Top 100 Jn Darby Quotes
#1. I'm probably a monster-of-the-week guy, and that comes back down to my old favorite show, which as a kid was always Scooby-Doo.
Rhys Darby
#2. I missed Breaking Bad and people just go on and on about it until you're blue in the face with envy and you've got to watch it.
Rhys Darby
#3. I've been to Loch Ness three times, I've done a fair amount of research on the Chupacabra and things like that, so I've actually done a bit of the sort of paranormal investigation that happens on this show [X-files].
Rhys Darby
#4. I like to be very consistent with workouts and getting a good amount of sleep. I've really been enjoying Pilates lately. It's actually really tough to fit in my schedule, but if I can get in a workout three times a week while we're shooting, that feels right. Any more seems to deplete my energy.
Darby Stanchfield
#5. No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms with the problem of cubism.
Walter Darby Bannard
#7. The salvation of the elect was as certain before His advent, though accomplished by it, as afterwards.
John Nelson Darby
#8. Open mind all the way. Because people have had eyewitness accounts, they've seen things, they swear they've seen things, and I tend to believe in people rather than - maybe I'm a little naive, but my optimistic outlook on life is to sort of be positive and take everyone at face value.
Rhys Darby
#10. I tried my best [on audition for X-Files], and it worked out. I got the part. So I was flabbergasted.
Rhys Darby
#11. Part of history is facts. The other part is what we find easier to believe.
Walter Darby Bannard
#12. He [Taika Watiti] worked on this screenplay for a couple of years and just getting it right and the result is there. He's made really close to a perfect film [Hunt for the Wilderpeople] ... Perfect as you can be.
Rhys Darby
#14. Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.
John Nelson Darby
#15. When I met Oprah, the first thing I thought was, 'She is the most amazing hugger ever.'
Darby Stanchfield
#17. In a game like this, the team that makes the least amount of mistakes prevails. We made a couple today. But it's all about the brotherhood. We all go down together.
Chuck Darby
#18. I do want to come across something, I do want to feel something and see something.
Rhys Darby
#19. No matter how she had suffered, Darby hadn't retreated from life after all. In fact, she'd embraced it. Quietly, carefully, but with dignity and love.
Fiona Davis
#21. It's a funny thing because it's what the people say when they come across a ghost situation is that it does freak you out, but then you do get over it - for some reason you're not scared to come across it again.
Rhys Darby
#22. When there's characters out there that don't have humor, I don't find them as believable, because we all have humor, no matter what level it is, we all use it every day, no matter what situation we're in, we'll try and have a bit of a laugh even if it goes wrong.
Rhys Darby
#23. If you're into comedy, you will know what the show is about. We have so many comedy geeks, comedy enthusiasts, fanatical people who go to comedy festivals and follow comedians, and really treat it like rock 'n' roll - which it can be, but more like the geeky rock 'n' roll.
Rhys Darby
#24. It will be in the key of delicious. - Bucky
Darby Conley
#25. When I'm grateful for all the blessings, it puts away all the stress about things not in my control. Things like long hours, aging, pollution, scandals ... it helps me create perspective by just focusing on being grateful. Take that moment twice a day with yourself.
Darby Stanchfield
#26. If art depended on content, then one painting of an apple would be as good as the next one.
Walter Darby Bannard
#27. I held apostolic succession fully, and the channels of grace to be there only.
John Nelson Darby
#28. It is the desire of our hearts, and as we believe God's will under this dispensation, that all the children of God should be gathered together as such, and, consequently, as not of the world.
John Nelson Darby
#29. I've never really been into ghosts or spirits, and I've only had a couple of those kind of experiences.
Rhys Darby
#30. Now I'm a big fan [of X-files]. I had to see what all the fuss is about, and I love it.
Rhys Darby
#31. I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.
John Nelson Darby
#34. I am very much into the paranormal.
Rhys Darby
#35. In art there is no absolute good or bad, but it is absolute that there is good and bad.
Walter Darby Bannard
#37. I was born in Kodiak, and I was raised in a place called Dutch Harbor out on the Aleutian Islands. There's a show called the 'Deadliest Catch' on the Discovery Channel. And they film it on Dutch Harbor where I grew up.
Darby Stanchfield
#38. Postmodernism lives in the academy, where words abandon reality to serve ambition, and reputations rise on hot air.
Walter Darby Bannard
#39. I know that those who esteem these little organised associations to be the churches of God, see nothing but mere meetings of men in every other gathering of God's children.
John Nelson Darby
#41. Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.
Walter Darby Bannard
#42. The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions.
Walter Darby Bannard
#43. Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
Walter Darby Bannard
#44. Postmodernism does not help us understand good art. It encourages art that can be easily understood and throws in something catchy to cover the loss of mystery.
Walter Darby Bannard
#45. I can say, Christ has been my only object; thank God, my righteousness too ... Hold fast to Christ.
John Nelson Darby
#47. To an art historian a Giotto is a 14th Century painting. To an artist it was painted yesterday. We free ourselves from the past when we see it freshly.
Walter Darby Bannard
#48. During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.
John Nelson Darby
#49. Atty's eyes rested on Darby with all the subtlety of a dog watching his food bowl being filled!
Tricia Murphy
#50. I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.
John Nelson Darby
#51. What is sublime? / the artist said. / I haven't time / to be well read. / To be sub lime / I'll place, instead, / green citrus fruit / upon my head.
Walter Darby Bannard
#52. Science is a matter of adjusting language to explain material reality. Art is a matter of adjusting material reality to create a sense of life.
Walter Darby Bannard
#54. The biggest scandal I was ever involved in was - in high school, at a basketball game, I shot and scored for the other team.
Darby Stanchfield
#56. I think when I'm cast in things, people take that as part of the package that I would like to have some sort of creative control and they know what I'm capable of, so they let me come on the day with my own ammunition.
Rhys Darby
#57. Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle.
Darby Conley
#58. I had always owned them to be the Word of God ... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me feel deeply the contrast with its actual present state; though still, as ever beloved by God.
John Nelson Darby
#59. Purplish brown? Let's agree it / is a color so bad we all flee it / it has no good use / so let's name it Puce / from the sound we make when we see it.
Walter Darby Bannard
#60. When your life burns to ash before you, it's hard to find hope in the embers of what remains.
Darby Briar
#62. I think Psycho Sam is closer to the real me in some ways which is frightening to admit, but I guess ... I mean, I'm definitely into the paranormal.
Rhys Darby
#65. Craft' gets a bad rap. Mediocre art is not caused by craft; it is caused by artists. Good art employs whatever craft works best.
Walter Darby Bannard
#66. We must turn away from work that replaces experience and pleasure with explanation.
Walter Darby Bannard
#67. In this world, you have to fight to live. In this world, there's no easy way, there's the hard way, and the harder way.
Darby Browne
#68. The more freedom artists have to do what they want to do, the more they do what other artists are doing.
Walter Darby Bannard
#70. Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.
Walter Darby Bannard
#71. Very few people ever understand art. If you are lucky, they will buy it for the wrong reasons.
Walter Darby Bannard
#72. Thor is a legend after all and if you're getting a legend back, you've got to get the Darby in.
Rhys Darby
#73. I have a 10 year old boy and a 6 year old boy and the stuff that they watch, it's always ... I mean, it could be because we're a funny family, but they love the humor and combining humor with space action, I mean, you know, there's a winner right there.
Rhys Darby
#74. I think I can relate to this guy [Psycho Sam] that ended up ... This desire to go off the grid and live on his own and didn't trust anyone or anything and I guess the thing that saved him in my head was that he had a great sense of humor.
Rhys Darby
#75. Trying to be original is futile. If you have no place to go, stay home and cook.
Walter Darby Bannard
#76. Originality is way overrated. To make, you need to take. All great artists do.
Walter Darby Bannard
#77. Art flows more easily when you are not thinking about what 'should' be in it or how it 'should' be done. The Impressionists taught us to look and see, not assume.
Walter Darby Bannard
#80. Talent is like a seed which needs fertile soil. There is no less talent now, there is less fertile soil to nourish it.
Walter Darby Bannard
#81. I get them [auditions] from time to time, and I sometimes get auditions for big dramas, and I often think, well, I'm not going to get that part. This was a big surprise - it was The X-Files.
Rhys Darby
#82. Some respected and beloved brethren insist that the forming and organising of churches is, according to God's will, the only means of finding blessing in the midst of that confusion which is acknowledged to exist.
John Nelson Darby
#83. I was in the New Zealand army for like four years, the exact period of when it was on the air, so I never saw it.
Rhys Darby
#85. Postmodernism does not facilitate better art. It rationalizes inferior art by wrapping it in words - a suit of armor with nobody inside.
Walter Darby Bannard
#86. That's one of the best things about characters like Indiana Jones. I mean, he's funny. He's done really wicked things.
Rhys Darby
#88. Over at the Olivia Pope & Associates set, we're like middle school children. Every time there's a cut in the action, we joke and dance around; there's show tunes and fart noises.
Darby Stanchfield
#89. This truth of the gathering together of God's children is in Scripture seen realised in various localities, and in each central locality the Christians resident therein composed but one body: Scripture is perfectly clear on that head.
John Nelson Darby
#91. I'm sure that the average person thought we would fold up right there. That's all everyone thinks we're about, anyway. Alexander, Alexander, Alexander. But it's about the brotherhood. Shaun's a great player, but we have a lot of weapons around here.
Chuck Darby
#92. To rest satisfied with existing evils, as if we could do nothing, is not obedience; but neither is it obedience to imitate the actions of the apostles.
John Nelson Darby
#93. When you write something new about science, other scientists may not like it but they pay attention because it is subject to proof. When you write something new about art, it is subject only to the reader's discomfort, and will probably be rejected.
Walter Darby Bannard
#94. I stopped three feet from gold, but I will never stop because men say 'no' when I ask them to buy insurance." Darby
Napoleon Hill
#95. When realistic images or patterns are seen in an abstract painting, they are often parallels brought about by processes in painting which echo processes in nature.
Walter Darby Bannard
#97. When I moved to Los Angeles, I was straight out of grad school, and I didn't have a single credit to my name. I knew one person in town - another actor whose name is John Billingsley. I just had to audition and audition and audition. I was plugging away for 15 years. So I earned my stripes!
Darby Stanchfield
#98. A clear idea about the nature of quality in art will always result in inferior art tailored to it.
Walter Darby Bannard
#99. Stale artifacts of the past' are always 'active components of the present moment' when they are experienced in the present moment.
Walter Darby Bannard
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