David Quotes

The Canadian middle class is under less pressure than any other middle class in any developed country on the planet. So they feel good. They feel optimistic. They feel secure.

Republicans have been fleeced and exploited and lied to by a conservative entertainment complex.

Vote Labor and you build castles in the air. Vote Conservative and you can live in them.

A Peace to End All Peace.

Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism.

He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a Glock 9mm. to the feelings' temple like a terrorist with a hostage, daring you to shoot.

The fun of reading as "an exchange between consciousnesses, a way for human beings to talk to each other about stuff we can't normally talk about."

Writing fiction takes me out of time. I sit down and the clock will not exist for me for a few hours. That’s probably as close to immortal as we’ll ever get.

Certain sincerely devout and spiritually advanced people believe that the God of their understanding helps them find parking places and gives them advice on Mass. Lottery numbers.

I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.

God seems to have a kind of laid-back management style I’m not crazy about.

... do something. Pay your rent for the privilege of living on this beautiful, blue-green, living Earth.

We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.

There is no more honorable thing any of us can do with our lives than to work to put part of the world off-limits to the activities of human beings.

Even the most mundane objects are things of wonder, if we stop to look at them, and the fact that we are alive is the biggest wonder of all.

Quantum theory was split up into dialects. Different people describe the same experiences in remarkably different languages. This is confusing even to physicists.

I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.

You know, I don't think I've ever listened to someone's commentary. Ever.

Movies aren't finished, they're abandoned. And you have to make your peace with that.

I adore dogs to the extent I think they are much more important than human beings. I like your dog much more than I like you.

Admiral Farragaut upon entering Mobile Bay Damn the torpedos. FULL SPEED AHEAD!

The best defense is a well-directed fire from your own guns.

The mangosteen, queen of the tropical fruit.

For keenest enjoyment, I visit when the dew is on them, or in cloudy weather, or when the rain is falling: and I must be alone or with someone who cares for them as I do.

I've always viewed high-frequency trading as a tax on the rest of us.

That which works is authentic. It's a practical truth. What really matters is that we find benefit, regardless of whether it's an ancient traditional approach or some new version, popular or obscure.

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.

Who owns a man, Durnik?” the blond young man asked sadly. “The one who rules him, or the one who pays him?

You must find the passion, an unrelenting passion.

Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism.

Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.

I spent my adult life as a scientist, and science is, essentially, the most successful approach we have to try and understand the vast mysteries around.

The conscious mind is not at the center of the action in the brain; instead, it is far out on a distant edge, hearing but whispers of the activity.

I call myself a Possibilian: I'm open to...ideas that we don't have any way of testing right now.

But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.

But you know, I'm just not a quitter.

But Barack Obama is not a person who would defend the rights and heritage of the European-American people.

I have never supported white supremacism but I read this [this description of me] in the papers.

Every member Congress is under the threat of being destroyed by the Israeli lobby.

I'm not a comic book character. I'm not Indiana Jones or Bond, I'm a flesh and blood guy who is ageing and changing. I don't have to do what I did in '93. I couldn't do it and thank God.

I had a fear that I'd be typecast, but I don't really have that fear anymore.

Without whining and without making myself a tragic figure, there is no replacement for the loss of your privacy. It's a huge sacrifice.

I've got huge tubs full of X-Files memorobilia that I can sell on eBay.

It's so off the charts and off anybody's radar screen, that place. It might as well be another planet. Just try to find somebody who's been to Madagascar. Nobody has been to Madagascar.

I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.

Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.

Successfully completing a lesser purpose doesn't feel good very good for very long, because it is simply preparation for advancing toward a greater embodiment of your deeper purpose.

You are either withholding your love in fear or giving your deepest gifts.

Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.