David Farr Quotes

I love telling stories. I don't really think in terms of clear 'aims.'

David Farr

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• I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Girl
  • Very
  • Starbucks

• There were times when I was so sick of talking about the Bible.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Bible
  • Sick
  • Talking

• It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Political
  • Baseball

• Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Children
  • Parents

• It's because we are so flooded with American culture that we're startled when we see ourselves up there on the screen.

  

  Yahoo Serious
  • Up
  • American
  • Culture

• Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Political
  • Practice
  • Doctor

• The Royal Society view is completely apolitical: it will judge anything based on the evidence. One of the big strengths of the Society is that is it widely perceived as impartial and above the fray. We'd like to make sure it stays that way.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Society
  • Judge
  • View

• I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we're shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration to private expeditions.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Believe
  • Space
  • Exploration

• You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Up
  • Star
  • Write

• What is this thing called love? This funny thing called love? Just who can solve this mystery? Why should it make a fool of me?

  

  Cole Porter
  • Why
  • Funny
  • Fool

• A wrongness persisted, a sense of aberration, some factor not quite right, the feeling of a corner. But Boone could not pin it down; there seemed no way to reach it.

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Feeling

• Coulter: Every presidential assassination or attempted presidential assassination was committed by some sort of left-wing loon, communist, anarchist, communitarians, yes they were or they had no politics at all. Behar: The homegrown terrorists are also another group we have to worry about here. Coulter: Okay but they're all liberals.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Worry
  • Presidential

• I suppose writing nonfiction did prepare me for writing fiction. Whenever you write anything, you're honing your skills for writing anything else.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Writing

• Partnering with EA Sports and being on the cover of 'NCAA 10 is' very exciting. And to be on the list of guys who have been on the cover before me is exciting.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Sports

• I love cakes. Chocolate and coconut cakes. I love that combination!

  

  Adriana Lima
  • Chocolate

• The Joker that Christopher Nolan created in 'The Dark Knight' had the scar across his mouth, and the first time you heard his explanation for it, he makes you believe that's how he got it. But then you get into the film, and every time he talks about his scar, it's a totally different story.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Different

• I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.

  

  David Hyde Pierce
  • Up
  • Time
  • Remember

• Our country needs a new generation of leadership, and I believe that Marco Rubio presents this nation with the greatest possibilities and opportunities to meet the challenges of the next generation.

  

  Cory Gardner
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Leadership

• I use colors that have already been experienced through the light of day and through the state of mind of the total man. In other words, my colors are not colors that are laboratory tools which are isolated from all accidentals or impurities so that they have a specified identity or purity.

  

  Mark Rothko
  • Mind
  • Words
  • Light

• Hello Fry, it's a ... *stops mid-sentence, throws a D20 and a D6* pleasure to meet you.

  

  Gary Gygax

• You have to have a thin skin. As a creative person, you have to. You can't get a thick skin.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Creative Person
  • Thin skin

• When we come together and appreciate each other, that's always a positive thing; a step in the right direction. That is what the NAACP Image Awards do. If we can just come together and love each other, that's important. I do feel like there's a lack of love but oddly enough, we blame the lack of love on other people not loving and appreciating our accomplishments. But the real reality is we haven't loved and appreciated our own accomplishments.

  

  Ernie Hudson
  • Love
  • Step
  • Awards

• If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between classes. Fruit is a very good snack in general.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Good
  • Workout

• I love telling stories. I don't really think in terms of clear 'aims.'

  

  David Farr