David A. Siegel Quotes

The campaign commercials don't tell you anything.

David A. Siegel

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• When readers close the covers on 'Running the Rift,' I want them to understand that it is not a genocide novel but rather a story of hope and rebirth.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Hope
  • Want
  • Running

• My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling things, and I also managed landscape crews.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Growing

• Everyone else has some interest in economic growth and development, which often happens at the expense of the environment and community. We need the other side to join this to check and balance.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Community
  • Environment
  • Growth

• The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Truth
  • You
  • Journalism

• A book comes and says, 'Write me.' My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Good
  • Job
  • Book

• Well, first of all, I'm an incredibly gullible person - I'm so bad that when I said that to someone, my friend said, 'You know, 'gullible' isn't even in the dictionary.' And I said, 'Really?' As I was saying 'Really?' I will acknowledge that I then realized what was happening, but that's how bad I am.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Bad
  • Person
  • Gullible

• My only conclusion about structure is that nothing works if you don't have interesting characters and a good story to tell.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Good
  • Interesting
  • Story

• Liberty means more to me than life itself.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
  • Life
  • Liberty
  • More

• Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Death
  • Struggle
  • Old

• I try not to read the stuff online because it's so hurtful and stuff. There was somebody that said I was messing up my genetics by dating my boyfriend because he's not black. It was an interesting thing to read.

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Up
  • Black
  • Interesting

• The bottom line is that people don't have the right to manipulate or to breed dogs and cats... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own kind.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People

• The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Emotional

• I haven't done much voice-over work, but I enjoy it. I'm hoping to do more in the future.

  

  Mark Valley
  • Work
  • Done
  • Future

• Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.

  

  Bill Ackman
  • Business
  • Opportunity

• I don't like conflicts. I'm not a competitive person at heart. To be in the middle of turmoil is boring.

  

  Christian Louboutin
  • Heart

• I can't remember how old I was, maybe 13, 14, and to see these fellows and hear their stories and to see life come to such a drab ending - my God, a poorhouse in those days was something. You would have to be inert not to respond to it.

  

  James A. Michener
  • Life
  • God
  • Remember

• That's just my family's mentality. We are a very loving, hugging and kissing kind of family. And we grew up in a church atmosphere and still have that atmosphere. There is no negativity.

  

  Eric Davis
  • Up
  • Family
  • Church

• Between sixteen and eighteen, I was singing anywhere I could, in bars or down at the pub.

  

  Rita Ora
  • Singing

• When people give you a writing assignment, they're asking what you think. That's the very opposite of being an actor. When you're an actor, no one wants to hear what you think.

  

  David Rakoff
  • People
  • Writing

• It's really hard for me to sing and play bass.

  

  Kim Gordon Sonic Youth

• The word 'conservative' is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.

  

  Norman Tebbit
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Abuse

• The campaign commercials don't tell you anything.

  

  David A. Siegel