David Quotes

You may say to yourself: "Well, how did I get here?"

I love writing. I don't claim to be great at it. Occasionally I get a good sentence off. But I love the activity.

By the time Talking Heads were starting, my feeling was to throw out everything and start from scratch onstage; strip it down to as close to zero as you can get and then you can make it yours.

That's the one for my tombstone... Here lies David Byrne. Why the big suit?

From what I've heard, Paris did a little bit more prep work as far as making bike lanes and all of that stuff. They really did it properly, which New York is getting to little by little.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?

People in Latin America... love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

Every time I visit Iraq or Afghanistan I am blown away.

There should be no "means of communication" which "we cannot read".

The EU must be able to act with the speed and flexibility of a network, not the cumbersome rigidity of a bloc.

In a race for limited resources, it is the energy efficient that will win the race

We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.

I am Conservative to the core of my being, as those who know me best will testify.

I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago.

It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected.

You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor.

I'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner.

If you're not willing to risk, there are no rewards.

I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw some of the great talents of all time in the local area where I lived.

My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.

I've always had a love for horses since I was really young. When I was 5 years old, the only thing that made me happy was when they'd take me out and give me pony rides.

I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat under my eyes. My mum looked 30 when she was 60, so I guess I owe it all to genes and hair dye.

I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.

Don't get too comfortable. We are here for a certain period of time, and how much of your life are you gonna choose to spend with distractions? How do you make your choices? What is important?

When I was doing 'The Sopranos,' I liked putting music together with the film; that was my favorite part of it.

I may not be the most interesting architect, but I'm still out there and have maintained some position of integrity.

Most architects work in ­studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and ­historical ­research were irrelevant.

Fear is an instinct, like hunger or anger. We need it to help us survive, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. It lets us know whether we should fight or flee.

The moral climate within the ruling class in this country is not that different from the moral climate within the ruling class of Hitler's Germany

There goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class

He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62.

This is a young man who is only 25, and you have to say, her has answered every question that has ever been asked.

If you wanna know the truth, you make or break my day. If you wanna know the truth, I wouldn't have it any other way.

I try to help people realize their dreams by using magic to tell stories that educate, move, and inspire.

Ride on! Rough-shod if need be, smooth-shod if that will do, but ride on! Ride on over all obstacles, and win the race!

An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.

To become a courageous leader, you must realize that accepting responsibility is not optional - it's mandatory.

There is a direct correlation between the books you read and the success you achieve.

I can't stand it when Lewis Hamilton or anyone else, is made out to be a godlike character. If Lewis was driving for Red Bull I'm sure he would race extremely well, but he'd be battling for points.

So not only can you not imagine dying, you can't really imagine existence before you were born.

I'm very anti-religious because religion tends to disembody you.

If you put yourself in a group of people you cannot work with it's obviously going to be a disaster.

Let's put it this way, when I was casting, I cast Viggo first and then found someone who could play his wife, rather than the other way around. So for me he's still the lead character.

Your'e seeing me develop, not only as a filmmaker if you've seen my earlier films, but you're seeing me kind of learn how to be a human, how my philosophy has evolved.

Chestnut brown canary, ruby throated sparrow, sing a song, don't be long, thrill me to the marrow.

Now record companies are run by lawyers and accountants. The shift from the one to the other was definitely related to when the takes started to get big.

I'm concerned about organized religion getting away with what it gets away with.

Aqua Teen Hunger Force is one of the funniest shows on TV and I was a little intimidated working with those guys 'cause you're in a sound booth by yourself and they're all in a room in Atlanta.

There's the disingenuous duplicitousness, but you can apply that to every politician, really.

I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry.