Al David Quotes

I admire the ballad form most of all. Stories are irresistible. I've always had a passion for stories, the endings being of particular importance.

Loyalty is the Tory's secret weapon.

It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didnt introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.

I remember that Charles Schulz, at the end of his life, had eyes full of tears for Charlie Brown. I thought about the reason for all his emotion: he had lived for 50 years with them.

The way the function dictates the form... elegant lines... nothing extraneous... this shoe perfectly expresses the essence of shoeness.

How can we call death-about which we know nothing- the opposite of life, when we barely comprehend life itself?

I didnt want to be famous. I just wanted to earn enough money to have a nice life and enjoy acting.

I feel it's a person's duty to participate in the governing of the country in which he lives.

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.

Visualizing information is a form of knowledge compression.

It's enjoyable to just drink in an image. It's effortless. That struck me as an interesting way of looking at it: I do all the grunt work so you can enjoy.

I think it's good practice, if you're a writer, or anyone who's shaping narrative, to be flexible and open with the direction of the narrative.

I'm happy to provide that service. But that's the power of it. A good infographic that's been really worked on looks simple and easy, but it actually required a lot of processing.

I was a freelance journalist, and it was a struggle because I had to pitch all the time, research, and stay on top of subjects.

Sometimes the data has a sense of a structure within it, especially if I'm looking at networks or relationships, which generally lend themselves to a certain style.

Your life will be rich for others only as it is rich for you.

Books fall open, you fall in.

The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.

Life is a garment we continuously alter, but which never seems to fit.

But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.

March is outside the door Flaming some old desire As man turns uneasily from his fire.

I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who we are and how we came to be the way we are.

I love to go to the places where things happen. I like to walk the walk and see how the light falls and what winter feels like.

A leader must look and act the part.

The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have facts missing or some wrong, and reach the larger truth.

There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.

I think that we need history as much as we need bread or water or love.

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

You have to have wisdom and knowledge as well as virtue to preserve your rights and liberties.

The most interesting people are never perfect.

He had kept his head, kept his health and his strength, bearing up under a weight of work and worry that only a few could have carried.

In time I began to understand that it's when you start writing that you really find out what you don't know and need to know.

Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer and more provocative questions about who we are today.

You've got to marinate your head, in that time and culture. You've got to become them." (Speaking about researching, and reading, and immersing yourself in History)

You can't love what you don't know much about. You can't convince, stimulate, hold the attention, teach, if you don't know what you're talking about.

It was an utterly phenomenal achievement.

Nobody ever lived in the past.

Home is really where education does begin.

I would pay to do what I do if I had to.

However little television you watch, watch less.

I love all sides of the work but that doesn't mean it isn't hard.

Only those who [do] nothing [make] no mistakes.

You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.

When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries.

My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.

...Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out.

I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.

There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.