Dave Attell Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
-
Change is no threat to culture.
-
I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
-
I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
-
For years, I believed that anything worth doing was worth doing early. In graduate school, I submitted my dissertation two years in advance. In college, I wrote my papers weeks early and finished my thesis four months before the due date. My roommates joked that I had a productive form of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
-
The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.
-
In any authoritarian society, the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside, he will come after you. This is equally true of Sovietism, of China and of Iran, and in our time it has happened a lot in Islam. The point is that it's worse when the authoritarianism is supported by something supernatural.
-
I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
-
We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments.
-
Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
-
I feel there are tone singers, and there are more vocal gymnastics singers. And I think that's amazing when people can do that, but I think there's room for the tone singers. And there aren't a lot of them.
-
I think that basketball players should get the job done no matter how it looks on the screen.
-
While 'Outlander' is a brilliant period show, Claire represents so many qualities of a 10th century modern-day woman: someone who is forging her own path, fighting for what she believes, and doing so with integrity.
-
The first time I set out to find George F. Kennan, in 1982, I had just turned 21, begun my final semester at Princeton University and noticed with astonishment that the senior thesis deadline had crept to within four months.
-
The only end of writing is to enable the readers better to enjoy life, or better to endure it.
-
Kim, KIM! Why don't you like me? You think I'm ugly don't you? (It's not that!) No you think I'm ugly
-
Μέγας γὰρ Ἅιδης ἐστὶν εὔθυνος βροτῶνἔνερθε χθονός,δελτογράφῳ δὲ πάντ᾽ ἐπωπᾷ φρενί.
-
The government may be made up of clever, sensible people. But if they do not believe in basic human values, the more clever or shrewd they are the greater the tragedy they will create.
-
It is not me who is to be noticed. It is my work.
-
I have a problem, if the light goes on on TV and it blinks midnight, I don't know how to fix it.
-
A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.
-
Parents do bear some of the responsibility if they don't talk to their kids, are never around, even deny their kids the love that young girls often crave when they decide to have a baby.
-
She had the kids during the day and I would have them at night. That way they were never alone. I would put the kids to bed, and then I had nothing to do and nobody to talk to, so I would write.
-
I have no grand scheme.
