David Quotes

I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

Interestingly, simple and ordinary experiences often provide the most important learning opportunities we ever have.

Indeed, scientific truth by consensus has had a uniformly bad history.

Natural history is not about producing fables.

The advertisers who believe in the selling power of jingles have never had to sell anything.

In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.

Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I've really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those.

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel like Ramadan?

Into the soul of every student I would have instilled the patriotic fervor of Patrick Henry.

Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.

What I didn't know was I was deeply attracted to the big space.

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.

We should learn to live and love our neighbors as ourselves for the sake of peace and progress.

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft.

By definition, poetry works with qualities and dynamics that mainstream society is reluctant to face head-on. It's an interesting phenomenon that by necessity, poetry is just below the radar.

I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.

There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still.

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

In the environmental movement, every time you lose a battle it's for good, but our victories always seem to be temporary and we keep fighting them over and over again.

Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them.

The work is challenging, interesting and an important part of our legal system.

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

The air is the most mysterious, the most exciting, the most challenging of all the elements. We leave the planet, we leave the sea, we leave the earth. The air is no longer of this world .

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

By listening, marketing will re-learn how to talk.

Sometimes we overcomplicate living the gospel. Consistency in acting in accordance with the Lord’s will is key.

You and I, today and always, are to bear witness of Jesus Christ and declare the message of the Restoration. ... Missionary work is a manifestation of our spiritual identity and heritage.

As we gain experience with the Holy Ghost, we learn that the intensity with which we feel the Spirit's influence is not always the same.

An answer we discover or obtain through the exercise of faith is typically retained for a lifetime. The most important learnings of life are caught-not taught.

Disciples who are steadfast and immovable do not become fanatics or extremists, are not overzealous, and are not preoccupied with misguided gospel hobbies.

When you are deeply contemplative, you listen more carefully and understand things which cannot be articulated.

Every hardship you endure and every failure you withstand could very well be the stepping stone to success and the realization of your God-given dream.

Read Jerrod Edson. He is one of our best young writers.

Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them.

I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged just so.

I had done the sitcom thing to lesser and lesser degrees of success.

My father contracted polio on a troop train in Korea.

It's a lot of work living the life that you want to live, but that's what I'm doing.

In the spirit of Vivian Maier, who worked unaided by any publication or commercial shooting, I set up the Emerging Photographer Fund

If you’re at zero backlog, it’s a whole lot easier to change priorities.

We have to allow ourselves to see what there is to see, and we have to imagine.

This is our world. Aye, there's more than enough of darkness in it. But over everything there's all this joy, Kit. There's all this lovely, lovely light.

A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

I'm aware of my audience in a way, and I do try to engage with them while I'm trying to go about my business of thinking. I believe they help me by providing a focus.