A.C. Davis Quotes

Logan must survive. That is the only truth. The only goal. My sole mission.

We love each other. You love me, you do.” His eyes beseech me to believe it, to remember it, to feel it.

All I can think about is how I wanted to share those firsts with Logan and how I never knew it was an impossibility because it had already been taken away from me.

One cannot go over Niagara Falls in a barrel only slightly.

The car bomb is the poor man’s air force.

Everybody thinks it’s going to be different for them, Janice said. The dinosaurs thought so too.

Do either of you even play baseball?

In this business, until you're known as a monster, you're not a star

They do sometimes protest...At these times, she sounds authoritative. But she has no authority.

Have any sheep been seen walking out of the Library with seagoing adventurers clinging to their wool?

Wc What this country needs is more unemployed politicians.

The duke understood the danger in having an important conversation too often in one's head before having it with the intended party.

The person who wants to make it has to sweat. There are no short cuts. And you've got to have the guts to be hated.

In the race for love I was scratched.

Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it you can make it so.

If you risk nothing then you risk everything.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose.

A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything else.

To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor to be given the chance to create is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

Reform is born of need not pity.

Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do.

Don't play what's there play what's not there.

The first and great commandment is don't let them scare you.

The best course was to buy a house across a road from a cemetery and look at it every morning. Reminding yourself where it all ended anyway you'd never get upset about anything again.

Tragedy had its compensations. Once the worst misfortune occurred one never worried about the minor ones.

Any life truly lived is a risky business and if one puts up too many fences against the risks one ends by shutting out life itself.

To be born free is an accident to live free a responsibility to die free is an obligation.

Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile they are commonly planted too close.

She knows she is in Chicago. But she does not yet realize that she is in Illinois.

Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.

Can I just tell you, I think it's the most beautiful thing about young people today, it gives me so much hope for the future, that they don't really recognize race the way my generation does.

I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.

I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.

I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.

Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it's much more complicated than that.

As soon as you become a parent, everyone gives you their parenting advice. It's like an onslaught of information about how other people do it.

This has always been a motto of mine: Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work.

I believe every child has the right to a mother and a father. Men and women are not the same. That's not to say they're not entitled to equal rights, but they are not the same.

I think success is finding happiness! Everyone certainly has different goals in life, and things that are important to them, and also things that are not important to them.

A diet that is high in fat, sugar and salt makes it really hard for a body to function efficiently.

Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage.

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.

I've been on Prozac for 12 years and I'm off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven't felt like this in 12 years I'm like a giddy little kid.

I had all these tapes in my closet that I had shot years ago with my friend Jean-Michel Basquiat. I was working on a film about him when he died, and then I just put everything away. It was too sad.

The road to success runs uphill.

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

I think even when homeowners love their room, it's still a shock, because you left your house, went to sleep, came home and your room was dramatically and drastically different.

I loved 'Monsoon Wedding' and 'Lunchbox' because they had 'real' stories. I wish there are more films made like them.

My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.