{"author":"Danny Wallace","author_id":"Danny+Wallace","total_quotes":13,"quotes":[{"text":"Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type.","author":"Danny Wallace","tags":["words"],"id":11801,"author_id":"Danny+Wallace"},{"text":"And as I looked at the star, I realised what millions of other people have realised when looking at stars. We’re tiny. We don’t matter. We’re here for a second and then gone the next. We’re a sneeze in the life of the universe.","author":"Danny Wallace","tags":["astrophysics","humans","people","perspective","scale","space","stars","transient"],"id":26086,"author_id":"Danny+Wallace"},{"text":"But the happiest people are the ones who understand that good things occur when one allows them to.","author":"Danny Wallace","tags":["happiness"],"id":41954,"author_id":"Danny+Wallace"},{"text":"At first I assumed he was a Mexican, but slowly began to realise that a real Mexican probably wouldn't be wearing a sombrero in a London nightclub. And he'd probably have a real moustache, not a stick-on one. A Mexican with a stick-on moustache would be like a Super-Mexican, because he'd have two moustaches, and that'd be cool, because a Super-Mexican could probably use his poncho as a cape, and then I realised I was saying all this to the man's face.","author":"Danny Wallace","tags":["alcohol","humour","super-mexican","tequila"],"id":65992,"author_id":"Danny+Wallace"},{"text":"Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it's harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we'd taken the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd said yes.","author":"Danny Wallace","tags":["learning","regret"],"id":154878,"author_id":"Danny+Wallace"},{"text":"If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.","author":"Danny Wallace","tags":["responsibility"],"id":214586,"author_id":"Danny+Wallace"},{"text":"Sometimes the little opportunities that fly at us each day can have the biggest impact.","author":"Danny Wallace","tags":["little-things","opportunities"],"id":280631,"author_id":"Danny+Wallace"},{"text":"It appears your son was 85 percent curry!","author":"Danny Wallace","tags":["food","humor","masala-dosa"],"id":293388,"author_id":"Danny+Wallace"},{"text":"The only time you have no opportunities is when you decide to stop taking them.","author":"Danny Wallace","tags":["opportunities"],"id":310548,"author_id":"Danny+Wallace"},{"text":"I was saying yes because when you're in love, the world is full of possibilities, and when you're in love, you want to take every single one of them.","author":"Danny Wallace","tags":["love","optimism"],"id":365463,"author_id":"Danny+Wallace"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":13,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}