John Darnielle Quotes

I'm excited to be a part of the Marvel universe because I grew up with it.

You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They loved the cowboys, and they loved Annie. There were young people seeing the show for the first time. I stayed for two years because I enjoyed it so much.

I love the comfort of daily life's routines: things like being able to read a paper on the subway. It's no accident that my favourite word is 'quotidian.'

I miss the common things, the things that used to really annoy me, like an alarm clock. The sound of your zipper as your fly is being pulled up so that you know it actually is up. The sound of the door as it closes, to know that it's really shut.

After 34 years, I feel like I did when I was starting out. I feel excited and feel I've never been better doing what I do.

Eden is that old-fashioned house we dwell in every day Without suspecting our abode until we drive away.

I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.

You just want to make something that's awesome and that people dig, and I'm excited about it.

Commonplaces never become tiresome. It is we who become tired when we cease to be curious and appreciative.

Now, even when I see the trailers, I get so excited because it's like I'm seeing a movie that I haven't seen at all before, whatsoever. And then I just happen to be in it.

Maybe you once were excited about that person God supernaturally brought into your life as a marriage partner, but now all the excitement has worn off. Don’t’ allow that sense of a miracle to slip away. Don’t get so familiar with each other that you take one another for granted.

Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful -- our own innocence.

I wish I could paint that picture. As a 20-year-old kid, that was a big thrill.

We live with them every day, and they come so easily to us that they cease to be precious.

It is exciting to hear one of your fondest ideas formulated in one fell swoop, better than you could have done yourself.

I'd like to make a shout out...SHOUT OUT!

I want to play every day. This year will be absolutely no different.

I feel like an old warhorse at the sound of a trumpet when I read about the capturing of rare beetles.

I joked recently that I thought 30 seconds a day for three years would be the best way to enjoy it, and I'm going to stand by that statement.

One does every day and without a second thought, what at another time would be the event of a year, perhaps of a life.

I usually dive head first and am really excited about that changes.

Piglet was so excited at the idea of being Useful that he forgot to be frightened any more, and when Rabbit went on to say that Kangas were only Fierce during the winter months, being at other times of an Affectionate Disposition, he could hardly sit still, he was so eager to begin being useful at once.

Today I am so at home in Dublin, more than in any other city, that I feel it has always been familiar to me. But, as with Belfast it took me years to penetrate its outer ugliness and dourness, so with Dublin it took me years to see through its soft charm to its bitter prickly kernel - which I quite like too.

I'm usually pretty reserved, but I really couldn't hold myself in because I was so excited for these guys.

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself "Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.