Peter J Daniels Quotes

#1. Government and politics isn't like a reality TV show. It's not about voting the bad guys out of the house. You know, it's about what do we need to take our country or our state or our city forward? And people, frankly, would be well advised to really get back into understanding politics.

Campbell Newman

#2. Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear.

Neil Gaiman

#3. Electric cars are not going to take the market by storm, but it's going to be a gradual improvement.

Carlos Ghosn

#4. Poetry depends on being simultaneously opaque and transparent. It can't be only one or the other. The pebble and the pool.

Peter J. Daniels

#5. Instead of going into the bar, where dark shadows sat sampling the tasty waters of oblivion,

Stephen King

#6. What do normal people do when they're together?

David Wong

#7. Success is having consistent work habits.

Peter J. Daniels

#8. Having a long term goal provides a catalyst for motivation at every waking moment.

Peter J. Daniels

#9. Beasts kill for hunger, men for pay.

John Gay

#10. Dreaming illustrates your hidden capacities and your unawakened ability.

Peter J. Daniels

#11. When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life.

Anita Baker

#12. Light and darkness cannot occupy the same space at the same time.

Robert D. Hales

#13. Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.

Jennifer Egan

#14. I've had two unlucky injuries that are the equivalent of walking under 1,000 ladders and seeing 1,000 black cats.

Andrew Bogut

#15. That I might live alone once with my gold!
O, 'tis a sweet companion! kind and true:
A man may trust it when his father cheats him,
Brother, or friend, or wife. O wondrous pelf!
That which makes all men false, is true itself.

Ben Jonson

#16. Life is not a dress rehearsal - every day is opening night.

Peter J. Daniels

#17. Man wants the truth about Ed Watson," Daniels jeered. "Where you aim to find it? Smallwoods'll tell you their truth, Hardens'll tell you theirs. Fat-ass guard out there, he'll tell you his and I'll give you another. Which one you aim to settle for and make your peace with?

Peter Matthiessen

#18. If a despot like Adolf Hitler can think of 1000-year reign, why can't you think of a goal that is gonna last 100 years after you have gone?

Peter J. Daniels

#19. Truth to life, at the start, to be sure; yet once the process gets under way, truth to art is the greater allegiance

Julian Barnes

#20. Almost any poem has to be read twice, first for strangeness, second for clarity.

Peter J. Daniels

#21. One will never get any more than he thinks he can get. YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES. Look back and see your progress - damn the torpedo, full speed ahead!

Bruce Lee

#22. The Japanese seem to be a loyal audience.

Herb Alpert

#23. You must accept that you can change and that a pattern of principles adhered to and used repeatedly will not only direct your life, but change it permanently.

Peter J. Daniels

#24. What makes the great great? It is a sense of destiny.

Peter J. Daniels

#25. I'm doing another Churchill. I did a Churchill for HBO and that was up to 1939 and there's talk of the war years. They were going to do it this fall, but the script wasn't going to be ready.

Albert Finney

#26. As you move through life, set aside good ideas and give them to others to encourage and inspire.

Peter J. Daniels