Al David Quotes

Your Grace," she said, "I have only one question. Do you wish this man crippled, or dead?

It was rumored she held grudges till they died of old age, then had them stuffed and mounted.

Giving orders you know won't be obeyed is one of the best ways I know to destroy your own authority.

This would be a vastly better world to live in if Matt Drudge decided to handle his emotional problems more responsibly, and set himself on fire.

You need to quickly recognize when and why you're being spooned bullshit. That happens very often, but it happens for a reason.

How we organize our world reflects not only the world but also our interests, our passions, our needs, our dreams.

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation.

Your organization is becoming hyperlinked. Whether you like it or not. It's bottom-up; it's impossible.

Some people would say I've made it now.

My life at the moment is a bit like my wardrobe. Organised chaos.

Id love to work with the people who really got the film industry going again through the 70s: Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi.

I think actors do make really, really wonderful directors.

I do regard myself as very lucky.

I would love to direct a feature and have Robert Connolly produce it. That would be really fab.

I've ended up spending more time in front of a camera than on stage, but the stage is where I come from.

Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it. I feel very comfortable in playing, whether it be in front of a camera or on stage.

Australia is a phenomenally beautiful country, and every time I go away and come back, it never ceases to amaze me.

Well you just have to own it, I suppose. Own the character, which is difficult.

I have a sort of long-term plan to direct. I'm pragmatic about it. I realize I don't need to rush it or force it.

Nobody really knows what the market is going to do, but it sure looks like we are going to have a lot more volatility.

China's stock market is not very big. And yet when stock market has a bad day in China, it seems, Europe has a bad day and then we have a bad day.

There is also a concern that there is a lack of demand of oil. And so when commodity prices fall, it's good if you happen to be a consumer, but it's sometimes seen as symptom of a weakening economy.

If the government can't get the economy moving again, they have a lot of fundamental problems.

It may be that the U.S. stock market starts to rise if people think it's gone far enough.

I think the one thing that's going on here is that people are saying, uh-oh, the Chinese economy might be slowing more than we thought and the government is having a hard time stimulating it again.

Chinese don't really believe in markets. They like stability, they like control.

I think the Chinese are really amateurs when it comes to running markets.

The only reason you would want your currency to fall, if you could control it, is in order to get more exports.

If you don't have a set of principles that you can explain for what you are doing, then how can anybody know what you're going to do next?

The Pentagon as a legitimate target? I actually don't have an opinion on that and it's important I not have an opinion on that as I sit here in my capacity right now.

Anytime destruction of another is needed in order to advance one's own aims or goals, then the goals need to be reevaluated.

A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.

Poetry is a break for freedom.

It doesn't interest me if there is one God or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel abandoned. If you know despair or can see it in others.

The outlaw is the radical, the one close to the roots of existence. The one who refuses to forget their humanity and, in remembering, helps everyone else remember, too.

If I don't have time for the writing, it's because I'm not making that time. It's really just a question of whether you want to or not, whether you feel you deserve to write or not.

Heritage saves no one.

The church expect too much from the pastors and there's barely anytime left for prayer.

Our greatest concern is moving away from Christ as Lord.

Europe as a whole is increasingly jesttisoning the old path of the Christian fathers.

Roger Scruton is one of our great men of speculation

We do not believe in quotas. They would not only be undesirable, they would be illegal. There is legal protection for the autonomy of universities in running their own admission arrangements.

The DSA scheme has not been reviewed for 25 years

My challenge as university minister is about getting right balance of teaching and research.

Did the Prime Minister have some sort of grudge against you by sending this publicity crazed person into your Department?

Some pretty senior young individuals in and around the Cabinet should share the responsibility for talking up an election and referring publicly on the radio to where the risk lies.

Food is the most important influence on your health. It is even more important than your thoughts and emotions.

Here is the one truth you know for sure: there is no truth for sure.

When the body has too much to deal with, it stops being able to get rid of its waste efficiently and requires more support to help it fight off what is attacking it.

Nature learns and changes as a result of stimuli, and certain habitats of nature will be formed that weren't there before. That's how I look at reality.