Sipas Dan Quotes

I'm certainly very influenced by what you would call 'contemporary headline horror,' stuff that is true crime or for one reason or another catches our attention in the media, those strange cases that we end up obsessing about. I'm always influenced by weird anecdotes and news. ~ Dan Chaon

My stuff was more of a folk coffeehouse thing, with more acoustic guitar, just me doing a single, and then adding on instruments and voices, with emphasis on lyrics and singing and light kind of acoustic jazz. ~ Dan Hicks

It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing. ~ Dan Brown

Dan was doing his best Ian Kabra impersonation, looking around the store as though inspecting it for cockroaches. Amy tried to turn her snort of laughter into a cough.
"Espresso?" The saleswoman materialized seemingly out of nowhere. Amy realized that the full-length mirror on the wall was actually a door.
If she were Amy Cahill, she would blush and shake her head no, just because she didn't want to cause any bother. She imagined what Natalie Kabra would do.
"Tea. Darjeeling," she said in a curt tone.
"Oh, not Darjeeling, sis," Dan said. "That's just so middle class."
"Lapsang souchong?" the saleswoman asked.
"I just adored his last collection," Dan said.
The woman's tight smile dimmed. "That's a tea. ~ Jude Watson

Once you've wrestled, everything in life is easy. ~ Dan Gable

That's the problem today. It ain't the kids' faults. It's the parents who don't trust 'em enough to teach 'em to fend for their own. Now I ain't never been the best shooter, never raised me a prize steer, and there were a hundred guys around here who could fix a roof faster than I could change a light bulb. But the point is I learned how to do lots of different things that parents don't teach kids anymore." "My ~ Dan Padavona

Now is the only thing that exists. ~ Dan Fogelberg

Part of most major religions is a clause stating that other religions are wrong. ~ Dan Zarrella

I am just a guy, doing my best to be the best person I can be.
And, every once in a while, I fuck up the moment I'm in.
Please. Get over it. Get over yourselves. Get over this weird need to be morally superior to me and to the other people in this world.
And let me be imperfect. I assure you, my imperfections drive me to improve.
Let me love myself. I assure you, loving myself despite my faults will only make me a better person.
Let me be my own judge. I assure you, I'll be more fair and just than you ever will.
Let me be the owner of my own intentions. I assure you, there isn't another soul on earth who knows what my real intentions are but me.
Love and acceptance despite ongoing and glaring imperfection is all I've ever tried to attain with this blog. For me. For you. For everyone. And I'll never stop. ~ Dan Pearce

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state. ~ Dan Quayle

Are you gonna follow your soul? Or just the style of the day? ~ Dan Bern

Hey...kid," he (Adam) said, "can...I...come....in?"
You never had to ask before," she (Phoebe) sad, holding the screen open for him.
-Kiss of Life page 257
We need...to be...invited," he said. ~ Dan Waters

Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes. ~ Dan Futterman

I worked in the story department for years on 'Cars' and 'Toy Story 3.' ~ Dan Scanlon

I believe that Obamacare is bad for America. ~ Dan Webster

A formal invitation had just been delivered. Someone was summoning Langdon to unlock a mystical portal that would unveil a world of ancient mysteries and hidden knowledge. ~ Dan Brown

The trick to taking the paper off the crayons ... is to just do it. There is no trick. ~ Dan Bergstein

Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true. ~ Dan Brown

Prescott Bush was himself a president of the U. S. Golf Association at one time - 1935 - before he became a U.S. senator from the state of Connecticut. ~ Dan Jenkins

I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed. ~ Dan Futterman

God is found in the collection of Many ... rather than in the One. ~ Dan Brown

I love the subtlety and tonal range of the acoustic guitar. ~ Dan Fogelberg

And so I awoke to reality, free of any meaning or any search. What could there possibly be to search for? All of Soc's words had come alive with my death. This was the paradox of it all, the humor of it all, and the great change. All searches, all achievements, all goals, were equally enjoyable, and equally unnecessary. ~ Dan Millman

All American politicians are bought and paid for by American lobbyists. We no longer have representative government here. We breed monsters like Kissinger and Nixon and Ronnie Reagan. Our senate and congress are run by pay-offs and special interest money. And the fun part is that most Americans are asleep about it. Give 'em a new SUV and a good J-Lo or Tom Cruise kung-fu flick and a few jolly abortion clinic bombing news clips on the six o'clock news and everybody seems to stay content. Wasn't it Churchill that said any society gets exactly the government it deserves? ~ Dan Fante

How many people haven't dies because I killed the Withered that would have killed them? How many people have died because I kicked the hornet's nest and woke the hounds of hell? ~ Dan Wells

If you didn't fall down, you would never have learned how to pick yourself up. ~ Laurie Nadel

We're constantly dealing with old problems under the circumstance of new variables, so just things like greed and fear and anger and inequality are issues that humanity has constantly dealt with. The parameters and the variables change but these are old things. And discussing those things is slightly more timeless rather than focusing on one tiny thing. ~ Dan Mangan

Everyone loves a conspiracy. ~ Dan Brown

I know the fucking Bible, and there ain't no fucking Book of Leviathan. ~ Dan Simmons

Electric light is just another instrument. I have no desire to contrive fantasies mediumistically or sociologically over it or beyond it. ~ Dan Flavin

Maybe we're all a little broken. Maybe we're all a little fragile. Maybe that's why we need each other so much. ~ Dan Gemeinhart

Hey, we've got this guy, Dan! He's ours!" Dan Tomsic stared at her with the disdain he reserved for shitbirds, defense attorneys, and card-carrying members of the ACLU. He said, "It's easier to cut off your own goddamned leg than convict a rich man in this state, detective. Haven't you been around long enough to know that? ~ Robert Crais

I was blessed with a gift. It's a gift and a curse. It never ends. ~ Dan Fogelberg

I've been on lots of film sets. I've produced films and written films and been around, so it wasn't my first rodeo in terms of that stuff. Nothing particularly surprised me, I have to say. I came in and I enjoyed the first day and I enjoyed the last day. ~ Dan Mazer

At this gathering [Council of Niceau in 324 AD] many aspects of Christianity were debated and voted upon ― the date of Easter, the role of the bishops, the administration of sacraments, and, of course, the divinity of Jesus... until that moment in history, Jesus was viewed by His followers as a mortal prophet... a great and powerful man, but a man nonetheless. A mortal. ~ Dan Brown

My body is but a vessel for my most potent treasure ... my mind. ~ Dan Brown

In the book (Savvy Stories) you see some very real, very personal moments. The first week of Savvy's life was the longest week of ours. We spent five days in the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) worrying that our newborn daughter might die. It was touch and go for a while, and it was extremely difficult to write about. Chapter two gets a lot of people crying. But because we put that honesty out there, readers said "Okay, I can trust this guy." Then they were better able to laugh with us, too. ~ Dan Alatorre

I'm not an environmentalist, or a doctor, or a nutritionist. ~ Dan Barber

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way. ~ Dan Fogelberg