David Quotes

Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.

Psychologically, when you've been overweight you want to achieve the polar opposite.

It's annoying when people do that so-called comedians impression of me when it's stupid nonsense.

You're all brainwashed into believing you're ugly.

Blessed are those who dwell in your house, ever singing your praise...Blessed are those whose strength is in you...blessed is the one who trusts in you!

Praise the Lord, my soul, who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. The Lord works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.

The history of government regulation of food safety is one of government watchdogs chasing the horse after it's out of the barn.

People who live with OCD drag a mental sea anchor around. Obsession is a brake, a source of drag, not a badge of creativity, a mark of genius or an inconvenient side effect of some greater function.

If the poor rabbits knew I was selling their dead bodies for wine, they would be heartbroken.

There's no question that the mind-body connection is real, even if we can't quantify it. Hope is one of the greatest weapons we have to fight disease.

Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.

Anybody who goes searching can find enough artistic things I've done that nobody can ever say I sold out.

The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity

'I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'.

The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

People allow themselves to get distracted; I think ultimately, probably the biggest thing that gets in the way of people doing what they ought to be doing at any point in time is distraction.

For me the grotesque is necessary to understand beauty.

I figured out that art would be the perfect place for me because what's encouraged is the invention of languages.

In symphonic music, when you are conducting, you do the same thing. You are feeling the whole orchestra, thinking ahead so you can prepare for a change.

Lawrence Ferlinghetti had a tremendous education as an artist and also an enormous knowledge of literarture.

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

The self is an oral society in which the present is constantly running a dialogue with the past and the future inside of one skin.

I was trying to find out what it was that everybody else understood without giving up my stubborn and hard-won lack of understanding.

I reserve the right to tell shaggy dog stories or even common jokes as part of what I'm doing. I don't give a damn if half the audience walks out.

There are editing procedures for talks just as there are editing procedures in jazz improvisation.

The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer.

A myth is the name of a terrible lie told by a smelly little brown person to a man in a white suit with a pair of binoculars.

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

When my mother left her second husband, she wrote her autobiography and presented it to him for his approval.

No one can understand what’s the best thing for you to do, other than yourself.

The reason why you date people is to get to know who you're gonna marry and spend the rest of your life with

Every time I would think about my purpose, the answers seemed to come in sounds. In melodies. In feelings.

Fundamentally not to waste energy. If we were all to reduce our demands for energy, it would make an enormous amount of difference.

The notion of ever more old people needing ever more young people, who will in turn grow old and need even more young people, and so on ad infinitum, is an obvious ecological Ponzi scheme.

I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit.

Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.

I'm a kibitzer with a broad portfolio.

People want security in this insecure world.

I was ten when I got my first serious beating. It was rough.

Two people can care for each other but not want the same things.

When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.

You haven't yet seen me be rude. When I am it's unmistakable. - Michelle Maxwell.

Talent may get someone off the starting blocks faster, but without a sense of direction or a goal to strive for, it won't count for much

I have got this obsessive compulsive disorder where I have to have everything in a straight line, or everything has to be in pairs.

I don't think I'm really in a situation to complain, because I consider myself to be privileged to be doing what I do.

I always used to go for blondes and quiet girls, but Victoria is the total opposite - dark and loud.

I wasn't as fit as I would of liked to have been, going to the World Cup, but I'm not sure what difference that made.

We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently.

Boxing is show-business with blood.

Not the absorption capacity of the land, but the creative ability of a people, is the true yardstick with which we can measure the immigration potentialities of the land.