trip and your body react.

I don't want to become known as just a body.

The fastidious taste will find offence in the occasional vulgarisms, or what we now call slang, which not a few of our writers seem to have affected.

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

We wrote a song, while sitting on a trampoline & we loved it so much that we ended up recording it as a duet

There are no meaningless experiences.

See the inevitable changes not as threats but as opportunities that can deepen our understanding and bring us wisdom and growth.

Women are holding up the world. We're taking care our children and, very often, our parents and sometimes our grandparents.

Laughter is equally the expression of extreme anguish and horror as of joy: as there are tears of sorrow and tears of joy, so is there a laugh of terror and a laugh of merriment.