David Quotes

October's gold is dim — the forests rot, The weary rain falls ceaseless, while the day Is wrapped in damp.

We are one energy. Together we can make a change.

If you put a demo on the net and people say it was the finished version then they're going to say it sucks. I really hate that.

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

I often heard about his cases and I often sat in on his trials. In the late 1960s when I was growing up I wanted to be a crusader like him but I didn't want to wear a suit and commute.

We need above all to know about changes; no one wants or needs to be reminded 16 hours a day that his shoes are on.

That's what supporting the troops is really all about - making sure American grunts get the right stuff!

If there is anything that is important to America, it is that you are not a prisoner of the past.

These days there's all too much coverage of pesudo-events about extraordinarily inauthentic people doing inauthentic things.

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist.

There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

I actually think love changes everything. I think it's the only thing worth having.

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity. A strong and deep mind has two highest tides - when the moon is at the full, and when there is no moon.

The future of American film lies on television.

If you kill a character people feel sad. That's too easy.

Trying to be a socialist and a libertarian is obviously a very difficult balancing act, which nobody has pulled off too successfully in this century.

Purity is the feminine, truth the masculine of honor.

To those whose God is honor; only disgrace is a sin.

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their "critical thinking."

The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.

Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.

All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe.

Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth.

I have a Guinness Book of World Records entry as the most-watched person on television; now I have a new entry as the only man who has a crab named after him.

My one ambition was to go to Broadway, and I never gave up on that dream.

I did, I'd say, at least about 80 percent of the rest of the driving, and I had the time of my life.

My wife is the dancer, but I certainly know how to sing.

The intention manifests when the condition is appropriate.

All things radiate forth an intense aliveness.

God is both manifest as the Totality and Allness of Creation and simultaneously unmanifest as the Godhead, the Infinite Potentiality and source or 'void-ness' prior to form.

You should never write your own resume, personal ad, or obituary. In all three cases it is better to show your humility by letting someone else lie for you.

To move up to heavyweight to fight me is a jump too far, in my opinion.

A vampire is very easy; you just take a very good-looking actor, put some teeth on them, make them pale, and you're there.

When I was a kid I was really into horror films. I watched every single horror film that came out in the 80s.

When a horror movie is well done, I love it and I put it up in esteem with any other genre.

Number one rule in Hollywood is to maintain relationships with successful people, and you may find yourself involved in some very cool projects.

We tend to think of America's days of frontier exploration as being behind us, but that's because we tend not to think of the other 71% of our blue planet.

I want to be able to manipulate and control my career from the creative side.

The West believes the East, deep down, wants to be dominated, because a woman can’t think for herself

I've never quite understood the idea of a "season." Whenever an artistic director says to me, 'I have this slot,' I always start to feel we're parking cars or something.

All we try and do is make the best films we can. If you do that then hopefully the audiences will come, and they have. Everything else is gravy.

Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. We must know. We will know. Inscribed on his tomb in Gilttingen.