David Herbert Donald Quotes

If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

David Herbert Donald

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• I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.

  

  Farley Mowat
  • People
  • Feel
  • Better

• I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Sorry
  • Muslim

• As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Movie
  • Start
  • Confused

• Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Saying

• There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • People
  • Word
  • Interview

• There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• With 'The Social Network,' I got into it at first because frankly I thought there was a cool courtroom drama to be had with the intellectual properties. And then what further drew me in was that the most extraordinary social networking device ever created was created by the world's most antisocial person. I liked that story.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • World
  • Cool
  • Drama

• Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Great
  • Family
  • American

• I always wear beige, black or white. For one thing I look good in them. For another, when I'm beside a star at a fitting, and she looks into the mirror, I don't want to be competing in any way.

  

  Edith Head
  • Good
  • She
  • Black

• I love men's wear.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Men
  • Love
  • I Love

• Yeah, it's a lot harder to find a musical partner than a love partner.

  

  Victoria Legrand Beach House
  • Find
  • Partner
  • Musical

• I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Me

• Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • God
  • Long
  • Free

• Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Achieve

• I'm not terribly happy about rock and roll. Certain rock music is uninspiring, numbing; it makes you feel like an idiot.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Music
  • Happy
  • Rock

• What was interesting was talking to older gay men about what it was like being gay in the Eighties.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Men
  • Interesting
  • Gay

• A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Like
  • inspirational
  • Kiss

• I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Family

• I think everybody at some point in time has thought to themselves, 'I have a really great idea for a restaurant.'

  

  Bobby Flay
  • Time
  • Great

• The rule of mosh pits, that every band preaches, is if someone falls, pick them back up. There are these little things throughout our video that leans towards the world we live in today. People who are obviously sick and tired of certain things that are going on in their life can escape from that, have a good time and leave their worries and troubles behind.

  

  Jason McCaslin Sum 41
  • Life
  • Escape
  • Video

• I tell actresses, "If you're too tall, if you're too fat, you're not going to work. I don't care how talented you are." It's a business, and sex sells.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Work
  • Business
  • Sex

• The violence of language consists in its effort to capture the ineffable and, hence, to destroy it, to seize hold of that which must remain elusive for language to operate as a living thing.

  

  Judith Butler
  • Violence
  • Language
  • Destroy

• If you think about it, the historian's task is like that of the detective.

  

  David Herbert Donald