David Quotes

It's important to listen to lots of different genres because you never know when something will get born out of it.

True happiness is not out there. True happiness lies within.

Dark things have always existed but they used to be in a proper balance with good when life was slower.

With each experience of the unbounded ocean of consciousness, you infuse it into your life and therefore expand whatever consciousness you had to begin with.

Listening is the essence of anything.

The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.

It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.

For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.

Lasse [Hallström] is really good at emotionally engaging an audience without hitting them over the face with it.

The way I would measure leadership is this: of the people that are working with me, how many wake up in the morning thinking that the company is theirs?

For some time now, I have been encouraging people to ask themselves why things look the way they do.

We’re such contrary creatures

President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'

I love Superman. I'm a big fan of anyone who can make his living in his underwear.

Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.

Everyone needs money. That's why they call it money

You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.

It is the objective of the protagonist that keeps us in our seats.

I don't have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they're useless, because I've had experience with drama schools, and have found them to be useless.

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.

A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team.

If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the story (which is to say, to the audience).

I want to write for history, not for the moment.

Gratitude is not a normal feature of political life.

But why must choices always lie along a linear spectrum with two poles instead of say among a sphere of possibilities

Yes here's to the founding fathers - slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes.

Savor the mystery, Stephen, we don't get enough of them.

Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been.

A handful of sand is an anthology of the universe.

The past after all is only another name for someone else's present.

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

To shut yourself from history is to shut yourself off from say music or painting or the theatre, literature for the rest of your life. It would be to cheat yourself of the pleasures of life.

The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely.

Everything about my politics has been about the future.

I think cycling has always had a tradition of being a bit dapper, especially back in the day.

Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.

Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence.

True knowledge without xperience is food without sustenance

Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.

People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.

The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.

I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

Don't remember summer even saying goodbye.

Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.

I can't bear living in this huge beautiful world and not try to imitate it as best I can.

Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.