Quotes - Daniel Burton (daniel_b) (Salt Lake City, UT) Showing 1-30 of 38

#1

“I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of. ”
― Joss Whedon

tags: writing

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#2

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation

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#3

“Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong.”
― Marianne Williamson

tags: happiness

1123 likes

#4

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

tags: freedom, ignorance, inspirational, war

7180 likes

#5

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

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#6

“Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.”
― E.L. Doctorow

tags: writing

4686 likes

#7

“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

101566 likes

#8

“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.”
― Mark Twain

tags: clothing

3693 likes

#9

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135483 likes

#10

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

151321 likes

#11

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

tags: aliteracy, attributed-no-source, literacy

40996 likes

#12

“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

tags: wisdom

45297 likes

#13

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: inspirational, talent

8184 likes

#14

“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
― Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious, simile

35270 likes

#15

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

32151 likes

#16

“If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: books

873 likes

#17

“There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.”
― Steven Erikson, Toll the Hounds

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#18

“The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or ethnic background, is that, deep down inside, we all believe that we are above-average drivers.”
― Dave Barry, Dave Barry Turns 50

tags: driving, human-beings, united

979 likes

#19

“Never ruin an apology with an excuse.”
― Benjamin Franklin

tags: advice, apology

1555 likes

#20

“Yes, of course duct tape works in a near-vacuum. Duct tape works anywhere. Duct tape is magic and should be worshiped.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

2189 likes

#21

“As with most of life's problems, this one can be solved by a box of pure radiation.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

tags: humor

566 likes

#22

“I need to ask myself, 'What would an Apollo astronaut do?' He'd drink three whiskey sours, drive his Corvette to the launchpad, then fly to the moon in a command module smaller than my Rover. Man those guys were cool.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

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#23

“because after what I’ve been through, stuff on Mars should be named after me.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

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#24

“I guess you could call it a "failure", but I prefer the term "learning experience".”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

1023 likes

#25

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
― Rudyard Kipling

tags: words

5547 likes

#26

“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

tags: intelligence

407 likes

#27

“A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.”
― Peter De Vries

tags: inspirational-love, motherhood, thankless-tasks

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#28

“What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?”
― George Eliot

tags: inspirational

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#29

“Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.”
― George Bernard Shaw

tags: doing, greatness, needs

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#30

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
― Jeanette Winterson

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