David Quotes

I like good food and decent wine as much as Roy Jenkins does, but I keep quiet about it.

Grateful living makes life meaningful and full of joy.

"The Holy Spirit . . . wants to flow through us and realize all these wonderful possibilities in the world - if we only open ourselves and allow it to happen."

At any moment the fully present mind can shatter time and burst into Now.

The experience of love and the experience of death destroy the illusion of our self-sufficiency. The two are closely connected, and to become fully human we must experience both of them.

In moments of surprise we catch at least a glimpse of the joy to which gratefulness opens the door.

If you're really mind-full, and if you underline that aspect of fullness, wholeness, or wholeheartedness, it reveals the gift character of everything.

The goal is partly the enjoyment; it doesn't come later, but within the very process of the struggle.

It's not the NBA Finals, it's not even a regular-season game. It's the All-Star game, it's a celebration. A celebration of talent, speed, grace. Let's put it on display and have some fun.

Kemp-Roth was always a Trojan horse to bring down the top rate.

So much money and energy is expended making a film that I think it should be used for positive ends.

If it's a role like this one, an actual live person, a legend, there's lots of material laid out.

I don't really want people to see me. I'm not into stardom.

I love music, especially classical like Verdi; it's a great way to relax.

We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.

Pearl Harbor was the defining event in my life. It shaped who I am, and all of my hang-ups and my drives, I think, stem from that.

Fukushima is the most terrifying situation I can imagine.

We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet’s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we willing to gamble?

More than a billion people lack adequate access to clean water.

There are some things in the world we can't change.

Feeding our energy appetite is top of mind for many people these days.

My favorite thing is still journalism. I'm almost 50. This has been my life ever since I was in college.

Most magazines have become wallpaper, they're all the same, all the same celebrities. It's really an abysmal time in American journalism right now. But occasionally one story or two will pop out.

When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you.

After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.

Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.

They may be a little more high brow than we are.

The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.

I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?

Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same.

I'd been a stepparent for about two years with a woman who had a child, and I came to realize I adored children and was good with them. So I was very happy when Anna got pregnant.

It wasnt the greatest script in the world, but not many people can say theyve played a wicked king in a swashbuckling Arthurian special-effects monster movie.

I don't think Alfonso was a big expert on Potter either. He was feeling his way through it more than I was.

Lisp doesn't look any deader than usual to me.

We need to start prioritizing people, not polar bears.

If you start getting instability in large powers with nuclear weapons, that's not a good day.

Like a fly bouncing uselessly off a closed window, I'm caught at a moment when the effort of finding new ways to perceive the world feels just out of reach for me.

Sometimes I'd like everybody who is stuck, or lost, or vacant to stay that way and keep silent for as long as it takes, but that's the critic in me talking.

Contrails are denser and block sunlight much more than natural cirrus clouds.

In the future there cannot be room for ambiguity. They have to make their position absolutely clear before they can expect anyone to respond to it.

Creativity may well be the last legal unfair competitive advantage we can take to run over the competition.

If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.

The United Nations has no business in our elections.

History is not just about the past. It also reveals the present.

I was hired to do this one great script called 'Cap'n Ricky' and that project is up in the air at the moment.

Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind.

I just want to be happy, have kids, enjoy my life, help others and create some good work.

I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.

All human life can be found in an airport.