David James Quotes

Be mindful of your self-talk. It's a conversation with the universe.

People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.

To every Armageddonist, every earth lover must keep saying with all the sincerity and affection we can muster, “May God make this world as beautiful to you as it has been to me.

But I finally concluded that it is an inalienable right of lovers everywhere to become temporarily worthless to the world, it may even be their duty.

The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest

And into the brown paper bag of my heart, Eddy slipped a smile.

We hear nothing so clearly as what comes out of silence.

To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited it for a while, learned a little something, and emerged grateful.

I started having doubts right on top of my certainty.

It's not nice going into the supermarket and the woman at the till is thinking: 'Dodgy keeper'.

... the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches.

I once drew a picture of Jack Nicholson in The Shining. But I put it away after a Feng Shui expert told me about the bad vibes

I had never done any theater in high school, which actually worked to my benefit. I didn't develop any bad habits.

Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.

Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.

I worked with a man named Patty Crane who was Errol Flynn's stand-in back in the '30s in Hollywood.

Usually in fist fights you get punched in the face.

You can never rely on musicians. I quit high school at one point to make a go of it with this band and we kept breaking up. So I went back to school.

But churches always have been the leading cause of the need for churches.

Fiction writing feels more honest to me.

I'd taken a big fat crisis off my shoulders and loaded it all on Jesus, which seemed unfair in a way, but was exactly what the Bible recommended.

But I do enjoy the freedom of doing a movie and then having some time off.

I've never made choices based on money - I always trust my gut.

I remember on 'JAG,' Joe Jackson punched Stephen Culp and shattered his nose.

You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out that playing ball is the highest purpose God ever invented the human male body for.

My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

Is the work of sun worshippers to honor those who think they can see the sun? Or to worship the sun?

I've always been fairly reserved and laid-back.

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language.

The environment, what surrounds you, is so alive and delightful and complex.

The principles that will save Earth's life are the same principles that save the living souls of humans: ineluctable spiritual principles.

I felt a rush of trust--felt that life might be not just tolerable but beautiful, if I could only remember to find the bare Present.

Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.

The stars above Italian clubs' badges shows you how many times they have won the Gazetta.

I'm the star of the show. I should have a decent haircut.

Life is short. It's God's fault. Sorry.

A fly rod extends a fly fisher's being as surely as do imagination, empathy or prayer.

She's thirty-four years old. In fifty, sixty years, she'll be dead, and everything reminds her of this fact but him. With Arnie, she imagines she might live forever.

Aaron's therapist calls him a wounded bird, but, I ask you, who wouldn't care for a wounded bird? What kind of person sees a bird with a broken wing, cat on the horizon, and walks on by?

I gave him everything from my lunches I hate, which is called Charity.