Top 100 Darin Quotes
#1. I started with Bobby Darin. He signed me to Capitol when I was 15. I was 14, getting ready to be 15. Then the next encounter I had was with I think Peggy Lee. I sang background with The Blossoms with Darlene Love.
Merry Clayton
#2. Not that I'm some rocker, but what I do in a show is probably far more aggressive than what Dean Martin or Bobby Darin ever did.
Michael Buble
#3. Imagine The Greatest Hits of Bobby Darin minus 'Mack the Knife.' That's what my life would be like without you.
Haruki Murakami
#4. Bobby Darin was one of the first to take black musicians on the road with his band, and there were places that didn't want him to play, and he stood up to it.
Kevin Spacey
#5. But one man never laughed. He was a giant among men. He was Bobby Darin and he was my friend.
Wayne Newton
#6. I had been on tour with people like Roy Orbison. I knew Bobby Darin, Sam Cooke. So many great performers.
Bobby Vinton
#7. Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.
Johnny Rivers
#8. Because my mother was in love with Bobby Darin, I grew up with his records playing in our house all the time.
Kevin Spacey
#9. All of our early hits, 'Danke Schoen' and 'Red Roses,' were produced by Bobby Darin.
Wayne Newton
#10. If you don't try, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere.
Bobby Darin
#11. The 1850s proved to be the decade of the most prolific patent litigation in America's history. Lincoln himself was involved, as well as his most three prolific cabinet members: Chase, Seward and Stanton.
Darin Gibby
#12. Memories are like moonbeams, we do with them what we will.
Bobby Darin
#14. I spent three and a half years writing the novel 'Chang & Eng,' about the conjoined brothers for whom the term 'Siamese twins' was contrived, and when I think of these afflicted people, my only emotion is one of profound sympathy.
Darin Strauss
#15. I delivered Chinese food on Long island, which is pretty depressing. I lived with my parents and did that for six months. I got a job a few towns over from mine so I wouldn't have to see people from my high school.
Darin Strauss
#16. Not to be too 'Tale of Two Cities' about it, but I find writing a memoir easier than writing fiction, and more difficult.
Darin Strauss
#17. Because we are now "temples" of God, we are now supposed to live differently from the rest of humanity.
Darin Bowler
#18. Judgment helps one to make the appropriate decision at the appropriate moment and diminish the influence of fate.
Darin Strauss
#20. I didn't understand the living fascination with a world of perfected dead.
Darin Bradley
#21. I'm very strict in my belief that non-fiction should be truthful, and fiction is for invented narratives.
Darin Strauss
#22. I have twin six-year-old boys. Have no mojo. The closest thing to a mojo I have is five minutes of peace.
Darin Strauss
#23. Sometimes one learns too early, as I did, what the world is capable of.
Darin Strauss
#24. My knowledge of trains - and love before first sight, love at negative-one sight - comes from Alfred Hitchcock.
Darin Strauss
#25. I've had menial jobs, and 'professional writer' isn't one of them.
Darin Strauss
#26. This marriage is no one's business but our own.
Bobby Darin
#27. When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting.
Bobby Darin
#28. When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.
Darin Strauss
#29. Sure my career means a hell of a lot, but it will never come before Sandy and my son.
Bobby Darin
#30. V. S. Pritchett was one of the most admired, fun, talked-about writers of the 20th century: he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth for his work with prose. He was born in 1900, wrote till he died in 1997, and has been tidily forgotten ever since. This is a real shame.
Darin Strauss
#32. A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
Bobby Darin
#33. The muffling blanket would fall over my thoughts.
Darin Strauss
#34. People say I was made for this
Nothin' else would I trade for this
And just think I get paid for this...
Bobby Darin
#35. If you're guilty of something, you can focus on that, but if something terrible happens, and you can't imagine how you could have changed it, that's very difficult for the mind. In some ways, it's more difficult not to be at fault because it's a subtler thing.
Darin Strauss
#36. We were most amused by destroying what we'd taken.
Darin Bradley
#37. I don't want to be able to see the audience.
Bobby Darin
#38. Love wasn't a thing you fell in, but rose to. It was what stopped you from falling.
Darin Strauss
#39. What I want to write is that I lay there until morning, with tear-stained eyes, a tear-stained pillow, a tear-stained life. What can one do with levels of gloom and guilt, fear and disbelief, of bewilderment above one's capacity to register? I slept soundly.
Darin Strauss
#40. Mr. Burns comes out and flips cigar ashes on his shoes, and makes up about 90 percent of what you hear.
Bobby Darin
#41. It's good training for a novelist to try to discern the truth about a place after only a few glimpses of it.
Darin Strauss
#43. This empty act could no more be mistaken for a mother's touch than the wind that fills out some dress on a clothesline might be confused with an actual body.
Darin Strauss
#44. The detective had a kidnapping, he had a knife and he had blood. He had an insane old man. He was going in.
Darin Gibby
#45. One of the disconcerting things about writing for publication is that you're trying to clear your little parcel of land in a field where Taste is king - and, as we all know, there's no accounting for Taste.
Darin Strauss
#47. My family comes first. Maybe that's what makes me different from other guys.
Bobby Darin
#48. Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this - that it's a job?
Darin Strauss
#49. Conceit is thinking you're great; egotism is knowing it.
Bobby Darin
#50. I'm more married to Sandy now than when we were married with the legal document. We're still married as parents.
Bobby Darin
#51. I am now a turtle. Virtually everything I own is on my back and suffice it to say I am one ton lighter and therefore 2,000 pounds happier. All houses are gone.
Bobby Darin
#52. I had these shoes made and 2 to 3 inch lifts inside and the heel was another 2 and half inches. I walked around that way, wherever I could without falling over.
Bobby Darin
#53. I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.
Bobby Darin
#54. It is the spaces we must be concerned with. With clearing them out. Because of the contexts within them. With less context reacting us, we might all be safer. More efficient. I stare at the building across the road, and I wonder about its presence. Its residential spaces. Its malice.
Darin Bradley
#55. I consider myself a Jewish writer - even if my characters frequently are not Jewish - in the same way, I guess, that I consider myself a Jewish man, even though I don't often attend shul.
Darin Strauss
#56. Even the best novels have their share of stinker lines.
Darin Strauss
#57. I've got a dream lover, so I don't have to dream alone.
Bobby Darin
#58. We weren't violent then. There is a difference between paint and not.
Darin Bradley
#59. Everybody thinks I'm at death's door, but I'm not. There's nothing seriously wrong with me, and my heart is in 100 percent working order. Anything else you may hear is a damn lie!
Bobby Darin
#60. I suppose memory has at least two faces, and capricious ones at that.
Darin Strauss
#61. Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.
Bobby Darin
#62. I'm no fan of jam bands. You can take your Gov't Mule, your Phish, your Rusted Root. But Derek Trucks is a special musician - perhaps the greatest slide guitarist who ever lived.
Darin Strauss
#63. Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I'll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.
Bobby Darin
#64. I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself.
Bobby Darin
#66. The Democratic Party of California is ready to sponsor me. All I have to do is find the right office to run for.
Bobby Darin
#67. It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.
Bobby Darin
#68. Society isn't good at dealing with people who have something concrete to feel guilty about or who are dealing with a loss.
Darin Strauss
#69. At home in bed that first night I had patchy, mundane dreams about normal things. It would be nobler and less uncomfortable to write that I tossed sleeplessly.
Darin Strauss
#71. A subplot is a distinguishing characteristic of the novel; the short story, for example, does not need subplots.
Darin Strauss
#72. Nearly everything I do is part of a master plan to make me the most important entertainer in the world.
Bobby Darin
#73. We contain more than our understanding allows us, at a given moment, to understand.
Darin Strauss
#74. Maybe the 'Million Little Pieces' of the world are so popular because no one ever writes memoirs about PTA chairwomen; what memoirists do, and often get in trouble for, is bring interesting lives to light.
Darin Strauss
#75. Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.
Bobby Darin
#77. Little Sandra Dee isn't supposed to smoke, you know. Or drink. Or breathe." - Sandra Dee, the actress
Dodd Darin
#79. Now, whether my not asking for good things to happen to me is subconsciously intended to win me brownie points with God is something I can't answer. But I do feel the need to give thanks and also not to feel hypocritical by asking for things when I have doubts that God would answer me.
Darin Strauss
#80. The starkest rejection letter might be followed by a million-dollar advance. Don't let rejection start to look the same as failure.
Darin Strauss
#81. Any game could be my last, and any at bat could be my last. I'd hate to think it ended without me giving my best effort.
Darin Erstad
#83. And he sought, with quick vanity, the reflection in a big mirror opposite him. Just as fast he turned away. He appeared to have reached that situation of health where vanity meant you didn't risk your face in the mirror.
Darin Strauss
#84. Everything begins by making your audience pay attention.
Darin Bradley
#85. A-well-a, splish, splash, I forgot about the bath, I went and put my dancing shoes on.
Bobby Darin
#86. His nervous eyes watched me above his words, apologizing for the ways the excuses weren't right even as he couldn't stop presenting them.
Darin Strauss
#87. Like all writing rules, the injunction to start with the trouble can be broken, and it should be sometimes - if there's good reason.
Darin Strauss
#88. I don't know what it is to love the way they love-they would jump off a bridge for me. I can't do that. I can only say, I owe you.
Bobby Darin
#89. Perhaps it's because a writer lives in Brooklyn that he'd want to get away from it. It can be very sustaining, this community of writers - sometimes it's the feeling of many hands giving you a boost. But all that identical ambition can be choking, too. The many hands slide up to your throat.
Darin Strauss
#90. After a life deprived of everything from romantic love to the choice of when to wake up in the morning, after 29 years without the ability to have a career or even to be alone at toilet, the Bijani sisters are not symbols but women who have had to live a shared life of constant, quotidian sacrifice.
Darin Strauss
#91. I could have a roomful of awards and it wouldn't mean beans.
Bobby Darin
#92. Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?
Bobby Darin
#93. During the season I really don't do anything else but play baseball. I've never wanted to get away from baseball for a break. Why would I want to get away from it? I love the game. I always have. There's nothing else I'd rather do.
Darin Erstad
#94. I want to make it faster than anyone has ever made it before. I'd like to be a legend by the time I'm 25.
Bobby Darin
#96. I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.
Darin Strauss
#97. We can try our human best at the crucial moment, and it might not be good neough.
Darin Strauss
#98. I suppose that, for most of us, the fascination of conjoined twins is that such people can serve as symbols.
Darin Strauss
#99. I don't think there's any danger of my ever becoming complacent about losing. I always hated to lose, regardless of what it was, even when the family was playing Yahtzee.
Darin Erstad
#100. My wife and I live in Brooklyn, N.Y., not too far from where my Long Island childhood happened.
Darin Strauss
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