David Quotes

I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.

The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.

They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.

It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.

You don't know me. You know one me, just like I know one you. And you can't know every me, and I can't know every you.

Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.

You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.

I want that. I want that awful intense and serious unhappiness, cos then I might feel better, and then I might be happy.

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.

If you show someone something you've written, you give them a sharpened stake, lie down in your coffin, and say, ‘When you’re ready’.

I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.

People struggling with life in a fallen world often want explanations when what they really need is imagination.

Art is what separates us from the animals.

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you recognize that the biggest problems you face in life exist inside of you, not outside of you.

It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.

I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.

Next to the bestowal of life itself, the right to direct that life is God's greatest gift to man.

If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which decisions you're actually going to make, and then you have to let the rest of them go.

It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

And the person who says that the only way to please them is to restrict options for others is, if you ask me, the one who deserves it least. And that’s my opinion, expressed as politely as possible.

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.

this blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

You're right on the money with that. We're all like detectives in life. There's something at the end of the trail that we're all looking for.

I can't wait for my little sisters to start dating, because it will really be fun to pick on their boyfriends.

I find America falling in love with a TV show flattering and interesting, but at the same time a little sad.

Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.

I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home.

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority.

Leaders grasp nettles.

Change comes with both fear and some pain. Those two ingredients create mistrust, misunderstanding and misinformation. Such is the process of democracy.

I bless God for this retirement: I never was more thankful for any thing than I have been of late for the necessity I am under of self-denial in many respects.

Anyone who believes you can't change history has never tried to write his memoirs.

I suppose I'm trying to build an architecture that's as timeless as possible, although we're all creatures of our age.

I have a musical called Goodbye and Good Luck, based on a Grace Paley short story. I also have King Island Christmas, and there are 20 different productions of it this year.

I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.

My mother taught me to love my work. I learned everything about business from her.

Life is too short to waste. Dreams are fulfilled only through action, not through endless planning to take action.

I like rust on a nail, fog on a mountain. Clouds hide stars, rooms have doors, eyes close, and the same words that began love end it with changed emphasis.

If flowers want to grow right out of the concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down to smell them.

So reports of my madness, as they say, were greatly exaggerated. Not that I give a bugger either way.

I love sport as long as its kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life.

Terms like 'good' and 'bad' are extremely simplistic in what is a far more complex situation.

Why did God invent economists? To make weathermen feel good about themselves.

Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among philosophers.

If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions

Art may make a suite of clothes, but nature must produce a man.