David Lynch Quotes

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David Lynch The Platters

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• I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Love
  • Wife
  • Wonderfully

• Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Think
  • Difficult
  • Pigs

• I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Today
  • Same
  • Saying

• I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Mother

• China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Party
  • Years
  • Born

• There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Author
  • Changes
  • Alive

• Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • World
  • Man
  • Black

• I like to always have humour in whatever I do.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Like
  • Always
  • Humour

• There are many stressed single parents who may be working two jobs in order to keep the family together.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • Family
  • May
  • Together

• The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Important
  • Question
  • Study

• I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • God
  • Vessel
  • Draft

• When I planned to ski Everest, the first thing I faced was, 'How can I return alive?' All the preparation and training was based on this question. But the more I prepared, I knew the chance of survival was very slim. Nobody in the world had done this before, so I told myself that I must face death. Otherwise, I am not eligible.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • World
  • Done
  • Death

• Time is not eternal but was created by God at the beginning.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Time
  • God
  • Beginning

• Beirut turned into a war zone in a matter of hours. We were stuck at home, the roads were blocked.

  

  Nadine Labaki
  • Home
  • War
  • Roads

• Life is full of surprises: new opportunities come up; that's part of the fun - the adventure of life. The thing is, chaos doesn't allow us to enjoy the adventure.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag- It's so elegant So intelligent

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Intelligent

• And now, Uastis, get up. This room is architecturally designed to please the eye, and your present position mars it for me.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Up
  • Present

• 'I distrusted him from the start! Still, who could imagine such protean depravity?' Bunderwal, the supercargo, concurred. 'Cugel, while plausible, nonetheless is a bit of a scoundrel.'

  

  Jack Vance

• I love New York! It's probably my favorite city in the entire world.

  

  Brad Goreski
  • World
  • City

• It's important to take time off because it's a long journey this life, and I want to be singing in 30 years' time. You see a lot of artists who get caught up in the here and now, and they just burn themselves out, and I kind of did that myself with my third album.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I have gone through a period of seeking to understand what or how strong or what are the connections I have to God.

  

  Peter Jennings
  • God
  • Strong
  • Period

• I don't know why we play better on the road. I really don't. Chalk it up to coincidence, I guess. I don't think we care where we play, which is a good thing. But you'd like to see our home record be a little better than it is.

  

  Aaron John Boone
  • Up
  • Good
  • Why

• When you know that you have to flirt with someone, when you have a date or that you're looking for someone to love or for someone to love you back, you always try to show something better than yourself. Because you want to show off, obviously, you want to show the best side of you. Instead, when you have nothing to lose, you're just yourself. And maybe this is the best part, when another person can fall in love with you.

  

  Alessandra Mastronardi
  • Show
  • Side
  • Flirt

• Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas.

  

  David Lynch The Platters