D. J. Taylor Quotes

being open isn't the same as being weak.

I don't compete with other people in the industry, I compete with myself.

I can't help but note that God is being useful to a lot of people trying to do harm to one another.

so i sneak out to the garden to see you, we keep quiet 'cause we're dead if they knew, so close your eyes, escape this town for a little while.

It's one of the craziest feelings to be on stage and know that you were sitting on your bedroom floor when that song came to be and now there's an arena full of people singing it.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

We shouldn't blame the Panama programme for the World Cup bid failing

I loved watching Ken Griffey Jr play for the Mariners and when he was trade to the Reds I was especially excited to get the opportunity to watch him play in person.

Love will find you when you least expect it.

I think songwriting is the ultimate form of being able to make anything that happens in your life productive.

He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below

When you are a strong woman, you will attract trouble. When a man feels threatened, there is always trouble.

I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section.

I think I ended up being the scarlet woman partly because of my rather puritannical upbringing and beliefs. I always chose to think I was in love and that love was synonymous with marriage.

We do not choose between a life of difficulty and a life of ease. We simply choose for what purpose we will work, sometimes suffer, and hopefully endure.

And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate

The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action.

Few things are as encouraging as the realization that things can be different and that we have a role in making them so.

The Victorians pioneered numbers of commercial rackets about which their descendants complain (the manufacturers of Bovril, it appears, were virtually official sponsors of the Boer War).

I'm a Gibson guy. I play anything from Hummingbirds to J200s.

I think you're always gonna have half the generation that's lazy. But I think it makes the other half work that much harder.

I don't love acting; I love chocolate.

I've never felt like there's just one way to be beautiful. Tall or short, straight hair or curly, it doesn't matter.

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

I do enjoy life, I really do. Especially if I wake up the next day.

When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a lot of songs about boys. And I'm very happy to do that.

You should vote for Neoprene Byzantine in the Hot Hundred, they're really sweet guys and that Moscow song is just wow! Hurry guys voting closes really soon mwah!

The SECRET to Love is in OPENING up your Heart

I've never thought of my jewelry as trophies. I'm here to take care of it and to love it, for we are only temporary custodians of beauty.

Sometimes I think we know too much about our idols and that spoils the dream.

I have so many playlists full of Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown.

I haven't read any of the autobiographies about me.

Jazz is America's classical music.

The thing that is making jazz healthy today is that people are coming out of other backgrounds - from rock, folk, from ethnic music. It's changing the music, and for the better.

The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.

Mock jewelry on a woman is tangible vulgarity.

The stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.

The clouds are scudding across the moon, A misty light is on the sea; The wind in the shrouds has a wintry tune, And the foam is flying free.

The maxims tell you to aim at perfection, which is well; but it's unattainable, all the same.

Keep pace with the times. . . . Find new and surprising ways to teach girls how to develop every gift and grace of true womanhood.

Love's humility is love's true pride.

Fame is what you have taken, / Character's what you give; / When to this truth you waken, / Then you begin to live.

I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.

Maggie the cat is alive. I'm alive.

But still I dream that somewhere there must be The spirit of a child that waits for me.

To Truth's house there is a single door, which is experience.

It's amazing the gymnastics you can do when you don't want to do something. How you can force yourself against all the forces of nature. I threw myself backward.

[On Antony's death] Strange, there has never been... such a silence.