David Alan Basche Quotes

Though television is a smaller medium than the stage, you can't be afraid to be big.

David Alan Basche

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• I would like 'I Dream of Genie' powers.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Dream
  • Like
  • Would

• I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Remember
  • America
  • Horse

• The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • American
  • Distinctions
  • New Yorkers

• Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Design
  • Without
  • Visual

• Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Movie
  • Small

• I'm terrible at collaborating with people; nothing ever ends up coming out good.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I've discovered that half the people would love to go into space and there's no need to explain it to them. The other half can't understand and I couldn't explain it to them. If someone doesn't know why, I can't explain it.

  

  Sally Ride
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• Not many players would turn down a chance to play for Real Madrid and Barcelona, as they're right at the top the tree in terms of football.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Real
  • Football
  • Chance

• Until a character becomes a personality it cannot be believed. Without personality, the character may do funny or interesting things, but unless people are able to identify themselves with the character, its actions will seem unreal. And without personality, a story cannot ring true to the audience.

  

  Walt Disney
  • People
  • May
  • Character

• If you can’t feel it, it must be real.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Real

• Die Gesellschaft besteht nicht aus Individuen, sondern drückt die Summe der Beziehungen, Verhältnisse aus, worin diese Individuen zueinander stehn.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Die

• Light finds her treasure of colours through the antagonism of clouds.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Light
  • Clouds

• My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us, the world is full of it and you simply take as much as you require.

  

  Edward Elgar
  • World
  • Music
  • Air

• You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • People
  • Marriage
  • Promise

• As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn't necessarily be good.

  

  James Gleick
  • People
  • Good
  • Complaining

• Did anyone in the White House or the N.S.A or the C.I.A. consider flying to Hong Kong and treating Mr. Snowden like a human being, offering him a chance to testify before Congress and a fair trial?

  

  Alex Berenson
  • House
  • Flying

• When you genuinely feel like that was the right relationship, you're supposed to give it all you can. That's what marriage is about.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Relationship
  • Marriage

• My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Cat

• If all persons with any trace of homosexual history, or those who were predominantly homosexual, were eliminated from the population today, there is no reason for believing that the incidence of the homosexual in the next generation would be materially reduced. The homosexual has been a significant part of human sexual activity since the dawn of history, primarily because it is an expression of capacities that are basic in the human animal.

  

  Alfred Kinsey
  • History
  • Today
  • Animal

• Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Dream
  • New
  • Really

• When I work I forget all the rest.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Rest
  • Forget
  • I Work

• The prison, above all others, should be the most human of institutions.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Human
  • Prison
  • Institutions

• Inferior thinking and writing will make a name for a man among inferior people, who in all ages and countries, are the majority.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Though television is a smaller medium than the stage, you can't be afraid to be big.

  

  David Alan Basche