David Cross Quotes

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• If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Book

• Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.

  

  Patrick Geddes
  • World
  • School
  • Day

• A brief short story may require only a few paragraphs after the climax. On the other hand, in his massive novel 'The World According to Garp,' John Irving's denouement consisted of 10 separate sections, each devoted to an individual character's fate and each almost a story in itself.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • World
  • May
  • Character

• I said to myself I've got to go up there and do it because the New York Mets keep winning every day. The game was on the line and I wanted to go out there and come through for my team. That win tonight means a lot for us.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Up
  • Game
  • Team

• I'm not a geek about equipment, I just know what I like.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Know
  • Equipment
  • Geek

• The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Man
  • Dreams

• I can't go on Gawker. I actually think the writing is really funny, but there is a chance that somebody is undercutting me.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Chance

• Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Important
  • Responsibility
  • Ignore

• Change is something that is expected and, therefore, not resisted.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Change
  • Something
  • Expected

• The number of cells in our bodies is defined by an equilibrium of opposing forces: mitosis adds cells, while programmed cell death removes them. Just as too much cell division can lead to a pathological increase in cell number, so can too little cell death.

  

  H. Robert Horvitz
  • Death
  • Lead
  • Too Much

• I'm a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Moving
  • Actor
  • Keep Moving

• Actona is a healthy company with strong values, very competent management and a solid organisation.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Strong
  • Values
  • Management

• The will of the people is the best law.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • People
  • Law

• Dango, Pume, Thwither: down with Visbhume’s breeches; let him hold his backside at the ready.

  

  Jack Vance

• All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles.Who will rule,Who will lead,Who will define,refine,confine,design,Who will dominate.All strugglesAre essentiallyPower struggles, And mostare no more intellectualthan two ramsknocking their heads together.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Together
  • Design

• I am not sure just what the unpardonable sin is, but I believe it is a disposition to evade the payment of small bills.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Believe
  • Small

• I never chose money, I always chose people. I wanted to be around people who knew more than I did. I think that’s why I never fell in love with an actor. They never seemed to know any more than I did. I wanted to be with writers… My idea of a dream man was Thornton Wilder.

  

  Lillian Gish
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.

  

  Edward Irving
  • Truth
  • Pride
  • Ignorance

• A true noun, an isolated thing, does not exit in nature. Things are only the terminal points, or rather the meeting points of actions, cross sections cut through actions, snapshots. Neither can a pure verb, an abstract motion, be possible in nature. The eye sees noun and verb as one, things in motion, motion in things.

  

  Ernest Fenollosa
  • Action
  • Eye
  • Cutting

• I don't want to feel like I'm stuck doing one-stock performances.

  

  Mark Ruffalo
  • Stock

• Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • God
  • Live
  • Song

• A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Good
  • Community
  • Value

• My biggest problem is retaining the exact information.

  

  David Cross