David Quotes
So they caught Gadhafi in a storm sewer and shot him. Or as they call it in the Middle East, an orderly transfer of power.
Well, the manhunt continues for that elusive evil mastermind, but I'm telling you Enron CEO Kenneth Lay remains at large.
Hillary is in Iowa to listen to what the people are saying - because if you want her to speak, that will cost you $200,000. So she's there listening.
There are so many flavors of Coke now - Coke with lemon, Coke with vanilla, Coke with lime, Cherry Coke, and they've just brought out another new flavor - Coke with Pepsi.
The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.
Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.
This is a difference between us: you desire what other people have, while I desire the things I used to have, or think I might have one day.
I preferred to hang out with the dead, dying, or desperate books - used we call them, in a way that we'd never call a person, unless we meant it cruelly
Self-esteem can be so exhausting. I want to cut my hair, change my clothes, erase the pimple from the near-tip of my nose, and strengthen my upper-arm definition, all in the next hour.
Culturally intelligent innovation begins with changing our impulse from Why can't you see it like I do? to Help me see what I might be missing!
By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.
By creating instinctively in auto mode we can uncover our true motives, our creative drive.
It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.
It’s better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or you’ll be too afraid to let things keep happening.
If you keep your eye on the doughnut and do your work, that's all you can control. You can't control any of what's out there, outside yourself.
Every viewer is going to get a different thing. That's the thing about painting, photography, cinema.
Although as a boy I had dreamed about going into space, I had completely forgotten about that until one day I received a call from an astronaut, who suggested that I should join the program.
We now have a quarter of a million fossil species, but the situation hasn't changed much... We have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin's time.
250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for by Darwin.
Rose of the desert! thou art to me An emblem of stainless purity,-- Of those who, keeping their garments white, Walk on through life with steps aright.
Whether or not your values are operational is crucially determined by whether or not there are consequences for noncompliance.
To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.
Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in.
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.
If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.
Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
Consuming three planets' worth of resources when in fact we have one is the environmental equivalent of childhood obesity - eating until you make yourself sick.
