David Crystal Quotes

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• I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Want
  • Theater
  • Direct

• I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
  • Women
  • Fun

• I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Character
  • Reading
  • Moment

• R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Been
  • Nobody
  • Through

• A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.

  

  Manfred Eigen
  • Path
  • Birth
  • Theory

• Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Physics
  • Structure
  • Planned

• One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Party
  • Tea
  • Conservative

• All things can corrupt when minds are prone to evil.

  

  Ovid
  • Evil
  • All Things
  • Corrupt

• One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Acting

• There is no more apartheid in South Africa than in the United States.

  

  Malcolm X
  • More
  • Africa
  • South Africa

• Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • World
  • You
  • Language

• I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Important
  • War
  • America

• When we live in a world that is very unjust, you have to be a dissident.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • World
  • Live
  • You

• I promised myself a long time ago that I would lead an interesting life.

  

  Sacheen Littlefeather
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• You never get the Shakespeares right. It's not possible.

  

  Jack O'Brien
  • You
  • Right
  • Possible

• The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City they always make it better or worse than real life and I am actually saying that in a joking way.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Life
  • Joke
  • TV Series

• Sequels are desperate.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Desperate
  • Sequels

• You tend to compose things more in the middle of frame in 3-D than you would in a conventional frame. You can really see composition in 2-D but in 3-D your composition is much more complex. Everything has to be artificially enhanced. But you do gain something else with 3-D: you have a sense of space and heightened reality.

  

  Caleb Deschanel
  • Reality
  • Space
  • Frame

• If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Magic

• I really hate being sick. It seems inevitable that at one point, one of these predicted epidemics is going to be real. So often they come up, and there's people like me that are freaked out, and the majority of people are just like, "You're being idiots, this happens every other year."

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• For the first time people in the south stopped calling for separation, raised the national flag and demanded an end to the regime. It's been truly historic. The country is united in its aim to rid itself of the regime through public vigils and rallies, civil disobedience and slogans instead of tear gas and bullets.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Time
  • Country

• When I was in the White House, I was confronted with the challenge of the Cold War. Both the Soviet Union and I had 30,000 nuclear weapons that could destroy the entire earth and I had to maintain the peace.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Challenge
  • White House
  • Cold War

• The guilty one is not the person who has committed the sin, but the person who has created the shadow.

  

  Steve Mann
  • Shadow
  • Sin
  • Guilty

• Online, you show how brilliant you are by manipulating the language of the Internet.

  

  David Crystal