David Letterman Quotes
President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind?
Quotes to Explore
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The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.
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Drawing is not only a way to come up with pictures: drawing is a way to educate your eye to understand visual information, organizing it into a more hierarchical way, a more economical way. When you see something, if you draw often and frequently, you examine a room very differently.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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To have a songwriter that wrote so specifically what I felt to be true... I've never been much of an actor either. If something is real for me, then I can do it.
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When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
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Tone is somewhat totalising in that, once I locate it, it tells me what kind of syntax to use, what word choices to make, how much white space to leave on the page, what sentence length, what the rhythmic patterning will be. If I can't find the tone, I sometimes try narrating through the point of view of someone else.
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A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.
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My big love was the Beatles. I was more into music.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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I'm an actor. That's what I'm gifted at. It's what makes me breathe.
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An Englishman never enjoys himself, except for a noble purpose.
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Even the weakest disputant is made so conceited by what he calls religion, as to think himself wiser than the wisest who think differently from him.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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I was always a fan of the game, and I wouldn't have taken this job if I wasn't a fan of the game.
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Hanging out with my girlfriends is my sanity saver. We go out for a bad chick flick and dinner. I suggest you break free from the guys, see a really silly, girly movie, and get a little something to eat afterwards. It feels like a treat.
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I was never very happy with performing; it didn't turn me on much.
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Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities.
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I answer two or three letters a day. I'm just not the he-has-a-secretary kind of guy.
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Stubbornness and ignorance and determination are a very fine line from each other. I'm a very stubborn person, but not so stubborn that I can't learn new things and meet new people, but I have a one-track mind.
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President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind?
