David Attenborough Quotes
If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.
Quotes to Explore
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
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In film you can use images exclusively and narrate a whole story very quickly, but you don't always so easily find the form in cinema to dig deeper into human thoughts and emotions. And in a novel you can much more easily express a character's inner thoughts and feelings.
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My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.
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I'm going to start these art museums that are basically converted homes, and I have one for modern art, and I have one for 19th century European art, and one for French impressionism. I've got Japanese.
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When one knows at an early age that their gift, talent and direction is musical, one tends to focus on that and let nothing interfere or impede the forward motion toward the end of that rainbow. And after 50-something years of rockin' out, you still realise there is no end to that distant rainbow until one's last sunset.
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I have a lot of passion for a lot of different things.
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What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
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A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right minded man without forethought or with reserve.
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I remember when I met my wife and that she could just grab my hand and I would just ease. I don't know how to say that but it was one of the coolest things. It was strange, but it definitely changed my life.
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Whoever doesn't want to hear our voice needs to see a political otolaryngologist.
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I still like to make crank calls.
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During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.
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I love theater. I grew up doing theater.
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Whatever you want, you have the power to attain it. The man or woman who calmly and matter-of-factly accepts this pronouncement at face value will soon find himself working magical accomplishments far beyond that which he previously dreamed possible.
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A State can sue for negligence as well as fraud damages.
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When the gift I give to the other is integral to my own nature, when it comes from a place of organic reality within me, it will renew itself-and me-even as I give it away. Only when I give something that does not grow within me do I deplete myself and harm the other as well, for only harm can come from a gift that is forced, inorganic, unreal.
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Perfume; Any smell that is used to drown a worse one.
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There is only one dream worth having...to live while you are alive, and die only when you are dead.
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All around the circle, feeding on the green, green grass were fat and happy horses...
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Fannie and Freddie made two-thirds of all subprime mortgages. That is not a free market institution. That entity, along with the Fed printing too much money back in '03 and '04, caused the housing collapse. So we need to take free markets seriously. That means we have to put an end to all these tax credits and tax deductions and loopholes.
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If you work hard and you do your best, you can do anything.
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If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.
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If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.
