David Lipsky Quotes
One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.
Quotes to Explore
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You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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I think these people have betrayed or have forgotten their ancestors.
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I've always wanted to be Batman, but I don't naturally tend towards Batman. I tend towards Robin, but I did get to play Superman.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Accuse a person of breaking all Ten Commandments, and you've written the promo blurb for the dust cover of his tell-all memoir.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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A hard man is good to find.
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Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.
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I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
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The third-down sacks are critical ones, 'cause that's getting off the field.
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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It should be if you're a good singer and a good songwriter, you should have your spot. You get everybody trying to release the prettiest guy, but that doesn't mean they're the best artist. Most of the time the true artists are just normal old dudes.
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Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.
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So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.
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Most of my jokes are racist - usually about the Irish.
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I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
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One of the things that writing and speech can do is express what we're thinking one thought at a time.
