D. J. Taylor Quotes

Hearing a crowd scream is the coolest sound in the world. It can motivate me to do anything.

, and they could name a handful.

I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.

I find it really disappointing and cheap when someone's copied the whole drum sound from a record.

I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.

I haven't got any friends from where I grew up, but that's not to do with fame.

We have found that morals are not, like bacon, to be cured by hanging; nor, like wine, to be improved by sea voyages; nor, like honey, to be preserved in cells.

Life is more important than 'what film I do next.

Don't you ever grow up, it could stay this simple.

My level of awkward makes everyone else feel normal

Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.

I feel like if you let someone else create your vision, then it's not true to your band. No one can ever do as good as you want, or as good as you can yourself.

I have too many ideas for a lifetime.

I made a nuclear reactor when I was 14

History is the great propagator of doubt.

I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.

A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.

I am so weak that I can hardly write, I cannot read my Bible, I cannot even pray, I can only lie still in God's arms like a little child, and trust.

In my opinion we learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour. We study it, as we listen to music or read poetry, for pleasure, not for instruction.

I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?

Certain things in life are more important than the usual crap that everyone strives for.

I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.

Faith Hill is a big role model.

You can walk away and say "We don't need this." but something in your eyes says "We can beat this.

Nick and Simon had come to a natural end of their working relationship with Warren, which obviously opened the door for a reunion of the original five.

I wouldn't recommend young kids see 'Speedway Junkie.' It's definitely an age-appropriate movie - dark and realistic and edgy. If young kids want to see me, go see the Christmas movie.

I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

Shouldn't we also ask ourselves what the consequences are of scrambling to provide the "most" of everything to our children in a world of fast dwindling resources?

I am always in quest of being open to what the universe will bring me.

And just so you know, the invaders are always the bad guys. Always.

The people I respect the least are the ones that take themselves way too seriously.

If only it were that easy to let go of hate. Just relax your face.

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

I know I am--that simplest bliss The millions of my brothers miss. I know the fortune to be born, Even to the meanest wretch they scorn.

When I am talking to people who I feel don't like me or are mean, I get really shy, and I kind of curl up personality wise.

History is the key to citizenship.

I hate to try to be that person in my own skin, in my own way, in my own head, not through exercises or anything else, just by, I guess, belief, concentration.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world.

I, along with the critics, have never taken myself very seriously.

I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.

I'm flying to China and Japan - if you think Beckham is a big name, you should see me there.

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me.

There's no weakness in forgiveness.

I know I can't do everything myself. So I know I specialize in my melodies and I do some of my demo work. I pass it on to my producers who are much better at the production level

... and holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a spot on the periodic table. It would be Ch, which isn't even taken.

We each have a finite number of heartbeats, a finite amount of time. But we have enough heartbeats and enough time to do what is important.

I don't really think about dance except just before rehearsals start. I put it off. I don't live my life thinking about dance

I will love Michael Jackson forever.

A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in the back of his head.