I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
DANIEL CLOWES I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
DANIEL CLOWES That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out...
DANIEL CLOWES For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based ...
DANIEL CLOWES Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.
DANIEL CLOWES I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.
DANIEL CLOWES I don't read much of anything online.
DANIEL CLOWES It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's st...
DANIEL CLOWES I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure o...
DANIEL CLOWES I try personally not to be nostalgic.
DANIEL CLOWES But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.
DANIEL CLOWES When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.
DANIEL CLOWES I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear an...
DANIEL CLOWES I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very ...
DANIEL CLOWES I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.
DANIEL CLOWES I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
DANIEL CLOWES Nobody else feels the same way about your dog that you do.
DANIEL CLOWES Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online...
DANIEL CLOWES People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
DANIEL CLOWES I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-...
DANIEL CLOWES You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A phot...
DANIEL CLOWES I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, b...
DANIEL CLOWES When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some v...
DANIEL CLOWES Yeah, I don't necessarily like endings that contrive an artificial moment of completion.
DANIEL CLOWES He always accuses me of trying to look'cool', I was like, 'everybody tries to look cool, I just happ...
DANIEL CLOWES Try letting a Kindle protect your heart from sniper fire!
DANIEL CLOWES You were right, everybody hates my new car. Becky said it was a goth dorkmobile.
DANIEL CLOWES C'mon, let's go in my room and abuse drugs and stuff!
DANIEL CLOWES Please allow me the honour of allowing you to bestow upon me a blowjob.
DANIEL CLOWES Why aren't you girls out stealing hubcaps or shoplifting like normal children?
DANIEL CLOWES Maybe I'm just sick of putting more into this friendship than I get out of it.
DANIEL CLOWES Dear Josh, we stopped by to fuck you but you didn't answer the door. Therefore you are gay.
Si...
DANIEL CLOWES This is the Mona Lisa of bad diners.
DANIEL CLOWES You're the type of guy who always snaps at some point and becomes a mass murderer!
DANIEL CLOWES God, it drives me crazy when I know exactly what I want and I can't find it anywhere! It's like does...
DANIEL CLOWES Face it, you hate every single boy on the face of the Earth!" "That's not TRUE, I just hate all thes...
DANIEL CLOWES Everybody just lets the media do their thinking for them... that's why you'll never hear any reggae ...
DANIEL CLOWES The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smok...
DANIEL CLOWES I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, b...
DANIEL CLOWES There's a lot of great cartoonists working, but I don't see too many people coming along who are of ...
DANIEL CLOWES When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some visio...
DANIEL CLOWES Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that h...
DANIEL CLOWES You can never really trust someone who remembers every embarrassing detail of your adolescence.
DANIEL CLOWES You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photogra...
DANIEL CLOWES Comic characters have to have some kind of life breathed into them, and I'm never exactly sure how t...
DANIEL CLOWES It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very...
DANIEL CLOWES I don't think anything to do with who publishes the work matters at all, as long as they're not comp...
DANIEL CLOWES Believe it or not, the characters are all like people I went to art school with in the '70s.
DANIEL CLOWES I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure o...
DANIEL CLOWES I never feel there's anything I can't do.
DANIEL CLOWES When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
DANIEL CLOWES That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
DANIEL CLOWES I originally just wanted to be an artist.
DANIEL CLOWES For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
DANIEL CLOWES I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.
DANIEL CLOWES I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.
DANIEL CLOWES In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around th...
DANIEL CLOWES I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
DANIEL CLOWES Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be...
DANIEL BURNHAM Smart phones and social media expand our universe. We can connect with others or collect information...
DANIEL GOLEMAN A cook never knows if the dish he perfected for hours was described properly or if a guest even like...
DANIEL HUMM Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to ...
DANIEL BOONE Even if you are vegetarian, you do want to have a stuffing for Thanksgiving. The stuffing is not so ...
DANIEL HUMM Everyone comes to live in New York because they want to achieve something, and for that reason, ther...
DANIEL HUMM I think New York is truly unique in its singular combination of the quality of both the talent it at...
DANIEL HUMM I've been playing sports since I was five. For me, there's no happier moment than when I'...
DANIEL HUMM You've got to listen to your guests.
DANIEL HUMM Just as food is a craft, great service is, too. It can take years to perfect the technical aspects o...
DANIEL HUMM If you are working with high quality products, you can elevate the flavors more by cooking it at a l...
DANIEL HUMM I have fond memories from growing up in Switzerland and drinking a glass of warm milk with a spoonfu...
DANIEL HUMM The perfect ham and cheese sandwich is all about focusing on quality ingredients and about simple te...
DANIEL HUMM What people don't think about when they think about New York is this amazing farmland that grows...
DANIEL HUMM I have fallen in love with granola, in life and at work. I exercise every morning, and then I have a...
DANIEL HUMM I'm from Switzerland, so I grew up with great chocolate.
DANIEL HUMM A cookbook is a moment in time because, otherwise, you look back at the end of the day, and all the ...
DANIEL HUMM History has long had a wall up between the kitchen and the dining room. Front of house, back of hous...
DANIEL HUMM Passion for what you do is essential to success in any profession. That passion naturally keeps you ...
DANIEL HUMM My wife is from Chicago, and every time we go, I just love it. I love the restaurant scene, and peop...
DANIEL HUMM I try to run so I can eat anything I want. I feel it's a luxury to be able to splurge on somethi...
DANIEL HUMM I love New York, where I live - it's the best city in the world. Nowhere in the world do you hav...
DANIEL HUMM At my restaurant, we made a dessert called 'milk and honey.' It's milk ice cream that lo...
DANIEL HUMM We can use all the scientific tools, but it will never replace the palate or the talent of the chefs...
DANIEL HUMM No tablecloths, silver cutlery, fine porcelain, sommeliers, or deep wine lists - that's fine. Bu...
DANIEL HUMM People often think of New York as a city, a concrete jungle with soaring skyscrapers and yellow taxi...
DANIEL HUMM Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
DANIEL DREW We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.
SAMUEL DANIEL The wise are above books.
SAMUEL DANIEL And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
SAMUEL DANIEL Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
SAMUEL DANIEL By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out ...
SAMUEL DANIEL The stars that have most glory have no rest.
SAMUEL DANIEL Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
SAMUEL DANIEL I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone.
DANIEL RADCLIFFE Psychologists really aim to be scientists, white-coat stuff, with elaborate statistics, running expe...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN As I mature as a chef, I no longer aim to pack multiple techniques and ingredients into a single dis...
DANIEL HUMM Intuitive diagnosis is reliable when people have a lot of relevant feedback. But people are very oft...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes.
DANIEL KAHNEMAN I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
DANIEL BOONE We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our d...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves.
DANIEL WEBSTER Policy makers, like most people, normally feel that they already know all the psychology and all the...
DANIEL KAHNEMAN We never considered ourselves to be a good band or anything, we just thought we were playing for fun...
DANIEL JOHNS Whenever the debate moves on to hard numbers - our deficit with Europe, our surplus with the rest of...
DANIEL HANNAN But eventually it's a question of access: Getting access to fields is on top of the oil companie...
DANIEL YERGIN But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a bu...
DANIEL YERGIN I feel traveling certainly does broaden the mind. In my case certainly I feel more confident. It giv...
DANIEL TAMMET Now I understand that one of the important reasons for going to college and getting an education is ...
DANIEL KEYES I'm not an easy person to love. There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but ...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE I just moved into the world of Xbox Live. And I've discovered that everyone on the Internet is a...
DANIEL RADCLIFFE We need to re-create boundaries. When you carry a digital gadget that creates a virtual link to the ...
DANIEL GOLEMAN You're a good man," Fang said. "You're the last good man in this whole town. All the good that could...
DANIEL WALLACE Most British people are keen to remain in a European free trade zone; and most EU states are keen to...
DANIEL HANNAN The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its co...
DANIEL HANNAN Gentlemen, the character of Washington is among the most cherished contemplations of my life. It is ...
DANIEL WEBSTER While the Union lasts, we have high, exciting, gratifying prospects spread out before us, for us and...
DANIEL WEBSTER The freest government, if it could exist, would not be long acceptable, if the tendency of the laws ...
DANIEL WEBSTER The Senator says the territory of California is three times greater than the average extent of the n...
DANIEL WEBSTER When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally...
DANIEL WEBSTER He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread.
DANIEL WEBSTER If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work on brass, time will efface it. If we rear temples...
DANIEL WEBSTER Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may ta...
DANIEL WEBSTER When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless tha...
DANIEL WEBSTER They are usually denominated labor-saving machines, but it would be more just to call them labor-doi...
DANIEL WEBSTER He smote the rock of the national resources, and abundant streams of revenue gushed forth. He touche...
DANIEL WEBSTER Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
DANIEL WEBSTER Other misfortunes may be borne, or their effects overcome. If disastrous war should sweep our commer...
DANIEL WEBSTER Credit is the vital air of the system of modern commerce. It has done more, a thousand times, to enr...
DANIEL WEBSTER We have been taught to regard a representative of the people as a sentinel on the watch-tower of lib...
DANIEL WEBSTER It is, Sir, as I have said, a small College, And yet, there are those who love it.
DANIEL WEBSTER What do we want with this vast, worthless area? This region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts o...
DANIEL WEBSTER New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transpa...
DANIEL GILLIES I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the sou...
DANIEL GILLIES Kevin Smith is so great in 'Kingdom Come,' isn't he? He's kind of this very earthy p...
DANIEL GILLIES I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad foo...
DANIEL GILLIES Tell people you're a Canadian or a Kiwi when you travel and they'll adore you.
DANIEL GILLIES Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often...
DANIEL GILBERT No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make o...
DANIEL GILBERT If I wanted to know what a certain future would feel like to me, I would find someone who is already...
DANIEL GILBERT The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of ...
DANIEL GILBERT We don't believe other people's experiences can tell us all that much about our own. I think...
DANIEL GILBERT Few of us can accurately gauge how we will feel tomorrow or next week. That's why when you go to...
DANIEL GILBERT The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a l...
DANIEL GILBERT I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful ...
DANIEL GILBERT I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and...
DANIEL GILBERT Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that's the wors...
DANIEL GILBERT Your emotions are meant to fluctuate, just like your blood pressure is meant to fluctuate. It's ...
DANIEL GILBERT The mistakes we make when we try to imagine our personal futures are also lawful, regular, and syste...
DANIEL GILBERT The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is kno...
DANIEL GILBERT I was quite a successful evangelist. I've had people write to me and say, 'Gee, I'm a Ch...
DANIEL EVERETT It's wrong to try and convert tribal societies. What should the empirical evidence for religion ...
DANIEL EVERETT As I read more and I got into philosophy and met a lot of friends who weren't Christians, it bec...
DANIEL EVERETT Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some r...
DANIEL EVERETT I joined a organisation called Wycliffe Bible Translators that had the objective of translating the ...
DANIEL EVERETT Christians who believe in the Bible believe that it is their job to bring others the joy of salvatio...
DANIEL EVERETT One of the saddest things I've seen in Amazonian cultures is people who were self-sufficient and...
DANIEL EVERETT I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic tr...
DANIEL EVERETT There are very few places in the world where you have to learn a language with no language in common...
DANIEL EVERETT Language is possible due to a number of cognitive and physical characteristics that are unique to hu...
DANIEL EVERETT Almost always, when we have fights in movies, they're done in these strange rooms where nothing ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA Think about Medusa, with the snakes. If you shoot a movie in Europe, the financiers are three snakes...
DANIEL ESPINOSA If you create a movie that is only character driven, with a weak plot, then you - as a director, you...
DANIEL ESPINOSA That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of i...
DANIEL ESPINOSA Do we have the right to understand the world we live in? The right to all the information regarding ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA When I was asked to come over to the States, I thought to myself, 'What the Americans are very g...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I think it's always interesting to make sensational stories where, if these people don't mak...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I run a fast pace on my sets, man. I like the energy of the scene to be the energy on the set. I thi...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I have severe claustrophobia, and I panic if I'm more than six feet above ground.
DANIEL ESPINOSA I always loved when James Stewart did roles that were not so dialogue-based, like 'Vertigo.'
DANIEL ESPINOSA I made this Swedish movie called 'Snabba Cash,' or 'Easy Money,' and it was shown at...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I looked at early movies with Robert Redford, and I like how Robert, even though he had that automat...
DANIEL ESPINOSA For me, it's important that the script is good. Then a good director will want to make it.
DANIEL ESPINOSA Chileans have this rumor that they're great soccer players, but I stunk as a soccer player. I al...
DANIEL ESPINOSA It must have been fascinating for Bono to have Johnny Cash do a cover of his song, and hear how he t...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
DANIEL ESPINOSA If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitat...
DANIEL ESPINOSA Creating stuff is hard. But, if that terrifies you, you will just be numb, and you better just stay ...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I did two movies that were arthouse movies; they were critically successful but made no money at all...
DANIEL ESPINOSA Gangster movies are the inheritor of the Greek tragedy: it's the only genre where the audience w...
DANIEL ESPINOSA I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.
DANIEL ESPINOSA When you're 16, the top of the world is directing a gangster movie.
DANIEL ESPINOSA It's really hard to get a coffee with someone. I have to call my agent, my agent calls their age...
DANIEL ESPINOSA The fact is that when it comes to judgment as to what should be secret and what should not be secret...
DANIEL ELLSBERG I agree that there are things that should be kept secret.
DANIEL ELLSBERG It was a good 15 or 20 years before anyone at Rand would be in the same room with me. They didn'...
DANIEL ELLSBERG If there's another 9/11 or a major war in the Middle-East involving a U.S. attack on Iran, I hav...
DANIEL ELLSBERG President Johnson put destroyers in harm's way in the Tonkin Gulf not only once, but several tim...
DANIEL ELLSBERG Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanis...
DANIEL ELLSBERG Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vie...
DANIEL ELLSBERG If monarchy is corrupting - and it is - wait till you see what overt empire does to us.
DANIEL ELLSBERG Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be beli...
DANIEL ELLSBERG My feelings of revulsion and foreboding about nuclear weapons had not changed an iota since 1945, an...
DANIEL ELLSBERG We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.
DANIEL ELLSBERG There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year.
DANIEL ELLSBERG There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millio...
DANIEL ELLSBERG Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers tha...
DANIEL ELLSBERG In general, people are comfortable sharing their music. There are two exceptions, though - Lady Gaga...
DANIEL EK This is a way for artists to communicate directly to their fans. If you think of an artist like Brun...
DANIEL EK The main reason people want to pay for Spotify is really portability. People are saying, 'I want...
DANIEL EK Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that...
DANIEL EK