Al David Quotes
Wine is not a magic serum of truth. It just silences that smart little voice in your head which advises against saying some dumb shit.
This is not India. There are people here from every part of India, but Bombay isn't India. Bombay is an own-world, a world in itself. The real India is out there.
As a result of my hike, I am much more inclined to "do" things. I will have fewer "should have done"s even if it means incurring some "wish I hadn't"s.
So the criminals win, that's what you're saying? For now they do. But it's a long game, Jamison. And I always play for the long game.
Oh come, ‘though you have broken your promises a hundred times…Come home, stranger and alien, come home to me….Come home, space traveler, lover of leaving for I am here...
The Music blows wherever Music pleases, you hear it’s sound, but you cannot tell where the Music comes from or where the Music is going.
While the Holy Spirit is hidden, He is never, ever absent
New York City is where specks of dust aspire randomly with all their cunning to become grains of sand.
The city was a hive from this height, the people and the yellow cabs moving about in the street below like pre-programmed insects. (Dark City Lights)
Life is stranger than biology textbooks.
I now inhabit a life I don't deserve, but we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon
Enjoy your own authentic stupidity rather than strive vainly to be wise.
And you, You can be meanAnd I, I'll drink all the time'Cause we're lovers, And that is a factYes we're lovers, And that is that
Praising heroes who slay monsters is a writer’s most ancient task.
I totally don't know what to do." He got up and started pacing. "Am I supposed to get you a present? Or maybe a card. I'm completely lost.
It was during Latin that the Austro-Hungarians arrived with their dogs and zombies to kill everyone at the Eden College for Young Ladies.
He pinched the remaining chapters’ pages delicately between his fingers and sighed. He always hated reaching the end of a good book.
To think that she had read the same elegiac prose he now beheld with such quiet awe made his heart sing.
Can’t call ‘em zombies anymore, ” sighed Manny. He seemed almost wistful. “Now we gotta be all politically correct. It’s like the Cold Wars never happened.
Somebody should have warned the Trojans. Beware of gifts bearing Greeks.
God has a habit of using people, their gifts, and their resources to carry out His plans. In fact, we were created to be God’s deputies, doing His work on earth.
It is a horrible wonderful thing to be in love with you. To get to hear you sing for hour after hour but never be the subject of the song. To listen and listen and listen.
She is the weakness you think of as strength while I am the strength you have no idea is there.
The unrequited love of ones' only living offspring has its own particular slow acid burn
Those who are different, also have a tendency to think differently.
The world is full of people who think different is synonymous with wrong.
Life is full of little surprises.Time travel is full of big ones.
We cannot live side by side with obviously distressed people unless they are to blame and we are innocent. Nothing inside them or the way they live can be allowed to disturb our lives.
He never, even in the most casual conversation with friends, spoke a sentence which did not sound as if it was ready for the air.
He thinks of the all steps that gathered this party and marvels at the weaverless looms of fortune.
Betrayal. Lust. Secrecy. Devotion. I think we do these things to feel more alive. When the truth is that alive is alive -- you can feel it in anything, if you give it a chance.
The limit of a person's will, at least in one respect, is the limit of that person's ability to believe.
When libertarian sentiments take a populist form, it looks like this: a mix of anger, fear, anti-intellectualism, and fierce government hostility. Welcome to the Tea Party movement.
...a more open and honest appraisal of the true nature of Silicon Valley and its opportunities as well as the many problems.
Growing a business requires that we look at ourselves and change the way we make decisions.
There are things you forget naturally-computer passwords, your father's continuing relationship with life-and then there are things you can't forget that you wish you could.
This is 1987. A girl can be whatever she wants to be." "I know, " said Ray. "My mums a plumber.
People are so unnecessarily negative about envy. It really ought to be struck off the list of deadly sins.
For Jack Kennedy, who only made campaigning LOOK easy, it was, in fact, anything but.
That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor".
It doesn't do any good to say, 'This is what it means.' When you are spoon fed a film, people instantly know what it is. I like films that leave room to dream.
I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.