David Duchovny Quotes
I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.
Quotes to Explore
-
Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
-
I've never quite worked out how to do holidays. I've got a house in France which I suppose is a kind of holiday house. But it's really only so I can go on drawing when I get there. I'm never far away from the feeling that I want to be getting on with something.
-
Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?
-
Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
-
I have played cricket on my own terms.
-
I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
-
I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
-
The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
-
I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'
-
Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
-
It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.
-
I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
-
I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
-
As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
-
It's not just that individuals have lost faith in the integrity of their leaders, it's that they no longer believe society's most powerful institutions are acting in their interests.
-
I like the idea of growing old gracefully and full of wrinkles... like Audrey Hepburn.
-
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
-
If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
-
I don't think I'm conscious of most of the things I've drawn from football, because they're so ingrained in me now... understanding that the discipline and the routine and the regimentation to be successful.
-
The first discipline modernity’s originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.
-
When every asana is multi-petaled, why do you make it single petaled?
-
I still get the jitters every time I start a new job! I love it - makes you feel alive.
-
The marriage of a man and woman is the most enduring human institution, honored in all cultures and by every religious faith. It's in this institution that children are meant to be nurtured. We know this after thousands of years of human experience.
-
I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.
