S.A. David Quotes
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
And maybe it is only by finding yourself that you can feel the true intensity of becoming close to another person.
If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.
It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.
I am the animal at the head of the pack. … I either get eaten, or I get the good grass.
I mean, you know, while I'm acting on stage I'm ranking quite high, but in a room with Barack Obama I'm probably into negative digits. I never feel very famous.
How galling to watch someone who looks like you, who basically is you, do all the shagging you didn't get to do.
Success comes from doing what you enjoy. If you don't enjoy it, how can it be called success?
Comfort has its place, but it seems rude to visit another country dressed as if you’ve come to mow its lawns.
To me, a wilderness is where the flow of wildness is essentially uninterrupted by technology; without wilderness the world is a cage.
It's always good to take something that's happened in your life and make something of it comedically.
Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
I think we're in a post-pornographic time and nothing seems shocking, but everything remains carnal no matter what you do.
Every time I hear sounds, I see pictures. Then, I start getting ideas. It just drives me crazy
When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference.
Films are 50 percent visual and 50 percent sound. Sometimes sound even overplays the visual.
After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days - on the road outside the hall.
To move out of the patterns of our past and create the future we want we must pass through the gateway of the present
Is there such a thing as a technically perfect swing? If there is, I have yet to see it.
The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.
I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged.
I know that people think I'm a party king; but, face it, if I finished the bottle every time I took a drink, I wouldn't be able to do the aerials I do onstage.
The pictures present an improvised view of life as normal. Life is shown as we think we see it but in fact never do. The pictures imitate life to find a way out.
I see that mankind still survives after all its attempts to destroy itself and so I surmise that it is the law of love that rules mankind.
The Ryan plan isn't a budget. It's the last will and testament of the Republican party.
One single gift acknowledged in gratefulness has the power to dissolve the ties of our alienation.
Whatever you do, if you do it hard enough you'll enjoy it. The important thing is to work and work hard.
The challenge is to learn to respond immediately to whatever it is time for. Not to wonder whether you have time for it or whether you like it, but simply to respond when it is time.
Pepsi has a new Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew. No, we don't have an Ebola vaccine, but we do have the Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew.
Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.