S.A. David Quotes

It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.

Mother's love outlives everything

Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church stuff, but it means you’re just never the same.

Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.

I don't think of myself as a TV actor. I think of myself as a film, television and Off-Off-Off-Off Broadway actor.

The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind.

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

Faithful parents can invite the power of heaven to influence their children. Nevertheless, those children remain agents unto themselves, and the choice to repent or not ultimately is theirs.

If all opposition were curtailed, if all maladies were removed, then the primary purposes of the Father's plan would be frustrated.

It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions.

The positive and negative poles of a battery create an electrical flow. The masculine and feminine poles between people create a flow of sexual energy in motion.

Until cubism, all art, all pictures, could be 'read' by anybody. If this hadn't been so, the Christian message wouldn't have been seen by peasants and its importance would have been diminished.

I, myself, identify myself as a heathen.

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable.

Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can be found and brought out into the light.

A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference.

I learned from my uncle that jazz, like symphony music, was built to last.

I was very committed to the process of composing, working at poems, putting things together and taking them apart like some kind of experimental filmmaker.

It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them.

I learned enough Hebrew to stagger through a meaningless ceremony that I scarcely remember.

I love when you go to a horror film with real horror fans and everybody's there watching, getting involved and screaming. That's when it's most alive and exciting for me.

I love round people, I love skinny people. I love people in general; we've got to get past labels and stop being so critical about everything.

I hate bumper stickers, you can't sum anything up. All you do is paint yourself in some caricaturist corner.

Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a co-ordinated view about the planet, it's going to get worse and worse.

We should just get somebody from the left and the right and they should all throw bumper stickers at each other and the first one to cover the other one wins.

If I can bicycle, I bicycle.

I often get letters, quite frequently, from people who say how they like the programmes a lot, but I never give credit to the almighty power that created nature.

I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.

There come to one's soul heavenly thoughts as he joins in heavenly expressions coupled with heavenly melody.

Nothing you will ever do in your lifetime is likely to make you as much money as buying a home and living in it.

Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.

My understanding of life is very existential. I think that we are our bodies. There's nothing else, and when we die, that's it. No afterlife.

I can admit there are some problems in hip hop but it is only a reflection of what's taking place in our society. Hip hop is sick because America is sick.

The Founders intended only to prevent the establishment of a single national denomination, not to restrain public religious expressions.

That wall is a one directional wall. It keeps the government from running the church but it makes sure that Christian principles will always stay in government.

You must plan to be spontaneous.

My secret is practice.

Lights are to drama what music is to the lyrics of a song. The greatest part of my success in the theatre I attribute to my feeling for colors, translated into effects of light.

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

Bare feet are the best shoes!

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

I spent a majority of my life in Kansas City, so I am a Chiefs and Royals guy. I used to work for the Royals for like five years in the suites department and in the stadium club restaurant.

When sparks fly, some truly great ideas come to light.

I've never flown a kite.

The desire to see and the desire to ratify what one has seen are desires at odds with one another, if only because they proceed from separate places in the imagination.

When I was a kid, I used to watch 'Laurel and Hardy' with my cousins all the time. I still think they're extremely funny and so surreal.

I thought instead of burying myself under dirt, I'd bury myself under water so everybody could see that you're there.

Perhaps there is more sense in our nonsense and more nonsense in our 'sense' than we would care to believe.

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