Dan Baum Quotes

#1. Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.

Walter Darby Bannard

#2. Who really needs a new album from me?

Elton John

#3. It is a curious thing how poets tend to become ascetics ... Even a debauch for them is a self-flagellation. They go on the loose in cruelty against themselves, admitting that they are pandering to, and despising, the lower self.

D.H. Lawrence

#4. New Orleanians are notoriously late showing up, if they show up at all, because by and large they don't keep calendars. Calendars are tools for managing the future, and in New Orleans the future doesn't exist.

Dan Baum

#5. An armed man is a little republic unto himself

Dan Baum

#6. Perfect doesn't just mean happy. Perfect can have lots of different parts. - Niles.

Pat Conroy

#7. More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth.

Joseph Fort Newton

#8. Every few years something new breaks into the circle of my thoughts.

Mason Cooley

#9. In New Orleans, no matter how much money you had in the bank, you looked on poverty every day.

Dan Baum

#10. If I were packing for a deserted island, I would bring sunscreen, a water purifier, something to start a fire with, my sister, and something for protection.

Gracie Gold

#11. If you look at the other people around at the time - Charles Clarke, Alistair Darling, Jack Straw - they've all gone. And they're not old. What's happened is that someone who is quite old - Jeremy Corbyn - is now leader. We have to take some responsibility for that.

Alastair Campbell

#12. The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Vincent Van Gogh

#13. When we honestly take stock of our ability, we are then granted the opportunity to improve our circumstance. Accessing where you stand is the only way to stand somewhere else.

Chris Matakas

#14. The first time I saw Marcey Parker she was happily firing a submachine gun through a window.

Dan Baum

#15. We age not by holding on to youth, but by letting ourselves grow and embracing whatever youthful parts remain.

Keith Richards

#16. How many bodies were floating around, and how many more would die? Not the uptown swells with cars, second homes, and wallets full of credit cards, but those who had no car, no friend with a car, those who'd never left New Orleans and weren't about to flee just because the mayor said to go.

Dan Baum

#17. My Dad has been a feminist, way before I learnt how to spell the word.

Shahla Khan