S.A. David Quotes

I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability.

Even though Brazil has been up and down and had some difficulties, it's still a very big country, and a very important country. It's got the fourth largest domestic market in the world.

I think there's new optimism in Brazil. The Olympics went well. Our demand is good. Costs are down. We're back in the black. We're feeling really good about what's going on in Brazil.

The Lisbon hub is important to Portugal, the country. That's not going to go away. It needs to be there. The country depends on tourism.

I think there's a big market in North America [with travelers] going to Lisbon and connecting over Lisbon.

If you want to go to Spain or you want to go to France or you want go to [any] southern European countries, [Lisbon] is a great place to [connect].

I just don't think it's good public policy to tax fuel. It's kind of silly. It stops people from traveling and actually costs the economy more money than what you gain in the taxes.

You can't charge for anything in Brazil.

There's just things that are against the law.

I think because of all of the difficulties in Europe with terrorism and stuff, a lot of people ended up going to Portugal. They felt, I think, safer in Portugal.

People were desperately trying to fill their seats for the summer. And so prices are really low right now. And so they are kept from raising prices to make up for that difference.

And you've got to remember that I'm also the father of nine children.

Nobody ever thought about having to protect the passengers from the pilots.

I like shows that are surprising and not predictable. That have deep, rich characters that are fully formed.

I actually have very girly taste in television. I like a chicky relationship show probably more than anything. I really like 'Project Runway'.

The enemy of good television is boredom and predictability.

I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at 'Shameless' or 'House of Lies'. They go from big, silly, and comedic to very real dramatic moments in the wink of an eye.

He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?

At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.

The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.

Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.

Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.

Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.

Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.

I love that sound,' he mumbled into her hair. 'Blackbirds at dawn.' 'I hate it. Makes me think I've done something I'll regret.

you feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that's okay that's alright because we're all meant to be like that at twenty-four.

I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

This isn't a letter, it's a gift.

My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never went on holiday because I thought: 'What if an audition comes up?' I was a nervous wreck.

I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.

An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.

She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.

…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.

…she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same — you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.

These days the nights and mornings have a tendency to bleed into one another.

She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.

We're not ourselves, are we? I'm certainly not myself, not anymore. And you're not either. You don't seem yourself. Not as I remember you.

…and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.

You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

Being a decent human being will require effort and energy.

…and Emma felt another small portion of her soul fall away.

Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.

I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by things, but I think I'm very embarrassed by sentiment. I'm very embarrassed by corniness.

I would never complain about One Day taking off but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.

As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.

I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.

I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.

The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.

I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.

Happyish. Well, happyish isn't so bad.' 'It's the most we can hope for.