David Quotes

A vital step for the technology sector is to signpost legitimate search options far more clearly and to delete links to sites that promote illegally sourced content.

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.

Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.

When people say, 'You're not being realistic,' they're just trying to tag some thoughts that they can't otherwise handle.

It's like turning the space program over to the Long Island Railroad.

I sort of kept my hand in writing and went to work for the Sierra Club in '52, walked the plank there in '69, founded Friends of the Earth and the League of Conservation Voters after that.

I think my biggest break though came probably on Patriot Games because it was the biggest, longest second unit up to that point. It was like five months of shooting and a huge crew.

Youth is not wasted on the young, it is perpetrated on the young.

Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving.

I am neither spontaneous nor ready for anything.

We should put pressure on power and write the truth and write relentlessly and fearlessly. That's the job.

I would also like to see Russia not interfere in our elections.

Profits might also increase, because improvements might take place in agriculture, or in the implements of husbandry, which would augment the produce with the same cost of production.

Relationships are not about how two people can survive each other but about how the whole world becomes more capable of love, with all its dim anguish and glowing rapture.

Those who are excluded from meaningful work are, by an large, excluded from meaningful play.

Why, I ask, isn't it possible that advertising as a whole is a fantastic fraud, presenting an image of America taken seriously by no one, least of all by the advertising men who create it?

The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries.

I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.

The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work

Mother's interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

Briefs need limitations and invitations

Music is a treasure and a love and a delight. It clears people's souls and lifts them high.

I knew I always wanted to sing.

Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.

Let us to the Press Devoted Be, Its Light will Shine and Speak Us Free.

A man is sometimes lost in a dust of his own raising.

I did three or four weeks of work on 'Godzilla' it wasn't a page-one rewrite or anything like that. The term is 'script doctoring,' is what I did on it.

I tend to play in a way that feels natural to me. To me that's authentic for myself. I play by where I'm led by some sense of where I feel I'm supposed to be.

Let us not paralyze our capacity for good by brooding of man's capacity for evil.

We believe that more than 4 percent of the children in this country suffer ADHD... We want to know how to better identify and refer children for treatment.

I was a geek in high school.

Try out your ideas by visualizing them in action.

As a child I assumed that when I reached adulthood, I would have grown-up thoughts.

We can't profess love without talking through hand puppets.

I can't seem to fathom that the things important to me are not important to other people as well, and so I come off sounding like a missionary, someone whose job it is to convert rather than listen.

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.

I won't put in a load of laundry, because the machine is too loud and would drown out other, more significant noises - namely, the shuffling footsteps of the living dead.

The only real advice you can give anyone is to keep writing.

As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.

Weird doors open. People fall into things.

I've often lost faith in myself, I've never lost it in my family.

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.

But I'm a humorist. I'm not a reporter, I never pretended to be a reporter.

I go to the movies at least five times a week, and after a while everything becomes a blur to me.

The message was that if something is free, you should only take the best. If, on the other hand, you're forced to pay, it's best to lower the bar and not be so choosy.

Along with the joy of parenthood, with every child comes a piercing vulnerability. It is at once sublime and terrifying

Everything I write, I believe instinctively, is to some extent collage. Meaning, ultimately, is a matter of adjacent data.

I don’t know what’s the matter with me, why I’m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.