S.A. David Quotes

I'm not about to put up a silly skit and preach a 15-minute message on 'how to cope' to a multitude of people who are dying and going to hell. I tremble at the thought.

Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?"

A willing heart is the first step in finding God's will in our lives. We cannot expect God to force us or to plead with us about the calling in our lives.

I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.

The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

I would just like to say that after all these years of heavy drinking, bright lights and late nights, I still don't need glasses. I drink right out of the bottle.

Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love.

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

If you observe a really happy man you will find him building a boat, writing a symphony, educating his son, growing Double Dahlias in his garden.

I learned more from my mother than from all the art historians and curators who have informed me about technical aspects of art history and art appreciation over the years.

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.

You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.

Trust nothing but your own experience.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.

I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.

You're always going to face criticism, you're always going to face challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more committed.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

A Jew is anyone who says he is.

Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things.

Train not to get something right, train so that you can never get it wrong

Move to California. Malibu is paradise.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

To be aroused in the dark by five feet of cold, green snake gliding over one's face is unpleasant.

If you ever find a man who is better than you are - hire him. If necessary, pay him more than you pay yourself.

God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.

Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art.

If the antisemites want to hate, let them hate, and let them go to hell.

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

I have a face that is a cross between two pounds of halibut and an explosion in an old clothes closet.

The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force.

The more informative your advertising, the more persuasive it will be.

Life is a mirror that magnifies. What we see 'out there' is only a duplication of what we are inside.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Just because something is legible doesn't mean it communicates...

The day is coming when even the most closed-minded ridiculers will have to face the truth.

My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard

Christ does not inhabit buildings or a certain atmosphere; in fact, the very heavens cannot contain Him. Rather, He is manifested through our obedient, sanctified bodies-His temples.

But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost.

Corporate worship is a regular gracious reminder that it's not about you. You've been born into a life that is a celebration of another.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

As children we believe that anything is possible, the trick is to never forget it.

Mohammed praises [instances of] tretchery, inhumanity, cruelty, revenge, and bigotry that are utterly incompatible with civilized society.

We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.