David F. Houston Quotes

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• You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Real
  • Art

• Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Nature
  • Space
  • Proud

• From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door.

  

  M. J. Hyland
  • Job
  • Age
  • Door

• Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.

  

  Magdalena Neuner
  • Home
  • Feeling
  • Me

• My dream was to play in good films, no matter in what country. I always waited for a decent script, and nothing has changed. I'm just sure that nothing in life is random, and I believe in the fate which guides you. Probably my starring in 'A Good Day to Die Hard' is good proof of that.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • Life
  • Good
  • Believe

• Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Trying
  • Remember
  • Mother

• One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Past
  • Always
  • Connection

• Do you know what I love about hunting? That I am no one in the woods, no one at all. I thought the animals might recognize me, but they didn't. They did not even ask me for any autographs.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Know
  • Animals
  • Recognize

• Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Time
  • Think
  • Balance

• Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Education
  • Support
  • Learning

• While I am not saying Facebook cannot be a wonderland for marketers, I am still waiting to see the proof of it, and so should every reporter.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Facebook
  • Reporter
  • Wonderland

• The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • Time
  • Change
  • Flower

• Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Done
  • History
  • Science

• So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.

  

  Aaron Ashmore
  • People
  • Many
  • Loyal

• I want people to treat me as normally as they can. Anybody who doesn't, I feel awkward with.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Want
  • Feel

• Government is the ultimate monopoly. And monopolies, as any economist will tell you, often breed complacency and a lack of innovation.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Government
  • Innovation

• Being the leader of a division is a pressure, but it's one that I feel I am ready for.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • Leader
  • Pressure
  • Division

• I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Voice
  • Internet
  • Microphone

• I would never do 'Playboy.'

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Never
  • Would
  • Playboy

• All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • War

• Man cannot live without some knowledge of the purpose of life. If he can find no purpose in life he creates one in the inevitability of death.

  

  Chester Himes
  • Life
  • Live
  • Death

• The promise of peace seems very far away, but you keep working steadily with good and uplifting attitudes, and that's sometimes tough in the environment we're in.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • Good
  • Peace
  • Environment

• If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Money
  • Individual
  • Pay

• Rice at present prices provides more food for the money than most of the other cereals.

  

  David F. Houston
  • Money
  • Food
  • Present