David Quotes

I am not a person of the left. But one of the things, the central idea of democracy is that you have a bigger investment in the system as a whole than you do in any particular outcome.

I don't think that disasters have to be spectacular. They can be a slow corrosion.

I am really and truly frightened by the collapse of support for the Republican Party by the young and the educated.

A ground plan is important in terms of its rigor. If your plan is soggy and weak, your production will be soggy and weak.

It wouldn't be a Dragon Age game without ugly mage hats.

Important artists are innovators whose work changes the practices of their successors.

I look to challenge myself with a character that's not like myself or anything I've done before, but I certainly don't reject roles based on how often I've done them.

Bad guys have more fun.

Relying on luck, however, does not constitute a policy.

It may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage.

I hate my smile - I think I look like an absolute wally when I smile, I really do.

As a model you have to convey something with one look - and actors will have a scene and they can sort of do it, but models have to convey what photographers want. It's a bit of an art.

I always say that you know when an Italian plane has landed at an airport because the men look uber-stylish, they’ve got scarves on and suits.

One of the key pieces is a great pair of shoes. Women say they always look at a man’s shoes, which is really strange! But it can ruin an outfit. Accessories are hugely important.

I always saw what the girls were doing, the supermodels, and they were my inspiration.

It's easy in music to tell what's good. It's hard to tell what's bad.

I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a show business.

Everybody in politics lies.

I think the universities as we know them will be dead in a future years. I'd like to see them replaced by something better, instead of something worse, and it's not clear which way it will go.

Abolishing the book is like abolishing the symphony, or sonata form, or the sonnet, or the wall painting.

At the same time, on the networks, there are thousands of groups that are building lifestreams, or lifestreaming for themselves in their own way. We'd love to see this activity.

There are certain subjects which seem to me can be taught very effectively online, although they aren't.

Surprise is the beginning of wisdom.

The book is a unit and is such a brilliant ergonomic unit.

The best computer scientists are...technologists who crave beauty.

I would love to see writing taught online because at university like Yale, there are not enough teachers who are able to teach writing well, or in some cases, there are none.

We still have books because they are so brilliantly suited to the way human beings absorb information and at their best, they are among the most beautiful things we have.

The first step is always to succeed in becoming surprised - to notice that there is something funny going on.

A problem shared is a problem doubled.

A man should not risk his life for beauty alone, Kiall, for that fades. You might as well risk it for a rose. Think on it.

I am a stranger. You do not need to lie to me or pretend. Only with friends do you need masks.

Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find.

What is your name?" Why?" So I can mark your grave.

We like to think of life as a constant ... Yet it can be ended in a heartbeat.

The baresark loses all fear; his method is all-out attack, and invariably he takes his opponent with him even if he falls.

I think that for the coward every day carries a kind of death.

Life is sad enough, Magir. Laughter is a thing to be treasured.

But men don't come in just two groups, one of gold and the other of lead. They are a mix of both." "And what about women?" "Pure gold, my girl," Rayvan answered with a chuckle.

No one can take away the freedom of a man's soul.

Bow to nothing, son. I make mistakes as well as any man. If you think me wrong, be so good as to damn well say so.

Your men are brave men, And you have won. I can live with that, Earl of Bronze a poor man would I be if I could not.

One hundred only, Lord Earl. But judge us not by our number. Rather, watch the numbers of dead we leave behind.

The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

In any broth, the scum always rises to the top.

All legends have a base in fact.

A man cannot spend his life worrying about the unexpected.

The very odd thing about sagas ... is that they very rarely mention dry mouths and full bladders.

All things are possible, ... Except the passing of regret.

love is in the eyes, and one woman knows when another woman is in love.

You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right.