D. J. Taylor Quotes

I've made lots of big decisions in my life that have shocked people.

Nuclear holocaust might eliminate the Internet.

You have to lead people to get excited and be passionate and be activated by what you do.

I know for my wife and I, we always loved the idea of being young parents. It is an incredibly inspiring and challenging job being a parent, and as it turns out, being young really helps you keep up.

Everything is exciting. Who knows what will happen next?

My wife is amazing. She had to know she was getting into a heap of trouble when we met.

The rules of prudence, like the laws of the stone tables, are for the most part prohibitive. "Thou shalt not" is their characteristic formula.

If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.

Sometimes, fear is good. Sometimes it's a good thing to have a little bit of a reality check.

All powerful souls have kindred with each other

I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.

Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.

It isn't glamorous until after the film is finished, and you are at the premiere and getting your picture on the cover of magazines.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

I may not hope from outward forms to win / The passion and the life, whose fountains are within.

Tranquillity! thou better name Than all the family of Fame.

Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise.

Not the poem which we have read , but that to which we return , with the greatest pleasure, possesses the genuine power, and claims the name of essential poetry .

I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.

Look at Walter Huston in The Devil and Daniel Webster: It's an incredible performance.

There are errors which no wise man will treat with rudeness while there is a probability that they may be the refraction of some great truth still below the horizon.

But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.

A bitter and perplexed "What shall I do?" Is worse to man than worse necessity.

The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents that he understands their arguments, and sympathies with their just feelings.

Genius of the highest kind implies an unusual intensity of the modifying power.

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

It's very clearly stated in the film: You make your own choices, and what you're always fighting is ego.

May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

That passage is what I call the sublime dashed to pieces by cutting too close with the fiery four-in-hand round the corner of nonsense.

It was the era of Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson; they all had a certain look.

But, unfortunately, sometimes that affirmation creates a sense that you deserve special treatment and recognition in areas where you're not so talented.

Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic.

He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all.

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

If you wish to assured of the truth of Christianity, try it. Believe, and if thy belief be right, that insight which gradually transmutes faith into knowledge will be the reward of thy belief.

The more sparingly we make use of nonsense, the better.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Rage is essentially vulgar.

I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.

The devil is not, indeed, perfectly humorous, but that is only because he is the extreme of all humor.

Did people think I sounded black? Totally, but that was a marketing tool as well, but also this is how I grew up and these are my influences.

To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

I converse with my dog through ESP

A Falsehood is, in one sense, a dead thing; but too often it moves about, galvanized by self-will, and pushes the living out of their seats.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.

People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree to its leaves.