D. T. Max Quotes

People seem to think there is something inherently noble and virtuous in the desire to go for a walk.

Fate weaves the darkness, which is perhaps why she weaves so badly.

A man's work is rather the needful supplement to himself than the outcome of it.

Women who love the same man have a kind of bitter freemasonry.

It is so much easier to covet what one hasn't than to revel in what one has. Also, it is so much easier to be enthusiastic about what exists than about what doesn't.

Of course we all know that Morris was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking round him has always tired me.

A crowd, proportionately to its size, magnifies all that in its units pertains to the emotions, and diminishes all that in them pertains to thought.

There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go.

Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused.

Not philosophy, after all, not humanity, just sheer joyous power of song, is the primal thing in poetry.

The literary gift is a mere accident - is as often bestowed on idiots who have nothing to say worth hearing as it is denied to strenuous sages.

Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it.

She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Reverence is a good thing, and part of its value is that the more we revere a man, the more sharply are we struck by anything in him (and there is always much) that is incongruous with his greatness.

Every one, even the richest and most munificent of men, pays much by cheque more light-heartedly than he pays little in specie.

The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.

It is a fact that not once in all my life have I gone out for a walk. I have been taken out for walks; but that is another matter.

Beauty and the lust for learning have yet to be allied.

By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry.

Every kind of writing is hypocritical.

The Socratic manner is not a game at which two can play.

I prefer that laughter shall take me unawares. Only so can it master and dissolve me.

What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century

I think that if youve got 5 million people that enjoy drama and invest in characters, you must take the time to not worry about your job and getting sacked and just go for it and hit it again.

The only person Ill marry is myself. Believe me, my ego is that big.

I can lip read, so I know what other people are saying about me - especially when I clock them in my rear view mirror.

I appreciate some people enjoy reality TV and enjoy being a part of it - and I do watch it - but it isn't for me.

As an actor, you've got to maintain a bit of mystery and at least part of your private life, otherwise the game is up.

I'm an actor - I want to be known for that.

Who would I marry? I know, my ego. We'd make the perfect couple.

If I were a chocolate I'd eat myself. Seriously, we're all interested in ourselves and what other people are saying about us to some extent.

I hardly ever go to showbiz parties, it's not my style. That doesn't mean to say I don't have a good time. I love hanging out with mates.

I like to play music that people can feel deeply but it's also interesting to listen to - a nice balance between cathartic and pop music.

My privilege as a white Jewish American in Israel is a major factor in getting me so much access to the key institutions of the Jewish state.

If we don't kill, we will cease to exist

Without U.S. troops, Afghanistan, like Iraq, could descend into chaos.

Zombies have no memories of their former life. You wont see the undead trying to wash windows or do your taxes. All they know how to do is swarm and feed.

I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

They didn't break me. I broke myself.

A true crisis. Class 3 outbreaks, more than any other, demonstrate the clear threat posed by the living dead. Zombies will number in the thousands, encompassing an area of several hundred miles.

We've been at peace about as long as e were at war.

I'm not a horror fan. I'm an anti-horror fan. I think horror fans feel deep down in the pit of their souls, they feel safe, and therefore bored. And therefore they want to be scared.

If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic, global story, because that requires a giant, epic, global budget.

I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.

You assume things, like whatever country has more firepower wins the wars, and that's actually not true at all.

You can watch 'Dawn of the Dead' and still sleep at night. Try that with 'The Day After'.

If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it.

When I was 16, the first book I ever actually purchased with my own money, in fact, and had read on my own time was "Hunt for Red October" by Tom Clancy...

I don't mind my work being a record of the time it was written in.