Daylan Jacob Quotes & Sayings

Religions are manipulated in order to serve those who govern society and not the other way around. — Gore Vidal

A moment, that's all it takes to live.
A hope, that's all it takes to believe.
A dream, that's all it takes to wish.
A blink, that's all it takes to lose it all. — Someone

I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story. — Uzo Aduba

Sometimes I can't sleep 'cause I can't get a melody or a beat out my head, so I just have to wake up and, like, record it on a voice note. — ASAP Ferg

Misreading is a big part of reading, the way in which the level of attention you're paying can lead to some interesting residue. — Brian Evenson

Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out. — Donna Brazile

We're all alive, but we don't know why or what for; we're all searching for happiness; we're all leading lives which are different and yet the same. — Anne Frank

The right way to deal with healthcare reform is not to have a one-size-fits-all plan that's imposed on all the states, but recognizing the differences between different states' populations, states should be able to craft their own plans to get all their citizens insured, and to make sure that preexisting conditions are covered. — Mitt Romney

I'm not lookin' to be anybody's keeper. What I say and do is meant to protect me. If it works for somebody else, that's okay, but I don't want people depending on me to save them. — Dan Groat

Let no act be done without purpose. — Marcus Aurelius

I hate to complain ... No one is without difficulties, whether in high or low life, and every person knows best where their own shoe pinches. — Abigail Adams

hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort — F Scott Fitzgerald

I think that's the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing. — Maria Semple

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. — Nathaniel Hawthorne