Top 100 Dan Quotes
#1. If my life had no meaning there was no reason not to end it.
Dan Wells
#2. 'Planet Earth' was such an extraordinary series and the 'Making Of' ... is fascinating: the creatures and stories behind the camera are just as fascinating as those in front. It's a bit of a dream come true to be a part of the team in some small way.
Dan Stevens
#3. I'd like to be remembered by two simple words: any two words, as long as they're simple.
Dan Mathews
#4. If something goes wrong at the plant, blame the guy who can't speak English.
Dan Castellaneta
#5. The difference between two cents and one cent is small. But the difference between one cent and zero is huge!
Dan Ariely
#6. Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
Dan Lipinski
#7. Dan gave chase with his big, blue-collar hands grasping at my shirttail.
Bobby Adair
#8. The future will be a better tomorrow.
Dan Quayle
#9. When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
Dan Rosensweig
#10. two A-4 Skyhawks from VFC-13's aggressor squadron to taxi by. He swallowed
Dan Zimberoff
#11. Don't show it and don't panic. Do like the ducks; on the surface stay calm, and below it paddle lile hell
Dan Brown
#12. But I couldn't be sure we wouldn't all die here on the steppe with snow in our mouths and holes in our hearts.
Dan Smith
#13. The circumstances of life-the events of life-the people around me in life-do not make me the way I am. They reveal the way I am.
Dan Chaon
#14. Widespread acceptance of an idea is not proof if its validity. -Robert Langdon
Dan Brown
#15. I can't tell you what's in all of God's plans, but I do know part of them. He empowers you with reason and will. Those are your strengths. That's what gives you the chance to be great in his sight. He gave you a mind and codes to live by so you could be in charge of your own actions.
Dan Groat
#16. Tell me everything you know about the horse, Bottom-san
Dan Simmons
#17. People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.
Dan Farmer
#18. She thought no one could see her. I thought she was beautiful.
Dan Wells
#19. A person gets built and stands for a few years and then nature's demolition team comes in.
Dan Groat
#20. Stop being so proud of mediocrity; show some spirit!
Dan Millman
#21. The seed of God is in us: Pear seeds grow into pear trees; Hazel seeds into hazel trees; And God seeds into God. - Meister Eckehart
Dan Millman
#22. There are lots of emotions that go with the Fourth of July.
Dan Harmon
#23. The rapid rise of the People's Republic of China as a military and economic power is challenging the status quo.
Dan Quayle
#24. I got the big BMW X5, and I didn't like it. It was just too big, and I didn't feel comfortable driving it. It was taking up too much room, and I was afraid I was going to smash into something.
Dan Hill
#25. The hardest part of growing old is remembering what it was like when you were young. Alvin in The Straight Story (movie)
Dan Carruthers
#26. The problem with opportunity cost is that opportunity cost is divided among many, many things.
Dan Ariely
#27. I've been writing a lot of country music again. I've written some bluegrass material. I'm having a good time doing that.
Dan Fogelberg
#28. There are so many people we could become, and we leave such a trail of bodies through our teens and twenties that it's hard to tell which one is us. How many versions do we abandon over the years?
Dan Chaon
#29. Can we talk of integration until there is integration of hearts and minds? Unless you have this, you only have a physical presence, and the walls between us are as high as the mountain range.
Chief Dan George
#30. To be a true poet is to become God.
I tried to explain this to my friends on Heaven's Gate. 'Piss, shit,' I said. 'Asshole motherfucker, goddamn shit goddamn. Cunt. Pee-pee cunt. Goddamn!'
They shook their heads and smiled, and walked away. Great poets are rarely understood in their own day.
Dan Simmons
#31. Miz Ellen, what do you carry in that handbag of yours that has enough wallop to knock down a full-grown man? - Dan Landry
Jane Rainwater
#32. The danger in writing about a world you don't know very well is that you can get lost in it, and sometimes I'll end up with a hundred pages I don't know what to do with.
Dan Chaon
#33. When I'm not supposed to do something, it becomes more attractive to me.
Dan Farmer
#34. Dogs have such a limited lifespan to teach us about friendship and loyalty...perhaps they know we have a short span of attention.
Dan Cohen
#35. Thus evolved some members of the Core - not altruists, but desperate survivalists who realized that the only way ultimately to win their never-ending zero-sum game was to stop the game. And to stop the game they needed to evolve into a species capable of empathy.
Dan Simmons
#36. Embrace the work opportunity you have today. It may be the stepping-stone you need on your way to success.
Dan Miller
#37. Like the rest of the house, it was beautifully appointed with shiny European wallpaper, lavender-scented soap and an oil painting over the toilet. Geoff
Dan Skinner
#38. Everything you need to know is within you. Listen. Feel. Trust the body's wisdom.
Dan Millman
#39. In dealing with the press, do yourself a favor, stick with one of three responses: (a) I know and I can tell you; (b) I know and I can't tell you; (c) I don't know.
Dan Rather
#40. The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?
Dan Quayle
#41. Evil stinks and it doesn't disappear just because you want it to. You can still smell it with your eyes closed.
Dan Groat
#42. Poetry is only secondarily about words. Primarily, it is about truth.
Dan Simmons
#43. It was a double jolt for me. The jolt of seeing my father slowly die, the jolt of knowing that I was diabetic and could meet the same fate if I didn't take care of myself.
Dan Hill
#44. Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.
Dan Hill
#45. 106 [degrees] in the valley ... I was sweating like Dan Rather checking for forged documents.
Jay Leno
#47. People always pay a lot of money for things that make them stupid.
Dan Simmons
#48. The basic idea of arbitrary coherence is this: although initial prices (such as the price of Assael's pearls) are "arbitrary," once those prices are established in our minds they will shape not only present prices but also future prices (this makes them "coherent").
Dan Ariely
#49. Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.
Dan Buettner
#50. The kind of relationship I had with my mother didn't make me gay. I had that kind of relationship with my mother because I was gay.
Dan Savage
#51. Work is not a curse of God but one of the benefits of living on this earth. Finding the work you love is not a self-serving goal; it is a required component of fulfilling your true calling.
Dan Miller
#52. I told my mom I was going to do a movie about a son who hears a story about his mom and takes her on a cross-country road trip, and I wanted to actually take the trip with my mom to see what it would be like to drive cross-country with your mom.
Dan Fogelman
#53. I get really grinchy right up until Christmas morning.
Dan Aykroyd
#54. There are more Muslims in North America then Jews Now.
Dan Rather
#55. Cathedral terminology was like stage directions - totally counterintuitive.
Dan Brown
#56. And maybe that's why the only thing that keeps me going is my belief that we are capable of being better than we are ... capable of taking action to avoid a catastrophic future.
Dan Brown
#57. There are so many people out there with less shame talking about their problems.
Dan Savage
#58. You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
Dan Aykroyd
#59. Aenea heard the music of the spheres. She resonated with the Void Which Binds, which resonates in turn to sentient life and thought, and then she used the almost illimitable energy of the Void to ... to take the first step.
Dan Simmons
#60. The absence of tumult, more than its presence, is an enemy of the soul. God meets you in your weakness, not in your strength. He comforts those who mourn, not those who live above desperation. He reveals Himself more often in darkness than in the happy moments of life.
Dan B. Allender
#61. The fabric of space/time is much like one of the elaborate Vatican tapestries, thinks Nemes, and she who begins pulling on loose threads does so at the peril of watching the whole tapestry ravel.
Dan Simmons
#62. Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it.
Dan Mangan
#63. Sol had not known he was lonely until he met Sarai.
Dan Simmons
#64. As Oscar Wilde once wrote, "Morality, like art, means drawing a line somewhere." The question is: where is the line?
Dan Ariely
#65. You can think of all the things a Congress or a legislature does, and then you kind of overshadow that with the fact that a few people are going to make those decisions.
Dan Webster
#66. I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
Dan Reynolds
#67. We are currently working on new policies to protect and create American jobs, particularly by improving education. We need more information in order to find the best solutions to this increasing concern for American families.
Dan Lipinski
#68. Of course, no lyrics are ever unintentional, but I think bands like Wolf Parade and the Arcade Fire have a tendency to touch on big themes without really following through on them or tying them in to a particular logic.
Dan Bejar
#69. Writers need to get over the fear of hitting the "publish" button.
Dan Alatorre
#70. Under the weight of my growing self-knowledge, my self-image was sinking fast.
Dan Millman
#71. When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.
Dan Totheroh
#72. Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
Dan Savage
#73. I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
Dan Brown
#74. I love Don Williams records, and old Ralph Stanley and Bill Monroe.
Dan Fogelberg
#75. The people that lend you money basically give you an answer based on the risk that they are willing to take. But just because a bank is willing to take a particular risk doesn't mean that that is the right amount for me to spend.
Dan Ariely
#76. It feels nice to be comfortable, but if we're comfortable all the time, we miss out on the chance to stretch and grow.
Dan Millman
#77. The whole scene made Dan think of American history tests, which were almost as scary as exploding museums.
Rick Riordan
#78. Prayer never changes the laws of nature.
Dan Barker
#79. Curing RM is in the realm of magical pixies and talking dogs that piss whiskey. It's impossible.
Dan Wells
#80. In dangerous times, there is no sin greater than inaction.
Dan Brown
#81. It's nice to be able to support programs like 5 Hole Threads' in our communities to keep more kids involved in sports. The Life lessons that are learned from being a teammate are so valuable. All kids deserve the chance to experience that.
Dan Ellis
#82. It sounds as if you are trapped in a cycle of thinking about yourself and how you don't belong in the world.
Dan Brown
#83. He had grown fond of the old proprietress, Mrs. Matalov, who had been a magician's assistant back in the 1930s, and who now, even at ninety-three, had the stoic dignity of a beautiful woman who was about to be cut in half.
Dan Chaon
#84. Actually, when they have celebrity look-alikes, Im always put up there with Joe Torre.
Dan Lauria
#85. With uncontrived sincerity he said, "I want to know you." That was one of the nicest things anyone had ever said to me.
Dan Harris
#86. The Gullikson twins here. An interesting pair, both from Wisconsin.
Dan Maskell
#87. My upbringing made me think that real legitimate music is written, not heard.
Dan Fogelberg
#88. Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.
Dan Quayle
#89. I was worried that, as a college teacher, if I wrote too much about intergenerational sex my students would be creeped out.
Dan Chaon
#90. Evolution brings human beings. Human beings, through a long and painful process, bring humanity.
Dan Simmons
#91. Love was as hardwired into the structure of the universe as gravity and matter.
Dan Simmons
#92. If there's a takeaway from working here, it's an understand that, as bioorganisms, we are a walking time bomb programed for cellular self-destruction. Not if, when.
Laurie Nadel
#93. I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
Dan Shechtman
#94. I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
Dan Brown
#95. Worn out by suffering, we lie on our great backs, tossing grass up to heaven - as a distraction, not a prayer. That's not humility you see on our long final journeys: it's procrastination. It hurts my heavy body to lie down. - DAN CHIASSON, The Elephant
Jodi Picoult
#96. I think,' I said, watching his face for a reaction, 'that fate wants me to become a serial killer,'
He raised an eyebrow; nothing more. I told you he was calm.
Dan Wells
#97. I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars ... I'm not bitter at all ...
Bill Bailey
#98. To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.
Dan O'Brien
#99. Human art, Mahnmut knew, simply transcended human beings.
Dan Simmons
#100. The world as we know it is ending, my friends, no matter what happens to us
Dan Simmons
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