S.A. David Quotes

We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.

With studio work, I'm always the bottom man on the totem pole.

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

The first floor could be a restaurant. A good restaurant can survive as long as it has easy accessibility.

The only school that let me in was U.C. Santa Cruz, which is where I went. They didn't have a journalism program, so I took sociology, which is the closest thing to journalism.

I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now.

Our faith is not meant to get us out of a hard place or change our painful condition. Rather, it is meant to reveal God's faithfulness to us in the midst of our dire situation.

the sight of me is good for sore eyes

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance.

The art and culture that is New York, communications, finance, all these things help make up New York. The rest of the country should be happy that we are what we are.

There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from.

Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.

I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today" and, "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

Very few people chose war. They chose selfishness and the result was war. Each of us, individually and nationally, must choose: total love or total war.

Well, American composers are the best composers. At this time in the world, we are where the energy is. We are the most diverse, the most iconoclastic, the most maverick, and the most skillful.

This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.

Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated.

Occasionally I'll watch Fox News for as long as I can tolerate it, or CNN. I'll watch until I get infuriated, but you got to know what they're talking about and what they're not talking about.

I love doing stuff with Todd Barry and Jon Benjamin. We give the stage to good bands and funny people.

It is very important to understand that emotional intelligence is not the opposite of intelligence, it is not the triumph of heart over head - it is the unique intersection of both.

I've been in The Who, I've been in The Beatles and I've been in Pink Floyd! Top that!

I headline concert halls for 20,000 people, but I still play smaller venues.

The key ingredient to better content is separating the single from the stream.

As an artist, you have to keep reinventing yourself.

To change your reality you have to change your inner thoughts.

I'd go to Coney Island to hang out, and I saw a magician doing a rope trick on the boardwalk. I was fascinated. I guess that's how it started.

What the hell have Greenpeace and WWF done? They are paid very good salaries and they float around the world saying, 'We are helping the world,' but they haven't.

If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.

The camera can't see space. It sees surfaces. People see space, which is much more interesting.

You can be the one - in - a - million. Don’t be discouraged by the odds to Succeed.

I prefer to speak of 'interdimensionals' rather than 'extraterrestrials' because the latter has connotations of 'little green men' and all the other cliché responses. Nor does it tell the full story.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

America is grappling with cultural diversity, and I just want to put a show on that represents the world in which I live.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

While I don't script and I don't use other performers, I think my taste for underlying precision gives me something in common with Allan and George Brecht.

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves

I'll never forget anything about Middle Earth. That's part of my memory now so I won't miss anything.

True happiness comes only by making others happy.

There are a couple of roles I haven't played that I want to. I would love to play Shiloh.

I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.

When a soldier is hit by a cannonball, rags are as becoming as purple.

You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit.

I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house.

Musical theatre is something I'm familiar with, I've been doing that.

Gratefulness is the inner gesture of giving meaning to our life by receiving life as gift.

I have been asked this question over and over again: 'Dr. Jeremiah, do you think God is finished with America?' But that is the wrong question. The right question is: 'Is America finished with God?'

One of the things I have an allergic reaction to playing, especially as a black actor, is the mandatory kind of best friend/cop/detective type. You will never see me in that movie.

We are called by God to do theology, that is, to live our lives with a moment-by-moment consciousness of God.