S.A. David Quotes
A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.
People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
You know the drill. 18 is legal. 17 with consent. 16 with a note. 15 if her dad's in the room. Low five!
I'm a gentleman and I was always taught it's rude, to talk about a woman's age or weight unless you are breaking up with her.
Every feature has some maintenance cost, and having fewer features lets us focus on the ones we care about and make sure they work very well.
Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christ’s pursuit of us.
Everything in all creation responds in obedience to the Creator... until we get to you and me. We have the audacity to look God in the face and say, "No."
I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
The books for young people say a great deal about the selection of Friends; it is because they really have nothing to say about Friends. They mean associates and confidants merely.
A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.
A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
The moose is singularly grotesque and awkward to look at. Why should it stand so high at the shoulders? Why have so long a head? Why have no tail to speak of?
Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.
It's very hard to be objective about something you're in, especially when you set it up against things that you experienced as a child.
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
What I really hated, of course, was my mind. There must have been an off switch somewhere, but I was damned if I could find it.
That ability to see the right choice, but not until several hours have passed since making the wrong one? That's what makes a person a dumbass, folks.
If your clients aren't actively telling their friends about you, maybe your work isn't as great as you think it is.
Moths are the ones that freak me out. It's something to do with the way that, if they get squashed, they turn to dust. There's something very wrong about that. It all feels a bit Gothic.
I think if my eight-year-old self could see me at the Royal Albert Hall winning a prize for playing the Doctor on telly, he would need a stiff shot of Irn-Bru.
To have someone who's got a strong individual voice that is allowed to be heard is quite increasingly rare. These people need to be cherished.
I'm always impressed with what young people can do before older people tell them it's impossible
I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.
Who do you think has more freedom: the married man in America or the single man in Communist China?
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.
We are blood-secured, delivered from the enemy’s power, and raised up into newness of life in God.