David Quotes

I love America. You always hurt the one you love.

The people who do better and better work are people who are never satisfied. Cezanne would say, 'I think I've accomplished something,' but then he would immediately add, 'But it's not enough.

Artists have made innovations in many areas... But whatever the nature of an artist's innovation, its importance ultimately depends on the extent of its influence on other artists.

I would say that Bob Dylan is as interested in money as any person I've known in my life. That's just the truth.

I'm not Sammy Glick. I've never killed anyone. I don't have to. I'm too talented.

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

Computers make people stupid.

We can't share the earth with pure evil anymore than we can share the earth with smallpox.

I think the print media have failed to make the most of their opportunity. They may all disappear because they are approaching things in the wrong way.

Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

We are full of dreams [...] We long for the unattainable. We believe in the nonsense of fables. There is no pure love; there is lust and there is need.

The night has a capacity for terror that the day can never match.

Love is both wondrous and yet full of peril. Love is a gateway through which hatred - disguised and unrecognized - can pass.

Miracles are merely events that happen just when they are needed.

What is life if a man cannot count on his friends when he has gone mad?

Life is nothing unless death has been faced down.

Plan for the worst, expect the best.

No matter how impossible this war, I shall fight to win. Whatever I have to do, I will do.

It’s easy to confuse motion with progress.

The jingling of a fat purse always commands the world.

True genius can be identified by the fact that its expression changes the world into something it has never been before.

Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed.

You will find it easiest to ride the avalanche in the direction it already travels.

I know he was definitely beaten by her. I saw it many times. But we had a different way of dealing with her. He'd let her have more and more booze until she passed out.

Myleene Klass is just the bomb. Her boyfriend is very lucky. She is a definite ten in every sense of the word.

And she could never give me an answer. And I realized that, you know, I had a problem on my hands.

And I told her point blank, you've got everything to live for. You've got such talent. You're back singing great, lose the weight. And she went and did it, and look at her now!

I was already set for life when I met her.

I'm really excited that I'm able to work again.

I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.

Personally, I'm not very keen on the visualization of absolutely everything.

Well, I am David Gilmour, the voice and guitar of Pink Floyd. I have been since I was 21.

The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.

I have no interest in going on a tour to make money without making new product, new art.

I like watching sports, you know, all sorts of stuff.

I think Atom Heart Mother was a good thing to have attempted, but I don't really think the attempt comes off that well.

I loved being back out on the pitch. Although I have not been in full training, I felt pretty good.

White Hart Lane was always a place where I felt I belonged.

I have been keeping myself fit. I am going on holiday next week in the Mediterranean so that I can really unwind after the football season and have a rest.

I have been inundated with offers to move into a career in television or film, and these, too, are tempting.

Fame for fame's sake is never a good road to go down.

Honestly, I grew up with Disney.

In episodic TV you have to keep things secret to keep the viewer in suspense.

The people that I associate myself with are people that are looking to make a good product because it's going to benefit them and it's going to help launch their careers.

We don't live in a capitalist totality. Capitalism couldn't survive as a totality anyway. We live in this complex system and we already live communism and anarchism in a million forms everyday.

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

I don't really know why I'm such an emotional person, that's just how I was born. It's a problem. It's not easy to be married to me.

In the creative act, you kind of reach down and look for things that will, when put together, create an emotional effect.

I find everything a struggle.