D. J. Taylor Quotes

...good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone.

And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadows.

I was in chemical jail.

Music reflects on who you are as a person.

Life is tough, man. No one is spared from obstacles and trials, but there is such a beautiful plan for each of us. Just gotta let it happen.

I never took the fame too seriously. It was a great period in my life, but it doesn't define me.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?

One of the things people don't really recognise about the similarities between country and hip-hop is that they're celebrations of pride in a lifestyle.

Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

My parents raised me to never feel like I was entitled to success.That you have to work for it. You have to work so hard for it. And sometimes then you don't even get where you need to go.

It's tough being out there doing what I'm doing in what they call a man's world.

Up on that stage, my personality changes. I put everything behind me when I perform. My problems dont belong to my fans. I dont put a burden on my audience. I give them 100 percent of my energy.

The primary notion i hold to be the Living Power.

Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.

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

Tel Aviv appeals to me.

I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.

I believe in mind over matter and doing anything you set your mind on.

You better lose yourself in the music

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls

Her courage was a guise. She wondered if courage always was, or if there were those who truly felt no fear.

You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.

I prefer rugby to soccer. I enjoy the violence in rugby, except when they start biting each other's ears off.

I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our particular species.

I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation

I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around

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.

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

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.

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

I've always admitted that I'm ruled by my passions.

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.

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.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions.

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

Earth, with her thousand voices, praises God.

...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.

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.

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

Pity is best taught by fellowship in woe.

People throw rocks at things that shine.

Band-Aids don't fix bullet holes. You say sorry just for show. You live like that, you live with ghosts.