Daniel Ives > Daniel's Quotes

“You can live the dream or have the dream job, but not both.”
― Daniel & Keith Ives

“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.”
― Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey

“The straw that breaks the camel's back always looks light enough, until it lands.”
― Edgar Cantero, Meddling Kids

“If everyone who’s worth a damn just leaves as soon as possible, then what’s left?”
― Trae Crowder, The Liberal Redneck Manifesto: Draggin' Dixie Outta the Dark

“A good hustler isn't curious. A good hustler only wants his pay.”
― Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”
― Mark Twain

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.”
― Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

“Former police chief of Houston once said of me: “Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it ‘U.R. Hooked’ and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driver’s license for identification.”
― Frank W. Abagnale, Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake