D. J. Taylor Quotes

Maybe you're not meant to fit in. maybe you're supposed to stand out.

Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

It takes a lot of energy to dull the soul and not hear its voice

When you're in a band that's so big when you're young, you kind of lose your identity a little bit. You just become part of the band. I just needed to get away from it.

I have also noticed that when a rider who had confidence in his ability was defeated, after doing his level best to win, always received an ovation from the gathering.

Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical.

I was so strictly brought up that the only time I could get away would be on my own pony. I could ride wherever I wanted on my godfather's estate in Kent.I wasn't brought up to be afraid of anything.

I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches.

When blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western civilization - any kind of civilization - disappears.

I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again.

Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

Manchester has everything but good looks..., the only place in England which escapes our characteristic vice of snobbery.

Sometimes bravery is as simple as following your gut.

Acting is the physical representation of a mental picture and the projection of an emotional concept.

Come, eate thy fill of this thy God's white loaf. It's food too fine for Angels, yet come, take and eate thy fill. It's Heaven's Sugar Cake.

If the Lord is coming soon, is this not a very practical motive for greater missionary effort? I know of no other motive that has been so stimulating to myself.

From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the speed of my desire.

Be grateful more than anything in your life. If you have to put a priority on something, put a priority on what your thankful for and the people in your life that you're grateful for.

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late 70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording.

I can choose to come into the world as my right brain personality, which is more compassionate, more open, more loving, and more right here, right now available.

The easiest way I have found to humble myself back into a state of peaceful grace is through the act of gratitude.

Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.

There are guys who want to shoot the last shot and others who want to pass off. I want that last shot.

Unique and different is the new generation of beautiful… You dont have to be like everybody else. In fact I don’t think you should.

Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.

Even if a relationship is breakable, it doesn’t mean it isn’t worthwhile, beautiful, and all the things that we look for.

Happiness can be reached by choice and how you look at life.

The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

A celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity.

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

A man once said, 'All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.' Mark Twain, you know. He had a fine mustache. Men of wisdom so often do.

What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.

Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.

I am a complete, mature, self-sufficient being.

Be friends first when you're dating. If it turns into something more, that's awesome, and if not you have another friend.

The doing evil to avoid an evil cannot be good.

Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. We feel a thousand miseries till we are lucky enough to feel misery.

Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.

Her skin was white as leprosy.

He who begins by loving Christianity more than Truth, will proceed by loving his sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

The happiest girls always have the prettiest nails.

I do not know how old I was when the daydreams became more than that, and I decided to write them down, but by the time I entered high school, I was confident that I would one day be a writer.

That's the thing with love: It's going to be wrong until it's right.