David Lynch Quotes

I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.

David Lynch The Platters

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• Good comedy is ageless.

  

  Ted Levine
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Ageless

• I grew up in a military family. I was moved around from school to school, so people aren't always the most welcoming to new girls in school.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • People
  • Up
  • Family

• You know how in every heist movie they get past the security cameras that show the hallway leading to the diamonds by jamming the screens with a fake signal of everything looking safe and quiet? Usually a guard coughs so they don't notice the blip from switching to the bogus feed.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • Past
  • Fake

• Creating more and better jobs is how you build a strong economy.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Strong
  • Better
  • Economy

• We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Good
  • War
  • Path

• It's the subtleties of a ballad that truly make it beautiful - and it's all in the way you present it to the listener.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Beautiful
  • You
  • Present

• There's always someone in every group of friends that nobody likes.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Friends
  • Always
  • Group

• I've played Beckett. I put on in the 1950s the first Australian production of 'Waiting for Godot.' I played Estragon. The most interesting conversation I've had about Beckett was with a Dublin taxi driver.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Interesting
  • Waiting
  • First

• I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I've retained a bit of that in my adulthood.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Love
  • Fashion
  • Kid

• I did the Vines first, and then I chose Instagram because the filters were better, and you could post the best picture of yourself, which I figured would help my modeling career.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Help
  • Career
  • Best

• We’re avant-garde. It doesn’t mean we have to be unhygienic.

  

  Frances McDormand

• I swore I'd be done, and that would be the end of it. And now I am. There isn't a single place left on-world that isn't part of the Bitchun Society. There isn't a single thing left that I want any part of.

  

  Cory Doctorow
  • World
  • Done
  • Society

• Why worry? There should be laughter after pain.There should be sunshine after rain.These things have always been the same.So why worry now?

  

  Mark Knopfler Dire Straits
  • Why
  • Pain
  • Worry

• When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Emotional
  • Habit
  • Search

• Here forms, here colours, here the character of every part of the universe are concentrated to a point; and that point is so marvellous a thing … Oh! marvellous, O stupendous Necessity - by thy laws thou dost compel every effect to be the direct result of its cause, by the shortest path. These are miracles...

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Character
  • Universe
  • Path

• My entire film career's been dependent on my ability to look unattractive.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Career

• That means a lot, it goes from generation to generation, and you can't wonder why, and I think it's because it's such a good energy in it, and I think the girls and boys, they want to dress like us, and they want to sing along.

  

  Agnetha Fältskog
  • Good
  • Why
  • Energy

• Pain is knowledge rushing in to fill a gap. When you stub your toe on the foot of the bed, that was a gap in knowledge. And the pain is a lot of information really quick. That's what pain is.

  

  Jerry Seinfeld
  • Knowledge
  • Pain

• Depending on what happens with my directing career, I don't think I'll stop writing, even if I crash and burn in movies and TV. I'll go back to plays. Even if I crash and burn there, I'll write a novel. That's the great thing about writing is that you don't have to wait for people to give you permission to do it.

  

  Alan Ball
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing

• I wouldn't have launched 'Sharp Daily' without smartphones. Frankly, there's no reason for me to start another newspaper - it's a dying industry. But the smartphone is changing everything.

  

  Jimmy Lai
  • Daily
  • Dying

• Little did we know it would be watched by millions of people and break viewing records.

  

  Douglas Wilson
  • People

• It's a very dangerous and lonely thing, I imagine, to be a spy: to have friendships that are deceptions, that are not honest.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Lonely
  • Friendships

• We must reject that most dismal and fatuous notion that education is a preparation for life.

  

  Northrop Frye
  • Preparation
  • Educational
  • Notion

• I've said many, many, many unkind things about Philadelphia, and I meant every one.

  

  David Lynch The Platters