David Quotes
All victims have experienced a loss-a thwarted desire or aspiration-even if they're not aware of it.
This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.
We have got to extend the hand of friendship, we have got to take the peacelines down brick by brick
The only people who have anything to fear from free software are those whose products are worth even less.
The older, thinner, and less productive grass lands, however, frequently can be made to produce much larger yields of feed in corn than if left, as they are, in unproductive grass.
In the southern half of the country perhaps no crop has larger possibilities for quick increase of production of food for both men and animals than the sweet potato.
What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days.
The high food value of field beans and the shortage of supply due to the light yields of 1915 and 1916 render them of great importance in the regions to which they are adapted.
The soy-bean, in particular, has proved sufficiently resistant to cold in spring and to adverse weather during summer to warrant heavy planting, especially throughout the South.
The real riches of yoga cannot be seen; they are felt and experienced from the inside out.
We're not in this for the fast money. Really, what we want is to be part of this industry.
I don't have the Tom Hanks fans. When you make the kind of movies I make, you get weird letters from people.
Perfume is pretty good because nobody has to hold the product by their face or use it.
Oh, yeah, I love DVD's. I don't have what you'd call an extensive collection, maybe a couple of hundred or so. But I have something on almost all the time.
All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.
I founded Friends of the Earth to make the Sierra Club look reasonable. Then I founded the Earth Island Institute to make Friends of the Earth seem reasonable.
An Ice Age is coming and I welcome it as much-needed changing. I see no solution to our ruination of earth except for a drastic reduction of the human population.
There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.
Perhaps this is what it means to go mad: to be emptied and to be aware of the emptiness.
People, unless they're paying attention, tend to confuse fanciness with intelligence or authority.
Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?
Fiction, poetry, music...these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.
It seems important to find ways of reminding ourselves that most "familiarity" is meditated and delusive.
The entire ball game, in terms of both the exam and life, was what you gave attention to vs. what you willed yourself to not.
I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.
I felt, as I became a later and later bloomer, alienated not just from my own recalcitrant glabrous little body but in a way from the whole elemental exterior I'd come to see as my co-conspirator.
The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?
I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.
I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.
The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.
To be willing to sort of die in order to move the reader, somehow. Even now I'm scared about how sappy this'll look in print, saying this.
This is so American, man: either make something your God and cosmos and then worship it, or else kill it.
You can be in London at 10 o'clock and in New York at 10 o'clock. I have never found another way of being in two places at once.
We all have more at stake in the rules of the game than we do in the outcomes of the game. When that changes, that's when you begin to lose democracy.
There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.
I accept the responsibility but not the blame. Let me explain the difference. Those who are to blame lose their jobs. Those who are responsible do not.