S.A. David Quotes

Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.

A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.

The ancient Greek "oral poets" all had this anxiety about the deficiencies of their memories and always began poems by praying to the muse to help them remember.

East Yorkshire, to the uninitiated, just looks like a lot of little hills. But it does have these marvelous valleys that were caused by glaciers, not rivers. So it is unusual.

you'll never be lonely if you learn to be friend your self

I have no talent except for being able to enjoy and recognize it in others.

Sketches have characters, exits, entrances and are vastly different.

It is very good advice to believe only what an artist does, rather than what he says about his work.

The past will continue to be your future if you drag it along with you.

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

I can't imagine a life without humor. Especially if you have an existential understanding of life, you must acknowledge the absurdity of it all.

All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.

We do have a Godly heritage in America, but we have been robbed - robbed by the 3 percent.

I think we have two very important missions in life. One is to find out who we really are and the other one is to taste as much of life and experience as much of life as we can.

Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

Yup, gardening and laughing are two of the best things in life you can do to promote good health and a sense of well being.

To fulfill you potential, you need to move out of your comfort zone and into the legacy zone.

Without training you will not grow wings.

In movies, storytelling and every single art form, we're creating wonder. You're starting with a blank page and creating something that doesn't exist.

Magic is the only profession where it's easy to lie about your talent. If you do a trick and you can learn it very quickly, you can fool somebody into thinking you're a great magician.

Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone fails at something.

And here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.

Evil lives in a pit. If you want to fight it, you must climb down into the slime to do so. White cloaks show the dirt more thank black, and silver tarnishes.

The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.

true philosophical atheism must be regarded as a superstition, often nurtured by an infantile wish to live in a world proportionate to one's own hopes or conceptual limitations.

There are a lot of good people going to Hell, and a lot of bad people like you and me going to Heaven!

Each person has the right to live his life in any way he chooses so long as he respects the equal rights of others.

If you stand still long enough, you'll get stuck.

I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and son have both said that grey hair doesn't suit me because I have a boyish face.

Smiles are the language of love.

You can't stand still on one point for your entire life.

Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

What you call austerity is what I might call efficiency.

People use irony as a defense mechanism.

That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life.

My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

Oh that I may never loiter on my heavenly journey.

My soul often mourned of more time and opportunity to be alone with God

It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.

I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.

I want my tombstone to read: If this is a joke, I don't get it.

If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

An old-timer is someone who can remember when a naughty child was taken to the woodshed instead of to a psychiatrist.

Theory regards this opening as incorrect, but it is impossible to agree with this. Out of the five tournament games played by me with the King's Gambit, I have won all five.

The thought "It's impossible" sets off a chain reaction of other thoughts to prove you're right.

Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity.

But Champagne is not drinking.

I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad girl. It's the good girls men should be warned against.

Every advertisement is part of the long term investment in the personality of the brand.