David Crystal Quotes
Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
Quotes to Explore
-
President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
-
The doors between the old man today and the child are still open, wide open. I can stroll through my grandmother's house and know exactly where the pictures are, the furniture was, how it looked, the voice, the smells. I can move from my bed at night today to my childhood in less than a second.
-
The same liberty that protects me also protects members of the Mafia.
-
Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them.
-
My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
-
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
-
'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
-
Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
-
Speaking is physically difficult for me.
-
Anybody that's been in an election, you're always looking to get the upper hand.
-
Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
-
Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
-
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
-
I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
-
I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
-
What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
-
I must stick with Chinese language films.
-
America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
-
God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
-
There's all the difference in the world between humbly saying "I want to find more light from Scripture than we have yet had" and saying "I'm going to prove the rest of the Church wrong and do something totally new!"
-
I've learnt that if you can't get rid of something, you have to find a way to live with it.
-
In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.
-
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
-
Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
