David Quotes

There are moments when you get out of your own head and you exist in the moment, and that can be good acting.

You do hear some strange rumours floating around. One I've heard is that I'm allergic to metal.

Our human nature is exactly the same as it was 500 years ago, let alone five years ago.

The union of the states is indissoluble; the country is undivided and indivisible forever.

To be afraid is the miserable condition of a coward. To do wrong, or omit to do right from fear, is to superadd delinquency to cowardice.

Government is the greatest combination for forces known to human society. It can command more men and raise more money than any and all other agencies combined.

The enjoyment that comes from our acts of kindness give us a glimpse of the world that might be, hopefully our future world. Good natured, friendly, human.

All human beings hunger for appreciation.

For any leftover inventory, publishers must have a program to maximize the sale of a book.

To praise is an investment in happiness.

I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round.

You do what you need to if you're serious about playing great golf.

It's easy at times to win golf tournaments and shoot 59, and sometimes it's hard to post an 85.

When I'm swinging well, nobody hits the golf ball any better than I do.

I've just been working hard, trying to get some good stuff to come out.

I didn't do anything spectacular when I won the Open in 2001. I hit the ball good, not great. I putted good, not great, but I think I missed maybe two putts inside eight feet all week.

You've got to make an effort on your own. Some people don't even try.

I think about what I say. I don't give stock answers. I'm not trying to cultivate an image with the public, like several of the top players do.

At the U.S. Open, you're going to make bogeys.

I was in the middle of the golf tournament trying to make birdies and I was just having a blast. So that probably qualifies as having a greater appreciation.

The best way to explain it is that I'm not yearning anymore, on or off the course. I appreciate what I have. I feel like I'm blessed.

I went to Q-school knowing that I could play well and get through.

I'm content. I want to have better success in the tournaments than I've had, but I know I'm playing well, so I'm happy with that.

I've seen the bottom and I know the difference between good golf and bad golf.

But just like I've always said when people complain about tee times, 'I just want a tee time. Just give me one so I can play.

I know the other side. I know what awful golf is.

I may not look it when I'm playing, but I think I'm a fun guy to hang with when I'm relaxing.

I slowly continued to compensate for the physical problems I was having and ended up completely destroying my swing, my set-up, my posture. Everything was gone.

And if people do like me, I think it's because I'm a stand-up guy.

The way I grew up playing, and the way most Americans have grown up, is that you hit the ball up in the air and then it stops where it lands.

China has not lived up to any other trade agreements over the last decade. They don't have any compliance, they don't have any enforcement.

Between nature and music there seems to be an elective affinity: they fit together, and when they do experiences of an ineffable kind are generated.

To describe this world is not to describe reality 'in itself', as it is independently of how we regard and describe it.

What impressed me about Plato and Sartre was their conviction that we should live our lives in the light of big truths about reality and human existence.

In the final analysis, all explanations of meaning, various as they are, serve to indicate how something is 'appropriate' in and to our practices, our lives in effect.

The garden is as good a symbol as you can find of a dialectic between spheres of experience - of culture and nature - that presuppose one another.

The focus of environmental ethics should indeed be on the virtues and how these inform our relationship to natural environments.

In all great civilizations, garden discourses have belonged to larger discourses about beauty, the good life, the relation of humankind to nature, and so on.

When you grow up and something touches you emotionally, it lives on forever.

The English are probably the most tolerant, least religious people on earth.

I see in [George H. W.] Bush a striving to be Reagan-like in the sense of having a big vision, and eschewing small details.

Today, we've got what seems to me to be binary-choice politics: black and white, ones and zeros, either you are with me or against me. How did we get here?

I think his [Reagan's] policy toward the Soviet Union was more risky than most people realize, and it was risky because of the paranoia and fear among the isolated old guard in Moscow.

He [Reagan] was who he was, and it was not complicated. You didn't get a different person in an interview.

I think words were Reagan's greatest weapon - and more powerful than the Strategic Defense Initiative, which did not come to fruition in his lifetime.

You learn more when things go wrong.

When you create a show, and create characters, these people are like children to you.

I never thought of myself as a writer.

For me, I'm happy to succeed on any network.

I think the law changes, which is a nice luxury.