Daniel Tammet Quotes

Six is the hardest number for me to experience, the smallest. It's the absence of something - it's cold, dark, almost like a black hole. If someone tells me they are depressed, I might imagine myself in the hole of a six to help me empathise.

Daniel Tammet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: January 31, 1979

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MyselfExperienceMeColdBlack

I have always been small and one of the smallest heptathletes out there. And earlier in my career, I was faced with coaches and athletes who felt I was too small to be a multi-eventer. It gives you a push to show you can do it.

Jessica Ennis-Hill

You Can Do ItSmallPushYouCareer

I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.

John Green

MoneyCrazyBookThinkLoseI Think

I'm very big into just feeling good and doing what I want; I'm not very calculated or thoughtful about my moves.

Jen Kirkman

GoodFeeling GoodDoingThoughtful

The real breeders of discontent and alien doctrines of government and philosophies subversive of good citizenship are such as these who take the law into their own hands.

John L. Lewis

GoodGovernmentLawHandsAlienOwn

You'll find that empty vessels make the most sound.

John Lydon

YouFindSoundEmptyMakeMost

Corporations aren't people. They have no brains, no consciences, no capacity for intent or guilt.

Robert Reich

PeopleGuiltBrainsIntentCapacity

I'm here to make people laugh and help them forget their troubles, too! So I just try to bring heart and bring jokes!

Matthew Moy

HeartPeopleLaughHelpForgetTry

Before our albums are released I feel like we still own it, that we have control over our music. But once it's out there in the world it's no longer ours.

Chris Martin

MusicControlWorldFeelOverOut

I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles.

Bruce Springsteen

AirplanePersonKnowStreetBandUs

More and more companies are updating their leave policies to reflect an understanding that being family-friendly is a smart investment in their workforce and America's future.

Suzan DelBene

FutureSmartUnderstandingAmerica

One thing that in my reporting that I found and was amazed to find was that, as far as I could determine, neither high-level White House officials in the Bush administration nor even the top brass at the CIA even knew the history of water boarding when they approved it.

Scott Shane

HistoryWaterHouseFindWhiteTop

My comeback was not about winning or losing; it was about the feeling of being able to compete at top level again.

Thomas Muster

LosingWinningComebackFeelingTop

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