David Quotes

Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.

Stories are different every time you tell them - they allow so many possible narratives.

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

My mother turned into a professional widow. She couldnt understand why I wanted to be an engineer; she thought I should be a chicken farmer.

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

My way of thinking is very particular and concrete. It doesn't follow a continuous path.

It's hard being a hostage in somebody else's mouth - or a character in somebody else's novel.

I am quite unsatisfied by the distinctions between the oral and literate.

Things never happen exactly how you think they will.

If you close your eyes to see the view, you miss everything surrounding you

When they're people who are your fans, you know, 'cause they really feel what you're singing, that's my favorite

I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.

Yeah, I definitely wanted to do a kids' movie because I have a kid. I want to do things that my daughter can see soon - when she is old enough to know what a movie is.

I like to mumble when I act, 'cause I think it's more realistic. For some reason, the impediment has given me the accent of a Mexican gangster.

Get up there, where 'there' is . . . get up in front and . . . preach your guts out!

The nature of human beings is that they'd far rather face the disaster that is happening tonight than the one that is happening tomorrow.

We can now manipulate images to such an extrodinary extent that there's no lie you cannot tell.

It never really occurred to me to believe in God.

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

That people will object very much to seeing a predator killing its prey, and yet, in the news, will accept showing shots of people shooting one another.

All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.

Crying wolf is a real danger.

One in eight plant species face extinction.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

When I was a boy in the 1930s, the carbon dioxide level was still below 300 parts per million. This year, it reached 382, the highest figure for hundreds of thousands of years.

It is curiosity, quite right-a divine curiosity. A characteristic of the gods is curiosity.

It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole in that spectrum, then the BBC would fill it.

We don't want to go back to the same policies and practicies that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led to this catastrophe. We keep moving forward.

I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you know what, we got to get off the bus here, this is not headed in the right direction.

I think President Obama is a committed, practicing nonideologue. He's consumed by neither tactics nor ideology. He is more concerned about outcomes than he is about process and categorizations

Well, as far as film, either you're making a film or you're making videos. Digital capture is always trying to emulate the range and look of film. I believe personally that film has more.

God accomplishes His purposes heart to heart.

If we seek first the Kingdom of God and live as we should, all the rest of life seems to fall into place and wonderful things happen.

It is the love that we give and the service we render that really is the great payoff.

Those who labor unselfishly in behalf of others, with no thought of remuneration, will be physically and spiritually refreshed and renewed.

This market right now is moving on nothing more than emotions. Guess what? It almost always moves on emotions.

The more I study the wealthy.. in an effort to learn how to help more people around the world become one of them.. I'm stunned by how many people are actually not rich.

Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.

I always go for simplicity.

I don't feel very optimistic in London.

I'm not really one for regrets.

When I die I want to go to Vogue.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.

I was dyslexic, so I was put in the silly class at school.

The modern geography of the brain has a deliciously antiquated feel to it - rather like a medieval map with the known world encircled by terra incognito where monsters roam.

The human spirit was the strongest medicine on earth. And sometimes all it needed was a little encouragement to pull off a miracle.

Passion is a rare commodity. When you find it, treasure it and never give it up!

Time doesn't really heal, it just makes you not to give a crap

Why waste time trying to discover the truth, when you can so easily create it?