S.A. David Quotes

The face of a golden retriever feels like home.

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

History is like a constantly changing tree.

Harmony is something we must have with others, but it must start inside us first.

Context is so important, not to mimic but to become part of the place. I wanted a building that acknowledges its surroundings.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache.

Just because I’m cheeky, doesn’t mean I’m not serious

You will go through tough times, it's about getting through them.

My priority is always the family and Victoria [Beckham] and I always ensure we are there for our children. We work hard but family comes first.

If you are in front of a wall that you cannot get past, would you just keep banging your head into the wall?... No, you would find a new wall.

So if you do acrobatics things on the street with no other goal than showing off, please don't say it's parkour. Acrobatics existed long time ago before parkour.

The common-sense notion that 'there is a time and a place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the social order by assigning social meanings to spaces and times.

Would you carry a razor, in case, just in case of depression?

I never could get over the fact that The Pixies formed, worked and separated without America taking them to its heart or even recognizing their existence for the most part.

I'm totally not a nostalgic person. I always look to the future and as much as I've enjoyed the ride until now and the different phases, I'm more excited about the next music.

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their demons are also what make them create.

It would be wrong to suggest that Scotland could not be another such successful, independent country.

My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life.

We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.

Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what they see as their language.

Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.

Whatever you get paid attention for is never what you think is most important about yourself.

No day in which you learn something is a complete loss.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't.

The world's No. 1 tennis player spends 90 percent of his time winning, while the world's No. 1 golfer spends 90 percent of his time losing. Golfers are great losers.

I never ate of the grapes nor feared of the eruptions.

Study the methods of your competitors and do the exact opposite.

Good products can be sold by honest advertising. If you don't think the product is good, you have no business to be advertising it.

When I put God first, God takes care of me and energizes me to do what really needs to be done.

Start close in, don’t take the second step or the third, start with the first thing close in, the step you don’t want to take.

All the Christmas presents in the world are worth nothing without the presence of Christ.

I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.

The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

There is only one path, though there are many ways to experience it.

Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.

I am more willing to come out when I get my message from my commander.

Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

Focus on being the best you can at what you want to do.

Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It's not the time that matters, it's the person.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.

Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.