David Quotes

When writing dialogue, I hear it in both Russian and English, and try to find a language that combines the two.

Why are some people highly principled and willing to do anything for their principles, while most of us are not? And I am willing to not only ask, but also answer the question.

It was an honor to coach him. He should be proud of what he did this year.

I regret the time and resources needed to undertake this but... it is right to lay this accusation to rest.

Shooting a television show is hard enough, and it takes a lot of time away from your personal life and your family life.

I had my shortcomings - crazy hair, braces, bad skin and all that stuff. I went through it all.

It would be positively boring if minds were in tune.

Never bored, so I'll never get old

Of course, we found out later Syd Barrett had mental problems. But there was something so otherworldly about him. He was hovering, like, six inches above the ground.

I would like to believe that people knew what they were fighting for and why they wanted a revolution, and exactly what it was within that they didn't like.

I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.

People are always throwing things at me that I've said and I say that I didn't mean anything.

If we could be heroes, if just for one day.

When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.

Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.

I'm rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work it's no longer his.

I'm not actually a very keen performer. I like putting shows together. I like putting events together.

I don't mind trying it out and making sure something seems to work well.

I don't profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

I think everything that I learned about stagecraft and carrying through - creating a through point for a theatrical device.

Songwriting as an art is a bit archaic now. Just writing a song is not good enough.

She's a total bam bam.

I guess, people like myself and Roxy Music that had a different agenda about taking up music.

I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

Is it Nice in your snowstorm- freezing your brain? Do you think that your face looks the same?

Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.

As to my success here I cannot say much as yet: the Indians seem generally kind, and well-disposed towards me, and are mostly very attentive to my instructions, and seem willing to be taught further.

It is remarkable that God began this work among the Indians at a time when I had the least hope, and to my apprehension the least rational prospect of success.

Science ever has been, and ever must be, the safeguard of religion.

A mere inference or theory must give way to a truth revealed; but a scientific truth must be maintained, however contradictory it may appear to the most cherished doctrines of religion.

Truths physical have an origin as divine as truths religious.

Beware of assumptions that seem "obvious" in one decade. They may become quaint in the next.

A neurosis defends itself by coming up with rationalizations to explain away bizarre behavior.

Two passed pawns advancing on the enemy pieces have brought me more than a dozen points in tournaments.

Courage is the most important virtue because it is the hardest.

Live life as a series of revelations

I expect [Donald] Trump to do what he's done very successfully, which is, whether you like him or not, he will be the dominant player .

You have got to be loyal to people beneath you.

People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.

I wouldn't say philosophy and theology are dead. Brain science doesn't invent new philosophies but it helps remind us which of our existing philosophies are more true.

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

Plunder is morally wrong. It ruins your credibility.

It's hard to imagine a party that is not corrupted by hatred.

We are a democratic, egalitarian people who spend our days desperately trying to climb over each other.

The rich don't exploit the poor, they just out-compete them.

The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.

People want a reality that tells them they're right all of the time.

People generally overestimate how distinct their lives are, so the commonalities seemed to them like a series of miracles.

The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born.

I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity?