S.A. David Quotes

Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read.

It's really important to me not to be known as Ross when I'm 60.

Research: the distance between an idea and its realization.

While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.

Truth is, I didn't know what the hell I was doing when I got out of Cal Arts. I think I wasted a lot of time not being bold enough, or still engaged in the questioning that you get into at school.

Ever since I started painting, I have tried to get the fluidity and surprise of image connection, the simultaneity of film montage, into painting.

The only thing worth doing is what's never been done before.

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not have contrived a more curious and inspiring sight.

I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.

God had an only Son and He made Him a missionary.

It is either Christ or chaos.

The government are behaving like a bevy of maiden aunts who have fallen among buccaneers.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn.

The foundation is in place, and now we have to get to work.

The only thing that disturbs me is that many psychopaths say they had a very happy childhood.

I like darkness and confusion and absurdity, but I like to know that there could be a little door that you could go out into a safe life area of happiness.

I love industry. Pipes. I love fluid and smoke. I love man-made things. I like to see people hard at work, and I like to see sludge and man-made waste.

My cow is not pretty, but it is pretty to me.

Everybody's got creativity. You just get more of it [when you meditate].

The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning

If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal - that is your success.

To lack intelligence is to be in the ring blindfolded.

More than any other factor, it is the people we have to deal with that determine the quality of our work lives.

I will not accept your guidance and critique unless you are supportive and nurturing. On the other hand, you need to be continually demanding.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

Mathematics is concerned with "all possible worlds."

I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think

It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.

I believe it's time for direct action on climate change, standing together as ordinary Australians to take control of our shared future.

My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.

Of course, Steven Gerrard is one of only a few Liverpool players who never get left out by Rafa; and even he doesn't always get picked.

Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.

Every child begins the world again.

I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.

We assume that our race simply deserves heaven; that God owes heaven to us unless we do something really bad to warrant otherwise.

The urgent can drown out the important.

Don't start by talking about your products and services instead think about the people you are trying to reach

God actually delights in exalting our inability. He intentionally puts his people in situations where they come face to face with their need for him.

Money can be a very important form of "ammunition," although we should never forget that when you're being shot at the most important ammunition is real ammunition.

I think no commander ever is going to come out and say, 'I'm confident that we can do this.

I think Putin wants to recreate as much of the Soviet Union as he can through a variety of different means. He's invaded parts of Georgia, took Crimea, southeastern Ukraine, bases in other countries.

I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government

Learning is a consequence of thinking.

Every sentence is the result of a long probation.