S.A. David Quotes
All of us take an interest, to a greater or lesser extent, in what people around us look like, what they are doing, and why they are doing it.
I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged herbs, wild leeks, early season asparagus.
There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.
Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.
There's an old joke that you know you're in heaven if the cooks are Italian and the engineering is German. If it's the other way around you're in hell.
The two biggest self-deceptions of all are that life has a 'meaning'and each of us is unique.
The fact that I have a little ten-megapixel camera with me all the time, is way better than having the greatest camera in the world sitting at home on a desk instead of on my shoulder.
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.
Marital happiness is far more important than anything else in determining personal well-being.
The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were.
I have withstood the power of convictions a long time; and therefore I fear I shall be finally left of God.
To be taken seriously about doing something creative and probably travel a lot. That was my motivation. I knew I was good, I knew I could write. I also knew you could get laid really easily.
After quitting gymnastics in 2000, I was looking for that next thing where I could defy gravity. I was looking for something that had the flipping and the twisting and allowed me to be acrobatic.
Competition is all about you. It's about feeding your selfish needs. It feeds the depravity of your heart.
In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.
We can't simply take the way things seem and just work on that, because that would be another kind of mistake thought makes-taking the surface and calling it the reality.
And thought struggles against the results, trying to avoid those unpleasant results while keeping on with that way of thinking. That is what I call 'sustained incoherence.
Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.
Every time something bad happens, like we lose a day because of weather or an actor gets injured or anything else happens, the schedule has to change. It's the most challenging Tetris puzzle.
This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.
Notice, by extension, that in a democracy those committed to non-procreation could never, in the long run, prevail politically against those committed to procreation.
My life here is perfect and I'm happy at Real Madrid so, of course, I want to stay as long as I can.
When I was seven I wanted to be a footballer, but when I was 14, I wanted to be a model. Look where it's put me now!
To have a successful team, you have to have great players of course - but you have to have good personalities and good people as well.
Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.
Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out of favour.