S.A. David Quotes

Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.

People often ask, why aren't you reading about what it is you're working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close.

Find a space where you can be creative and a place where you are open for free thinking, you want to enjoy what you are doing and do what you are best at.

How you imagine the world determines how you live in it.

If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

Aggressiveness was a fundamental to success in airtoair combat and if you ever caught a fighter pilot in a defensive mood you had him licked before you started shooting.

Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?

Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.

Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man?

People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!

All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.

I supported myself by delivering the 'Wall Street Journal' and doing odd jobs. I love plumbing and carpentry.

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs.

Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.

Well, you know, I played Mufasa in the workshop of The Lion King.

Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary.

Faith is not knowledge of what the mystery of the universe is, but the conviction that there is a mystery, and that it is greater than us.

There's always something funny about men chasing women.

Anybody who thinks money will make you happy, hasn't got money.

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out.

Cuba's poverty is caused by the crackpot Marxist doctrines imposed by its sociopathic ruler and promoted by half the liberal arts professors on American faculties.

The difference between libertarianism and socialism is that libertarians will tolerate the existence of a socialist community, but socialists can't tolerate a libertarian community.

Magic is not about having a puzzle to solve. It's about creating a moment of awe and astonishment. And that can be a beautiful thing.

The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page.

Begin with the simplest examples.

Play is not only our creative drive; it's a fundamental mode of learning.

Success requires enough optimism to provide hope and enough pessimism to prevent complacency.

Love wholeheartedly, be surprised, give thanks and praise then you will discover the fullness of your life.

There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values.

My timing’s a little off. But I’m about to get hotter than Jamaica in the middle of August.

The essence of true friendship, in my view, is to make allowances for one another's little lapses.

An open ear is the only believable sign of an open heart.

If we want to know the Glory of God, if we want to experience the beauty of God, and if we want to be used by the hand of God, then we must LIVE in the WORD of God.

Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism.

Not being funny doesn't make you a bad person. Not having a sense of humor does.

Only that day dawns to which we are awake.

The difference between good and bad architecture is the time you spend on it.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Art has to move you and design does not, unless it's a good design for a bus.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell.

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

What is to be gained if we are so intent in reaching out to the unchurched that we then unchurch the reached?

Do not speak badly of yourself, for the warrior that is inside you hears your words and is lessened by them.

All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.

The mind is a kind of theater, where several perceptions successively make their appearence; pass, re-pass, glide away, and mingle in an infinite variety of postures and situations.