D. J. Taylor Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

I can take criticisms but not compliments.

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

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

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

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

The only one who's got enough of me to break my heart.

I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair.

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

It's probably foolish to expect relationships to go on forever and to say that because something only lasts 10 years, it's a failure.

I've never stopped learning.

Creamy and leggy, with long azure hair and the eyes of a silent-movie star, she moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

Too many people chase dreams that they don't understand. Too many people try to go for things that they'd like to do, but they're not realistic enough to know they don't have the talent.

In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige and grandeur that went with the power.

Peace is only a thought away.

I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.

I can hardly express in words my deep feeling and sympathy for them, knowing as I do, the many serious handicaps and obstacles that will confront them in almost every walk of life.

All sympathy not consistent with acknowledged virtue is but disguised selfishness.

Marriage is a great institution.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

In nothing do we fail more, as a Mission, than in lack of tact and politeness.

I have a woman's body and a child's emotions.

Fighting has taught me that the caterpillar takes a while to turn into a majestic butterfly.

Heart-chilling superstition! thou canst glaze even Pity's eye with her own frozen tear.

I wanted to acquire an education, work extremely hard and never deviate from my goal, to make it.

I think I was perceived in one fashion. A video is based on a song. I think you can get glimpses of people's presence within that. There's some people you enjoy watching more than others.

I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.

People throw rocks at things that shine.

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.

...wings—-vast shimmering wings, their reach so great they swept the walls on either side of the alley, each feather like the wind-tugged lick of a candle flame.

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

Lovely was the death Of Him whose life was Love! Holy with power, He on the thought-benighted Skeptic beamed Manifest Godhead.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

It's pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

I was a functional addict.

Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.

Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That's what it couldn't stand.

If you fall in love based on zero hours spent with me? That's maybe something to be aware of. That will fade fast. You can't be in love with a google search.

Iago's soliloquy - the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity - how awful it is!

Oh, for eloquence to plead the cause of China, for a pencil dipped in fire to paint the condition of this people.

Frenchmen are like gunpowder, each by itself smutty and contemptible, but mass them together and they are terrible indeed!