David Quotes

Accept yourself. But realize your behaviors can be bad.

You have to have some level of attachment, you can still have passion and believe but it has to be softened somewhat.

I went to a bunch of marches in New York and Washington, and you know I believe in the cause, but to march with those people takes a lot of compromise on my end.

The South has more of a disproportionate amount of irony on T-shirts than any other region in the country.

The Bible is the funniest book I have ever read. It's so funny! Right in the first six pages, it's funny!

I write very sporadically. I write sometimes three things in a week and then nothing for a year. I make a space for it but I don't push it. They just come and they come.

Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of him at home sailing a big boat to Bermuda in his 20s. I still have it.

Even Hitchcock liked to think of himself as a puppeteer who was manipulating the strings of his audience and making them jump. He liked to think he had that kind of control.

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation.

Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, but everybody had to go through it because you're not born with that knowledge.

Enthusiasm is something you can't fake, and it has a tremendous effect on everyone around you.

Guard your integrity as if it's your most precious leadership possession, because that is what it is.

Whether we know it or not, our minds and hearts are populated by all the characters we will ever need - though we may disassemble them and rearrange the parts into composites for variation.

Compelling characters are not cogs in the machine of your plot; they are human beings to whom the story happens.

Characterization requires a constant back-and-forth between the exterior events of the story and the inner life of the character.

Magicians are the people who began to use film as an illusion on stage.

My dreams are my dress rehearsals for my future.

I am fortunate to have the resources to have many methods to do each of my illusions.

Almost without exception, everything society has considered a social advance has been prefigured first in some utopian writing.

Peru score their third, and It's 3-1 to Scotland.

That's the fastest time ever run - but it's not as fast as the world record

The Olivet Discourse is not about the Second Coming of Christ. It is a prophecy of the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70.

Our Lord never called His people to help build the tower of Babel in the hope of getting a Bible study in the basement. He commanded us to build our own city on a hill.

I'm grasping with how you do something on a large scale with multiple operations and not have quality decrease.

A philosopher might find the general work unsophisticated, and scientists are often bemused by esoteric talk of zombies, supervenience, and possible worlds.

I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.

I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five years in Las Vegas have been amazing.

I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding and I've been doing it now for 30 years, so I have some credibility.

I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't working they were very supportive.

Red hair stigmatizes you.

It's time to place the market within a moral framework - even if that means standing up to companies who make life harder for parents and families.

I want to be the voice of change and hope. I want to confront the big challenges this country faces.

You've taxed too much, borrowed too much and are a roadblock to reform.

I believe man-made climate change is one of the most serious threats that this country and this world face.

People are crying out for a Conservative Party that is decent, reasonable, common sense and in it for the long term of this country.

Britain is characterised not just by its independence but, above all, by its openness. We have always been a country that reaches out. That turns its face to the world.

You do not have to be an economist to know that putting up the cost of employing someone is a pretty barking thing to do when you're trying to get out of a recession.

To shake your rump is to be environmentally aware.

Journalism is about covering important stories-with a pillow, until they stop moving.

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

Things that change history tend to be organized.

It would be as naive to study the song of the nightingale, as it would be ridiculous to try and win a King's Gambit against a representative of the old chess guard.

Chess is infinite, and one has to make only one ill-considered move, and one's opponent's wildest dreams will become reality.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

History and geology show what an eyeblink it's been since our current, comfortable culture came about. And yet that culture is using up absolutely everything at a ferocious rate.

Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.

When you believe in yourself and you know that you can do it then your body just follows suit.

Toward night, I felt my soul rejoice, that God is unchangeable happy and glorious and that He will be glorified, whatever becomes of His creatures.

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

I may have invented Control-Alt-Delete, but Bill Gates made it famous.