Danny Wallace quote: "A man came up to me at a party and asked if I wanted to be in his video game. I of course said yes. And then it turned out it was 'Assassin's Creed', so that was great. They let me ad lib a lot and mess about and be very snarky indeed, and I'm thrilled by the success of all their hard work."

I'm a long-time fan of Rob Long, and his books are hugely re-readable, detailing the ins and out...
DANNY WALLACE

Probably some of the best things that have ever happened to you in life, happened because you said y...
DANNY WALLACE

...maybe sometimes it's riskier not to take a risk. Sometimes all you're guaranteeing is that things...
DANNY WALLACE

Sometimes the little opportunities that fly at us each day can have the biggest impact.
DANNY WALLACE

And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at ...
DANNY WALLACE

I sat down on the sofa, surrounded by years of coffee rings and sandwich stains. If the police ever ...
DANNY WALLACE

Essays just aren't my thing: no matter how hard I tried, it seemed I was always a bit average.
DANNY WALLACE

I think we all have those moments at one point or other in our lives... when we see someone and imme...
DANNY WALLACE

I try to find where the fun is and go there and then get asked if I want to have more fun. That'...
DANNY WALLACE

I think if you've got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example...
DANNY WALLACE

I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Sco...
WILLIAM WALLACE

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird...
WALLACE STEVENS

After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
WALLACE STEVENS

Reality is not what it is. It consists of the many realities which it can be made into.
WALLACE STEVENS

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our d...
WALLACE STEVENS

The imagination is man's power over nature.
WALLACE STEVENS

Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade thro...
WALLACE STEVENS

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to l...
WALLACE STEVENS

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
WALLACE STEVENS

Our bloom is gone. We are the fruit thereof.
WALLACE STEVENS

Money is a kind of poetry.
WALLACE STEVENS

A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
WALLACE STEVENS

We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
WALLACE STEVENS

Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intoleran...
WALLACE STEVENS

The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream.
WALLACE STEVENS

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
WALLACE STEVENS

A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have.
WALLACE STEVENS

Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.
WALLACE STEVENS

Hard writing makes easy reading.
WALLACE STEGNER

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue an...
WALLACE STEGNER

A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
WALLACE STEGNER

In real life, every person is the leading man or woman. We don't think of ourselves as supportin...
WALLACE SHAWN

There's nothing regular about my life at all, really. I don't keep a regular schedule and ev...
WALLACE SHAWN

I'm afraid that the passage of time is mostly lost on me. If you were to open up my head you wou...
WALLACE SHAWN

Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
WALLACE SHAWN

Contrary to the popular misconception, the actor is not necessarily a specialist in imitating or por...
WALLACE SHAWN

I sincerely believe that if Bush and Cheney recognized the full humanity of other people's mothe...
WALLACE SHAWN

After being in one movie, it didn't seem like that would be my life. I had done several jobs, br...
WALLACE SHAWN

I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
WALLACE SHAWN

I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most oth...
WALLACE SHAWN

I don't happen to have a sense of humor personally, so I don't know what's funny about a...
WALLACE SHAWN

Patriotism is considered to be an emotion a person ought to feel. But why? Why is it nobler to love ...
WALLACE SHAWN

I'm being mocked because I don't live up to a socially determined view of what other people ...
WALLACE SHAWN

My personal life is lived as 'me,' but my professional life is lived as other people. In oth...
WALLACE SHAWN

I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.
WALLACE SHAWN

'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would...
WALLACE SHAWN

We are not what we seem. We are more than what we seem. The actor knows that. And because the actor ...
WALLACE SHAWN

It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to...
WALLACE SHAWN

I am recognized a lot for 'Clueless,' but I am recognized a great deal for 'The Princess...
WALLACE SHAWN

When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expr...
WALLACE SHAWN

We're in an emergency situation. The United States has become an absolutely terrifying country, ...
WALLACE SHAWN

Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding any...
WALLACE SHAWN

I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my frien...
WALLACE SHAWN

'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I...
WALLACE SHAWN

Under no circumstance is any proverbial player ever more significant than the collective.
CARLOS WALLACE

You're a good man," Fang said. "You're the last good man in this whole town. All the good that could...
DANIEL WALLACE

In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and...
MIKE WALLACE

... I was reminded of a remark of Willa Cather's, that you can't paint sunlight, you can only paint ...
WALLACE STEGNER

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her,
Alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams
An...
WALLACE STEVENS

The reading of a poem should be an experience. Its writing must be all the more so.
WALLACE STEVENS

Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a wom...
WALLACE STEVENS

O! Desolated Scotland, too credulous of fair speeches, and not aware of the calamities which are com...
WILLIAM WALLACE

Campaigns bring out the warriors in everybody.
NICOLLE WALLACE

I think a lot of people in television news look at the cable networks with great envy.
CHRIS WALLACE

Cut blocking is not fair, it's going after the legs. It would be the same thing if in NASCAR you wer...
AL WALLACE

Football was a game that had kicked me around pretty good for a few years. I almost called him and s...
AL WALLACE

If you look at the film like we did this morning, he's making more plays after the first and second ...
AL WALLACE

You win football games by stopping the run and 1,800 yards this year is definitely a priority for us...
AL WALLACE

It's a good feeling to go out and play like we did. So many guys made so many plays today. We gave t...
AL WALLACE

It's going to be interesting. They have a great team. Some great weapons on offense and their defens...
AL WALLACE

You try to contain (Vick) as best you can, but once he's in your sights you have to open fire. If yo...
AL WALLACE

With our legs and knees there is enough bad stuff that can happen on accident. But to allow someone ...
AL WALLACE

I fell down in the mud and here it comes falling down in my lap.
AL WALLACE

It's kind of scary. You look at the things they're doing, 4-0 now, it's kind of parallel to what we ...
AL WALLACE

I think the long-term potential is very, very good. There's a large amount of energy in the ocean.
ALAN WALLACE

These guys are so dedicated and passionate about what they do.
ALAN WALLACE

I'm a qualified lifeguard and have being teaching people how to surf for five years now. Victor used...
ALAN WALLACE

I have had this ambition for quite a long time but just did not know how to do it.
ALAN WALLACE

The existence of biases hurts recruiting. Intentionally overlooking some things just because you wan...
ALAN WALLACE

I don't know what religious people do. I kind of wished I'd been a Christian with the blind ...
MARCIA WALLACE

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclo...
WALLACE STEVENS

They said, You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, Things as th...
WALLACE STEVENS

I never had the slightest desire to be a major league manager, and all knew it. But Ban Johnson, Bob...
BOBBY WALLACE

When I was a boy, the priest, my uncle, carefully inculcated upon me this proverb, which I then lear...
WILLIAM WALLACE

Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low
WALLACE SAYRE

Is killing a known terrorist wrong? I ask this, did the terrorist allow any of his victims quarter? ...
T.R. WALLACE

I don't expect people to forget my brash words or deeds. But I ask that they try to remember the...
GEORGE WALLACE

There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersect...
WALLACE STEGNER

Opusculum paedagogicum
The pears are not viols,
Nudes or bottles.
They resemble nothing els...
WALLACE STEVENS

In the midst of combat, we learned a great deal about mankind and its many different races, creeds a...
CARLOS WALLACE

Poetry is the statement of a relation between a man and the world.
WALLACE STEVENS

Perhaps there is a degree of perception at which what is real and what is imagines are one: a state ...
WALLACE STEVENS

The poet is the priest of the invisible.
WALLACE STEVENS

One cannot be pessimistic about the West. This is the native home of hope. When it fully learns that...
WALLACE STEGNER

I don't think people think about Zook anymore at Florida. He's just a memory there now.
ALLEN WALLACE

If he (Schilling) goes to Washington that will be a giant positive for them in many different ways.
ALLEN WALLACE

A player makes a name for himself and then causes younger players to look and see what can be accomp...
ALLEN WALLACE

If you win the mythical recruiting title, it shows you're focused, you've got momentum and that you'...
ALLEN WALLACE

They [Stoops and Carroll] have a unique ability to plan for the short term and the long term at the ...
ALLEN WALLACE

It's always harder to stay at the top. Soon they're going to find out what it's like to try to recru...
ALLEN WALLACE

You don't see Penn State hanging on in the latter stages of these recruiting races for difference ma...
ALLEN WALLACE

I think it's case of Penn State not focusing on the right kids. You don't see them often bringing in...
ALLEN WALLACE

They have the stature now where they can appeal to anyone, anyplace.
ALLEN WALLACE

Ultimately, it’s about determining what matters most to you; what’s important; what it will take...
CARLOS WALLACE

A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.
DANIEL WALLACE

Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
WALLACE STEVENS

How red the rose that is the soldier
WALLACE STEVENS

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.
WALLACE STEVENS

Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, ...
WALLACE STEVENS

Perhaps it is of more value to infuriate philosophers than to go along with them.
WALLACE STEVENS

The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.
WALLACE STEVENS

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
WALLACE STEVENS

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. ...
WALLACE STEVENS

I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing...
WALLACE STEVENS

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
LEW WALLACE

How has the human spirit ever survived the terrific literature with which it has had to contend?
WALLACE STEVENS

As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
WALLACE STEVENS

Civilization must be destroyed. The hairy saints of the North have earned this crumb by their compla...
WALLACE STEVENS

The imagination is man's power over nature.
WALLACE STEVENS

Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.
WALLACE RICE

If some really acute observer made as much of egotism as Freud has made of sex, people would forget ...
WALLACE STEVENS

One is never more on trial than in the moment of excessive good fortune.
LEW WALLACE

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the thr...
WALLACE STEVENS

Among twenty snowy mountains,
The only moving thing
Was the eye of the blackbird.
WALLACE STEVENS

How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more th...
WALLACE STEVENS

Union of the weakest develops strength not wisdom. Can all men, together, avenge one of the leaves t...
WALLACE STEVENS

I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. Th...
WALLACE STEVENS

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, poli...
WALLACE STEVENS

The genuine artist is never true to life. He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of ...
WALLACE STEVENS

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosu...
WALLACE STEVENS

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
WALLACE STEVENS

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of ...
IRVING WALLACE

If sex were all, then every trembling hand
Could make us squeak, like dolls, the wished-for words...
WALLACE STEVENS

I know what I should love to do--to build a study; to write, and to think of nothing else. I want to...
LEW WALLACE

Any tax over 12-14% -- regardless of the base -- will corrupt enough taxpayers to render the system ...
STEVE WALLACE

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which...
WALLACE STEVENS

[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
WALLACE STEGNER

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
WALLACE STEVENS

Everybody wants to do 'The View.' It's this iconic show. When I worked at the White Hous...
NICOLLE WALLACE

To Edward, I cannot be a traitor, for I owe him no allegiance; he is not my sovereign; he never rece...
WILLIAM WALLACE

When I went to Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, what I really wanted to be was a radio announcer.
MIKE WALLACE

It would be absurd for me to diagnose Sarah Palin with a sprained ankle, let alone any sort of menta...
NICOLLE WALLACE

To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice...
IRVING WALLACE

I used to have acne when I was a kid growing up. You can imagine how serious that was in making you ...
MIKE WALLACE

Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
WALLACE STEVENS

A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalt...
NICOLLE WALLACE

I didn't have a special secret about Sarah Palin. I just had a feeling and some concerns. Her bl...
NICOLLE WALLACE

We must not be misled by left-wing incompetent news media that, day after day, feed us a diet of fan...
GEORGE WALLACE

There are few things that weigh on a person’s ability to grow and thrive more than insecurity. One...
CARLOS WALLACE

People spend money they don’t have on clothes and accessories they don’t need to fill a void. No...
CARLOS WALLACE

Insecurity is a powerful enemy. It forces people to use make-up, plastic surgery, collagen injection...
CARLOS WALLACE

Happiness will never flourish in a life bereft of optimism.
CARLOS WALLACE

I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of art...
WALLACE SHAWN

Um, Larry likes to coach.
BEN WALLACE

What we focus on every night is going out there and making this thing work and finding ways to win g...
BEN WALLACE

Whoever wins this is the world real basketball champion.
BEN WALLACE

Right now, I'm not really thinking about any of that. I'm just out here trying to have fun, play bas...
BEN WALLACE

It definitely helped our team. I think it helped everybody on our team get better. He played a major...
BEN WALLACE

He didn't cut it, did he? Good. I like that hair. I'm rolling with him.
BEN WALLACE

I think our whole team has picked it up. We're getting the ball moved from side to side, forcing tea...
BEN WALLACE

All that hard work is nothing if we don't continue to play the way we've played. Everybody's focus h...
BEN WALLACE

They're a struggling team right now, trying to find their identity. I thought last year they had all...
BEN WALLACE

That's how we've been playing all year. We're not going to panic regardless of what the situation is...
BEN WALLACE

Employment is improving, or at least stabilizing.
ANDREW WALLACE

We saw an additional fall this morning after yesterday's dramatic fall, and bond futures touched a n...
ANDREW WALLACE

We are going to see some recovery in the economy, but maybe not as much as some people expected.
ANDREW WALLACE

We're taking our cues from the stock market. Bonds are at a three-month high today [Wednesday].
ANDREW WALLACE

The team gave us a really good car despite the little practice time we had but we still don't have t...
ANDY WALLACE

I've been coming here since the '50s.
ANDY WALLACE

You need very good reliability and a car that has strength. Many of us are in the same boat this yea...
ANDY WALLACE

Last year I thought the field was as strong as it's ever been, and it's better this year. Unless you...
ANDY WALLACE

What we are doing is just a sport and the situation with MDA puts things in perspective. No matter w...
ANDY WALLACE

My sense is that this bounce in bond prices and drop in yield is probably short-term.
ANDY WALLACE

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.
WALLACE STEGNER

What ever happened to the passion we all had to improve ourselves, live up to our potential, leave a...
WALLACE STEGNER

I want the best apparel, I want the best field playing surface, I want the best coaches. I just want...
AUDREY WALLACE

We're looking to raise money through them to get us two new synthetic turf playing surfaces. So when...
AUDREY WALLACE

A lot of the girls don't really want to talk about it ... but the shooting was kind of the impetus b...
AUDREY WALLACE

I have three girls who have been playing together for four years. The rest have played for one or tw...
AUDREY WALLACE

We came into big-time lacrosse-playing territory. I was not setting us up for failure. I wanted a fe...
AUDREY WALLACE

Every single thing happens for a reason. I truly believe that.
AUDREY WALLACE

I met him in October, and he said he would lend his name to our lacrosse classic. This significant m...
AUDREY WALLACE

It certainly is bittersweet for me. I am a Spring-Ford graduate and you always want to see your alma...
AUDREY WALLACE

The youth program has kids coming in from all other areas of San Diego. So the girls that are coming...
AUDREY WALLACE

It's a much different game here. It's a faster-paced game, the checking is rougher, the stick skills...
AUDREY WALLACE

True beauty comes from the inside out. We have to work on our mental, emotional, spiritual and physi...
CARLOS WALLACE

It was probably my fault that I had never asked them before if they wanted to be more involved, but ...
ANNE WALLACE

It was quite awesome, I still can't quite believe it.
ANNE WALLACE

There's a lot of fraud that is not being identified as fraud, not being measured accurately. It's wr...
ANNE WALLACE

They couldn?t explain it to us, either,
ANNE WALLACE

The water tastes fine, ... There?s no smell or anything. But I kept wondering. I wonder if it?s OK. ...
ANNE WALLACE

The greatest thing is the motivation, it makes you kick into gear, being around all these people who...
ANNE WALLACE

it changed my writing life, and here [my daughter and I] are, working on something together.
ANNE WALLACE

ITAC was driven by [financial services] CEOs who recognized that identity theft was a huge problem f...
ANNE WALLACE

Now ITAC has achieved its second objective, getting more information about cases of identity theft i...
ANNE WALLACE

As Governor of my country, I have been an enemy to its enemies; I have slain the English; I have mor...
WILLIAM WALLACE

I have mortally opposed the English king; I have stormed and taken the towns and castles which he un...
WILLIAM WALLACE

It's irresistible. You look at Matt Simms and imagine hundreds of conversations he's had with his fa...
ALLEN WALLACE

Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.
LEW WALLACE

It's astonishing what you learn and feel and see along the way. That's why a reporter's ...
MIKE WALLACE

A man came up to me at a party and asked if I wanted to be in his video game. I of course said yes. And then it turned out it was 'Assassin's Creed', so that was great. They let me ad lib a lot and mess about and be very snarky indeed, and I'm thrilled by the success of all their hard work.

Danny Wallace

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