Daft Quotes - Page 3

• This world is half the devil's and my own, Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl and curling round the bud that forks her eye.

  Dylan Thomas

  Girl, Eye, Smoking

  Song: If I Were Tickled by the Rub of Love

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• We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft.

  John Lennon

  Music, Believe, Order

  "The Beatles". Book by Hunter Davies, 1968.

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• At the (record company) meeting Paul just kept mithering on about what we were going to do, so in the end I just said, 'I think you're daft. I want a divorce.'

  John Lennon

  Music, Divorce, Thinking

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• I heard 'Get Lucky'; it's just not my taste. It's great what Daft Punk does and the sound quality is great, but that whole disco vibe is not really my thing.

  Tiesto

  Sound Quality, Doe, Lucky

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• The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.

  Nicholas Royle

  Writing, Ideas, Poetry

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• Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.

  Dylan Thomas

  Horse, Sunday, Past

  Dylan Thomas, Ellen Raskin (2003). “A Child's Christmas in Wales”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• The truth is that trout fishermen scheme and lie and toss in their sleep. They dream of great dripping trout, shapely and elusive as mermaids, and arise cranky and haggard from their fantasies. They are moody and neglectful and all of them a little daft. Moreover they are inclined to drink too much.

  John D. Voelker

  Dream, Lying, Sleep

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• Reading one's own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted, overviolent, or daft, and then, suddenly, with the poet's tongue around them, your suspicion is made certain.

  Dylan Thomas

  Reading, Cat, Bags

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• I knew lots of Irish ladies in my life who would say daft things and then would just say something incredibly truthful in a very simple way with simple language - a few well chosen words that would take an intellectual five minutes to express. I like that.

  Steve Coogan

  Simple, Intellectual, Way

  "Steve Coogan Doesn’t Believe In Fairies". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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• I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.

  Mark E. Smith

  Book, Strange, Sometimes

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• I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft.

  Harriet Walter

  Silly, People, Tease

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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