David Quotes

The way I think about things and experience things is not particularly linear, and it's not orderly, and it's not pyramidical, and there are a lot of loops.

The bright bite in Mary Lee Kortes' voice [has] the high-mountain sunshine of Dolly Parton, with a sweet-iron undercoat of Chrissie Hynde.

NASCAR racing provides more brand awareness and interest than any of the other major sports. The opportunities to build business-to-business relationships within the racing community are endless.

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.

More Irishmen died fighting for Britain in World War I than died fighting against her in all of Ireland's bids for independence combined.

Life, as the signs in the liquor stores say, is too short to drink bad wine. And summer is too short to read bad books.

A recession doubles the necessity to be really focused on three or four tactics that can prove a return on investment.

I intend to be me. Whatever that is.

To be able to live and work in the United States is a privilege.

Readable text and authority so that readers know how to spend - no matter how much information there is, I have the same number of minutes in my day, and I need to look to sources that I trust.

There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style.

Life is not so simple. There are many futures. The life of a single person is like a great tree: every branch, every twig, every leaf is a possible future.

Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it – you must climb down in the slime to do so.

When your life has been spent in one war after another for forty-five years, you have to be pretty handy to survive.

Liberty is only valued when it is threatened, therefore it is the threat that highlights the value. We should be grateful to the Nadir, since they heighten the value of our liberty.

I am not going to talk about patriotism, duty, liberty, and the defense of freedom because that's all dung to a soldier.

While men compete in war, there will be warriors. While there are warriors, there will be princes among warriors. Among the princes will be kings, and among the kings an emperor.

Playing for Manchester United is something that most people want and very few people do - but there is no harm in having a dream as long as you are realistic with it.

People in Italy seem to be very capable of singing along with 'Wish You Were Here' perfectly, yet it's hard to get someone in the street who speaks english.

It's really tough to get happy music going, you know?

I am working on current material, a new album, and that is all still my main motivation of going out and working. We haven't gotten rid of all the new stuff in favor of the old.

It's crazy that America gives such a paltry percentage of its GNP to the starving nations.

You learn these little tricks for stage fighting, which are really tiny and you wouldn't think of them, but it makes all the difference in the world. I love it!

I'm carrying a gun, and there's usually a corpse, so I think that may have something to do with it.

The reluctant hero is always fun to play.

One of my first gigs was as a guest star, and I was supposed to be a big imposing character.

I'm not doing a Mulder, there was no character reference-point. I think Mark Buchman shot it very David Fincher, but we did not know what the [X-Files] show was going to be.

There's a lot of great stuff on TV.

The trouble with people is they don't understand people.

Love after divorce is all about showing and sharing with my son what is good and right in life!

Although abortion has been legal nationwide for more than a quarter century, access remains difficult for many women.

A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent.

Fiction is socially meaningful.

I was born in Washington State and have lived here for 42 plus years.

Americans tended to think of war as something that had to be done from time to time, for a particular purpose or goal. They fought not for the sake of fighting but for the sake of winning.

Children always turn to the light.

In order to achieve something great, you'll have to sacrifice something great.

If you're not in the game, you can't hit a home run.

I think people know that I've got a good heart.

He could've had Jesus, Buddha, he could have had every God in his corner, it wouldn't have helped him against me.

Fortunately, for me, my main asset is speed. Plain and simple.

I'm too fast, too sexy and too talented to be blown away by a large, slow robot from the Ukraine.

In between training sessions, I'll often watch DVDs of King Kong, Godzilla or Frankenstein, just to keep my mind on the task in hand and remind myself of the magnitude of the challenge.

I threw about 16 punches in 3 seconds. It was some Bruce Lee speed!

Knowing what thought process goes into constructing a line helps an actor know how to deliver that line because you understand the intention behind the writing.

Scientists explore the physical world for REPRODUCIBLE PATTERNS, which they represent by MODELS and organize into THEORIES according to LAWS.

There is absolutely no scientific basis or evidence for 'intelligent design.' It is simply a religious assertion, and it has no place in a science course.

If there's one thing I can say about my garden, it can always surprise me.

Avarice, or the desire of gain, is a universal passion which operates at all times, at all places, and upon all persons.

There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.