David Knopfler Quotes

I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

David Knopfler Dire Straits

• Time
• Spiritual
• Magic

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Important
  • Me
  • Vote

• Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Job
  • Health

• I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Good
  • Family
  • Interesting

• Come on... when you're running, if you see you're going to win, you're going to celebrate.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Running
  • Win
  • See

• The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Different
  • Contribution

• I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Water
  • Always
  • Drink

• When confronting most crises, whether historic or contemporary, aid agencies generally muddle along on a case-by-case basis. They weigh insufficient information, extrapolate somewhat blindly about long-term pros and cons, and reluctantly arrive at decisions meant to do the most good and the least harm.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Good
  • Long
  • Information

• I look a hundred and weigh 110 – you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.

  

  Wallis Simpson
  • See
  • England
  • Wreck

• What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • She
  • Nature
  • Blessed

• I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Way
  • Feel
  • Any

• I'm not going to be lectured by Nathan Deal, who is a former Clinton Democrat. I will stack up my conservative credentials against his any day of the week.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Up
  • Day
  • Week

• It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Marriage
  • Write
  • How

• People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Financial

• I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Actor
  • Scared
  • Vacation

• Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Deal
  • Regulations

• Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.

  

  Daisy Berkowitz
  • Band
  • Same
  • Diversity

• I come by writing dialogue fairly naturally, I've got a chatty family; I'm a bit of a voyeur, and if I'm ever in a public place, I automatically find myself listening.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Myself

• There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.

  

  D. L. Hughley
  • Great
  • Wine
  • Nothing

• When your child comes to you at a young age and declares he or she is passionate about this or that, the natural tendency for many parents, out of love, is to simply support that decision. That's the path of least resistance, but it's not necessarily the best path, in my opinion.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Parents
  • Child
  • Young

• You can only be you, and there are plenty of people out there who wouldn't have you be any other way.

  

  John Grant
  • People

• Well, you always discover a lot in the editing room. Particularly the action, because you have to over-shoot a lot and shoot an enormous amount of material because many of the sequences have to be discovered in the editing and manipulation of it.

  

  Christopher Nolan
  • Action
  • Manipulation

• Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Life
  • Death
  • Silent

• We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Home
  • Night

• I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

  

  David Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Time
  • Spiritual
  • Magic