David Quotes

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

I get it. The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end.

She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.

She transforms once again into someone carefree, and I transform into someone whose only care is her.

The older you get, the wiser you are - this is true. But you also question what use this wisdom is.y

There has to be a moment at the beginning when you wonder whether you’re in love with the person or in love with the feeling of love itself.

Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.

I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.

That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.

Measure the hope of that moment, that feeling. Everything else will be measured against it.

iv. who was it who invented size zero? who was it who promised that if you got to a certain point you would no longer be?

Every person is a possibility. The hopeless romantics feel it most acutely, but even for others, the only way to keep going is to see every person as a possibility.

tiny: did someone die? me: yeah, i did. he smiles again at that. tiny: well, then... welcome to the afterlife.

Bad Girl!" She chided. "I'm pretty sure Boris is a boy," I said. "Oh, I know," Mrs. Basil E. assured me. "I just like to keep him confused," Then she and Boris headed off with my future.

I don’t like it when you use my shampoo, because then your hair smells like me, not you.

Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?

Belonging. Togetherness. These words are as complicated and confusing as the word love. It’s probably all the same thing. Or it would be if we let it be. I can only guess from observation.

Maybe, it's not the distance that's the problem, but how you handle it.

We keep saying, 'We have no other course.' What we should say is: 'We are not bright enough to see any other course.'

The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.

Centralization at the national capital or within a business undertaking always glorifies the importance of pieces of paper This dims the sense of reality.

So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere.

Developing an explicit decision-making process upfront for how you will make that decision will help alleviate conflict and gridlock when you actually need to decide.

Men are immortal till their work is done.

Providence seems to call me to the regions beyond

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.

Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.

Every decoding is another encoding.

Information is the religion of the modern world.

Morris read through the letter. Was it a shade too fulsome? No, that was another law of academic life: it is impossible to be excessive in flattery of one's peers.

I remember playing Coachella and seeing kids in the audience who weren't even born when we had our initial run of success. They were singing along to every word, which was an amazing thing to see.

Making a cartoon occupied usually about three full days, two spent in labour and one in removing the appearance of labour.

The mind needs stories as much as the body needs food. There are junk stories and more nourishing ones. The food we eat becomes our bodies, assimilated stories form our identities

Let's face it - with a few exceptions, nobody likes anybody.

Painting is a means of saying something about one's self in a beautiful or powerful way that people would like to see, but not hear.

Mystery is the number one conjurer of ideas.

The cinema is really built for the big screen and big sound, so that a person can go into another world and have an experience.

A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it.

Some things we forget. But many things we remember on the mental screen, which is the biggest screen of all.

The ideas dictate everything.

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words.

The ideas dictate everything, you have to be true to that or you're dead.

Death in my mind isn't a finality. There's a continuum: It's like at night, you go to sleep and in the daytime you wake up, or whenever you wake up, and it's a new day.

To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music.

Been trying the soapy water and instant coffee method. Works somewhat, but boy it tastes terrible. I don't know how you guys can stand it. I'm going back to milk and espresso for my cappas.

The great thing about being an astronaut is you kind of get to do a little bit of everything. I mean, we're going to ride a rocket uphill.

What is important is what inspires persistence and determination- in other words what you care about.

Silence is a form of communication. Speech divides us.