Daft Quotes

• I may be daft but I'm no' stupid!

  Terry Pratchett

  Stupid, May

  Terry Pratchett (2010). “I Shall Wear Midnight: (Discworld Novel 38)”, p.154, Random House

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• Daft as a brush? I'm daft, but I'm not daft as a brush!

  Paul Gascoigne

  Brushes

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• As a writer, you play this daft game with yourself - you're constantly looking for distractions, anything to stop you from writing, but you're constantly fighting the distractions to write as well.

  Irvine Welsh

  Writing, Fighting, Games

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Believe me, the so-called primitive races who worshipped animals as gods were not so daft as people choose to pretend. At least they were humble. Why should not God have come to the earth as an earth-worm? There are a great many more worms than men, and they do a great deal more good.

  T. H. White

  Believe, Humble, Animal

  T.H. White (2012). “The Book of Merlyn: The Unpublished Conclusion to The Once and Future King”, p.30, University of Texas Press

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• I remember seeing the full Daft Punk pyramid show in 2007. I went alone, drove up in my Honda Fit, bought a ticket off a scalper for $150, got on the floor, and had the best time of my life. I didn't have a drink, no drugs. But I was high out of my mind. It changed my life.

  Skrillex

  Pyramids, Drug, Mind

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. March 28, 2012.

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• When you’re in a position to be paparazzi-ed just walking down the street, you’d look a little daft if you were smiling all the time.

  Victoria Beckham

  Looks, Littles, Paparazzi

  "Victoria Beckham, Working Girl". Interview with Sarah Lyall, www.nytimes.com. August 22, 2013.

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• We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I would rather see that impulse directed into the adoration of daft singers, thicko footballers and air-headed screen actors than into the veneration of dogmatic zealots, fanatical preachers, militant politicians and rabid cultural commentators.

  Stephen Fry

  Hero, Air, Valhalla

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• Whut's the plan, Rob?" said one of them. "Okay, lads, this is what we'll do. As soon as we see somethin', we'll attack it. Right?" This caused a cheer. "Ach, 'tis a good plan," said Daft Wullie.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cheer, Said, Okay

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• I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desire—well that's a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They're big and squishy and full of daft dreams. They flounce off to write poetry and moon at folk who aren't worth the mooning. Bones are the ones that have to make the journey, fight the monster, kneel before whomever is big on kneeling these days. Bones do the work for the heart's grand plans. Bones know what you need. Hearts only know want.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Dream, Writing, Heart

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.402, Feiwel & Friends

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• I'll be a story in your head. That's okay. We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one, eh? 'Cause it was, you know. It was the best. The daft old man who stole a magic box and ran away. Did I ever tell you that I stole it? Well I borrowed it. I was always going to take it back.

  Steven Moffat

  Men, Magic, Stories

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• Men are daft around women, incautious and boastful.

  Kristin Cashore

  Men

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.135, Penguin

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• It's daft, locking us up," said Nanny. "I'd have had us killed." "That's because you're basically good," said Magrat. "The good are innocent and create justice. The bad are guilty, which is why they invent mercy.

  Terry Pratchett

  Justice, Nannies, Guilty

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• One of my biggest disappointments is watching the trailer for the second Lord of the Rings film and having Gandalf in it. Why? He died in the first one, why give it away in the trailer just to try and sell 1000 more seats? It's daft.

  Nick Frost

  Disappointment, Giving, Trying

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• Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.

  Roy Fuller

  Spiritual, Age, Barbarians

  Alfred Alvarez, Roy Broadbent Fuller, Anthony Thwaite (1970). “A. Álvarez, Roy Fuller, Anthony Thwaite”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• I'm more open to give things a go, but what I'm not good at yet is holding back. If something is daft or rubbish, I just go, I can't be doing it.

  Karl Pilkington

  Giving, Rubbish, Holding Back

  Source: www.geektown.co.uk

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• My boyfriend is a chef, so he cooks for me, but I cook too. The only time I felt pressure was when he asked how I wanted vegetables chopped, so I described in sizes whereas he knows the right words. I felt a bit daft then.

  Sharleen Spiteri

  Vegetables, My Boyfriend, Pressure

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• I think if you're not going to look so daft walking down the street split your workouts a little bit.

  Greg Rutherford

  Workout, Thinking, Looks

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• The boys in the office preferred Daft Punk and the song "Robot Rock" as an anthem, speaking excitedly and without irony about wanting to become robots one day. That made me wonder: Why? What's the pull of being a robot?

  Katherine Losse

  Song, Boys, Rocks

  Katherine Losse (2012). “The Boy Kings: A Journey Into the Heart of the Social Network”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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• I've always had as many powerful, creative ladies in my life as I have men, and you could probably describe some of those relationships as romantic. I think everyone's bisexual to some degree or another; it's just a question of whether or not you choose to recognise it and embrace it. Personally, I think choosing between men and women is like choosing between cake and ice cream. You'd be daft not to try both when there are so many different flavours.

  Bjork

  Powerful, Bisexual, Men

  Diva magazine, October 2004.

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• The FA Cup means a lot. There is a real passion here for the competition which you don't get elsewhere. It's a love affair. It's part and parcel of living up here. People might think I'm daft, but I'm not wrong; I'd rather win the Cup than the League.

  Alan Shearer

  Real, Mean, Passion

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• That letter was your whole future, you daft prince." "It was my past. I lost that the night my parents died. But I found you, Deryn. Maybe I wasn't meant to end the war, but I was meant to find you. I know that. You've saved me from having any reason to keep going." "We save each other. That's how it works.

  Scott Westerfeld

  War, Past, Night

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• I am sorry " I murmured. "I know. I ought not to have threatened to beat you " he returned. He pressed a kiss to my hair. "I just cannot bear to be kept out of your life " I said into the dark. He gave a sigh. "Julia you daft woman. When you will you understand You are my life.

  Deanna Raybourn

  Sorry, Dark, Kissing

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• While ye sleep in my arms, I can say things to ye that would be daft and silly waking, and your dreams will know the truth of them.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Dream, Silly, Sleep

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1368, Dell

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• He claimed that nearby gun thunder cleared the mind - but most everybody else agreed it made you daft.

  Vernor Vinge

  Gun, Mind, Thunder

  Vernor Vinge (2010). “A Fire Upon The Deep”, p.373, Macmillan

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• Who are we to be so arrogant as to say 'now WE know what's best, THAT era was full of daft ideas' etc. There will be plenty things we take as normal and good now that future generations will look back at in horror or amusement.

  Sean Michael Wilson

  Ideas, Generations, Looks

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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