D. J. Taylor Quotes

'Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way.

All thoughts, all passions, all delights Whatever stirs this mortal frame All are but ministers of Love And feed His sacred flame.

Curiosity is the direct incontinence of the spirit.

This devil loves mankind because men are going to always make the choice that will send him into ascendancy. He's been winning the game for a long time.

If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.

I'm so lucky that I get to write my own music and write my own stories, so every single time I look down in the audience and I see somebody singing the words back to me, it makes it all worth it.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. For what is enthusiasm but the oblivion and swallowing-up of self in an object dearer than self?

I love all the '90s kind of grunge, and I love classic rock: That's where the spectrum lies.

I dont like it when people dont hold the door. I dont know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.

Let but faithful labourers be found, who will prove faithful to God, and there is no reason to fear that God will not prove faithful to them.

You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation.

It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents.

Broken stories can be healed. Diseased stories can be replaced by healthy ones. We are free to change the stories by which we live.

Until you understand a writer's ignorance, presume yourself ignorant of his understanding.

When I talk about losing myself, which I did, it's losing my idea of who I was and my idea of what I was supposed to be doing and the idea of what my value was to God. I lost all of that at least.

I like companies that try and break away from the norm.

I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.

My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.

If I'm going to break them, I'm going to break them both.

Art and culture are nonetheless vital, essential even, to what it means to be human, yet digital abundance has diminished our sense of their worth.

As a man without forethought scarcely deserves the name of a man, so forethought without reflection is but a metaphorical phrase for the instinct of a beast.

If it is true in anything, it is especially true of divine things, what costs little is worth little.

If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?.

You can't lead me down that rode.

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you're 16 can mirror the one you have when you're 26. Life repeats itself.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

It can be heartbreaking when you find out that your fairytale image of the world doesn't match the reality.

Fighting with him was like trying to solve a crossword and realizing there's no right answer

I've been my mom's kitchen helper since I was a little kid.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS.

When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.

I think loving someone, despite what people think, is FEARLESS. <3

In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.

...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.

A community, a family, is a group of people who share common stories. The health of any community depends directly on the health of the stories the community embraces.

Love is as hard to hide as hate.

No war is inevitable until it breaks out.

Never let stress shape your strategy. Most women think better after a brisk walk, a light meal, a massage and a nap.

The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

Everything I do is kind of a lesson, even if I am the only person who learns it.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

He who is best prepared can best serve his moment of inspiration.