David Cross Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
-
I have the feeling of being a very small item on this planet, and literature enables me to express that.
-
The social system grows rigid but the productive forces continue to expand, and conflict ensues between the forces of production and the social conditions of production.
-
How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.
-
I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.
-
I never read about photography.
-
I don't believe in a lot of schmoozing and buttering up. Not that you don't become friends in work. But I think it's a misconception that you have to do a lot of hanging before you work.
-
We all know the types who listen to Pete Seeger songs; even Pete admits they aren't interesting.
-
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
-
There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.
-
You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.
-
I'm not driven by being understood.
-
I slept just floating in the middle of the flight deck, the upper deck of the space shuttle.
-
I like thrillers. My style of movies are closer to thrillers.
-
I have married thriteen couples. I'm about to do a marriage next month.
-
If you don't have dialysis, absolutely, you will die. Dialysis is actually keeping me alive.
-
I do truly believe that the smallest stories can wind up being the biggest because it's through the specific that a writer can best access the universal.
-
I have never applied for a share in Tehelka.
-
What I do remember is visualization of the sound of music, seeing bodies in movement in relation to how music sounded, because my mother practiced at the keyboard a lot and I also went to her lessons. As a two year old, three year old I remember seeing things in movement.
-
As long as there is no proselytism... we must facilitate the partnership between parents and schools.
-
In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.
-
Building capacities for the young generation is going to make a better generation and a better future tomorrow for Africa.
-
I know what I want, but I'm not allowed to pick a favorite.If I was to say one guy, that guy would be feeling like 'I got this,' and I want everybody to have a chance.
-
I was heavily influenced by Andy Kaufman and Steven Wright.
