David L. Wolper Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.
-
When I sing, people shut up.
-
If something is personal to you, you are much more likely to act.
-
I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more,' but it's only the moment.
-
The ego being shattered is not what frightens me - that can be useful for writing - but the ego being inflated is sort of like it dying of gout.
-
When I was in high school I was 250 pounds.
-
I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles.
-
Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.
-
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
-
I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer.
-
Under the veneer of Westernization, the cultures of the Indian world - which have existed for 30,000 years! - continue to live. Sometimes in a magical way, sometimes in the shadows.
-
One of the greatest fears of the Arab world is a direct conflict between Israel and the Islamic State.
-
My career is my girlfriend.
-
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
-
When I look at my daughter, who's 24, she is much more confident than I ever was and her expectations are higher. But I worry that there is a backlash brewing against progress on equality.
-
Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.
-
I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.
-
Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.
-
Write to one person, not a million.
-
Not only are Christians writing about Jesus, but also Communists, Jews, atheists and agnostics are taking up their pens to paint a portrait of Jesus.
-
A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.
-
In some sense our aim ought to be to convert the school from an academic institution into an intellectual one. That shift in the culture of schooling would represent a profound shift in emphasis and in direction.
-
In medicine, there's a fairly large but still finite body of knowledge that you need at hand for most of your daily work. It takes a few years to learn it, but once it's there, it's there. With writing, on the other hand, every new book - indeed, every new story - is a fresh and terrifying reinvention of everything.
-
I don't call four hours a miniseries.
