David Quotes

Last year when my grandma fell and broke her hip she couldn't paint her toenails anymore. So my grandpa started doing it for her, even after he fell and broke his hip, too. For me, that's love.

I know someone loves me from how they say my name. Like with my mom and dad, when they say "Benjamin" it's like my name is safe in their mouth.

Isn't it interesting what a stranger can offer? A little wisdom, a little mercy, a little love.

Wise are you, indeed... to know what is not possible.

It's one of the advantages of being a woman. I get to do all sorts of unfair things, and you have to accept them because you're too polite not to. --Polgara

Don't wrench your shoulder out of its socket trying to pat yourself on the back," Beldin said sourly.

The dullest man in the world is charming beyond belief when he's pouring gold coins from one hand to the other.

All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man’s heart out with a shrug, did you know that?

Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous." "Who made up that rule?" "It's a known fact.

Vanity's ridiculous, but we all fall prey to it from time to time.

Impatience is a poor substitute for a well-considered plan.

Misty Sendaria," Silk said ironically. "Sometimes I'm amazed that the entire kingdom doesn't rust shut.

If you'd just try, I'm sure you'd be able to fly.

Women are almost always angry with men for one reason or another. It's one of things you'll have to get used to, as you get older.

Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.

Whatever happened to him?" Silk asked. "He went swimming in the Nedrane." "I didn't know that Thulls swam all that well." "They don't–particularly not with large rocks tied to their feet.

Isn't it odd how the little things can change a man's entire life?

I want a sword not a knitting needle -Kalen

Someday you'll have to show me how you did that," Asharak was saying. "I found the experience interesting. My horse had hysterics, however." "My apologies to your horse.

It's the nature of man to ask questions. --Belgarath

Listen to the way people talk. If your characters sound real the rest is easy.

...I made some more threats. I've got this big knife back here." He poked his thumb over his shoulder. "It attracts a lot of attention sometimes.

I'm hungry, Garion, and I don't think well when I'm hungry." "That might explain a lot," Beldin noted blandly. "We should have fed you more often when you were younger."

Despite some standout events, 2012 was demoralizing. The Met felt adrift, and New York City Opera couldn't claw its way back to artistic health.

Russell Crowe is normally an actor who disappears so far into his characters you'd swear his DNA has been altered.

It's easy to say "This year in art sucked." After all, about 85 percent of all shows of contemporary art are bad. But 85 percent of all art made in the Renaissance was bad.

Some reviewed 'The Master' on their knees, and while I respected its distinctive discordancy - can a movie be at once feverish and glacial? - I was unmoved.

The movie's only serious criticism is reserved for Baker's television network, which doesn't think Americans care about Afghanistan - kind of hypocritical given this film's lack of substance.

I have a female colleague who gets annoyed that Tina Fey seems to go out of her way in her movies to deride her looks, as if she weren't such an attractive woman.

Still, you can't complain about the number of movies being made. Never have the means of making movies been so accessible to so many. The problem is getting bodies into seats.

Every year, I'm depressed that so few of the documentaries I've loved break through.

The economic and technological changes are real, but I just can't bring myself to wax apocalyptic about the future of books.

I fell in love with Twitter. Fathers, lock up your deadlines.

I'd put the most money on Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson - and not just because we'll probably still be waiting for the final volume in 2017.

The laugh-count is right up there with being diagnosed with late-stage cancer.

You can't just carry everyone else's hopes and fears around in your backpack and expect to stand up straight.

You get what you're good enough to take.

This is what analysts have calculated. It's a number that's out there and we're not arguing with it.

PMP was in an almost diametrically opposite situation to Fairfax.

Patriotism is the opposite of selfish individualism.

a society driven mainly by selfish individualism has all the potential for sustainability of a collection of angry scorpions in a bottle.

In terms of how I understand the online world, it doesn't just work in the old-fashioned way. You're not going to see billboards and a bunch of commercials. It's all viral.

I do think you learn things about genre storytelling, but you also have to be careful not to learn too much.

Ive got a fantasy-baseball team with my brother. But I have to admit, he does all the work.

Music is a creative endeavor so I feel the business around it should be creative, too. One size doesn't have to fit all.

Religion is not so bad, unless you believe it.

In the absence of evidence, the scientist says, 'I don't know,' but the religionist says, 'I believe.'

One does not have to prove a negative. One should assume a negative.

We lost our way, our society lost our way.

I've been lucky and have played some interesting characters - I'd quite like to play Sweeny Todd.