S.A. David Quotes

What do I think of the reverse sweep? It's like Manchester United getting a penalty and Bryan Robson taking it with his head

If this bloke's a Test match bowler, then my backside is a fire engine

England have nothing to lose here, apart from this test match.

Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for France because when I wrote it, there wasn't the audience demand for crime stuff that there is now.

[The General Staff] maintained three sets of casualty figures, one to fool the public, one to fool the Government and one to fool themselves.

Believe me, Germany is unable to wage war.

The conventional heaven with its angels perpetually singing etc nearly drove me mad in my youth and made me an atheist for ten years. My opinion is that we shall be reincarnated.

If you want to understand a subject promise to speak on it.

Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power.

Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears, prejudices, misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.

Explain to me again the difference between superstitious beliefs or pagan incantations, and scientific ones. Be braver - you cannot cross a chasm in two small jumps.

One cannot cross an abyss in two jumps.

Winston [Churchill] is the only remaining specimen of a real Tory.

It was Adam Appleby's misfortune that at the moment of awakening from sleep his consciousness was immediately flooded with everything he least wanted to think about

Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

I do feel like the hardest thing is to do something simple and tap into whatever remains of our common language rather than cultivating your own willfully esoteric vocabulary.

I'm the worst at favourites! I don't have one - I love all my children, I love them all equally.

I feel like the world is super different now than it was in 2009. And to get at something that's somewhat darker, harsher, rougher, and a bit more challenging feels right.

I'm super interested in visual, and I love that being in a band can be as much about making an image as it is about making a sound.

I think certain people would be moved to be nostalgic about America's glory days, when the music set the tone for the cultural conversation and popular musicians had this absurd level of authority.

Sometimes when you're on tour, it feels like you're living the same day over and over again.

The idea of letting a recording be a moment in time appealed to me. With digital recording, it's easy to create a perfect text of whatever song you have.

It's a weird job because making music or writing a song is a personal thing... and it kind of has to be. You can always tell when people are faking.

Today's customer journey is an iterative, complex, pinball of touchpoints.

No longer dependent on 30 second spots, today's marketers need a never-ending stream of content.

We are on the threshold of a sea change in the agency business.

I think people are well aware of our impact on the industry.

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

I have never met anyone who wasn't against war. Even Hitler and Mussolini were, according to themselves.

It’s just as easy to lie to yourself as it is to lie to other people. Maybe easier.

Reciprocity is not mandatory.

See Scott run, Run Scott run. See Scott die, No such luck.

Books are growing more honest at a younger age, and the world is becoming less warm and fuzzy. Or at least the monsters are out in the open.

She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book." She knew they were all real books. This is how great a librarian she was. And how great a mom.

If the US is the country that most contributes with greenhouse gases, in the world, it should assume more responsibility to reduce emissions

Don't make a film if it can't be the film you want to make. It's a joke, and a sick joke, and it'll kill you.

Individual peace is the unit of world peace.

I'm not a musician, but I play music. So it's a strange thing.

I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like I'm painting with my teeth.

I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.

The greatest thing my father left me was a love for cutting wood - my love for sawing, especially pine wood.

Being in darkness and confusion is interesting to me.

Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.

The technology can change, but storytelling remains the same. It's just a digital world now instead of an analog world, but now the storytelling's the same. You got different tools. That's all.

You've got to let accidents and strange things happen - let it work, so it's got an organic sort of quality ... By trying to remove yourself you can see some fantastic things sometimes.

I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon.

My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.

Well, I've been blessed with good hair, or at least some people think it is. It is the way it is, sort of does what it wants to. So, yeah, I guess it is [a metaphor for your views on art and life].