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

• Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • Men
  • Strong

• 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

• I had enormous self-image, problems and very low self-esteem, which I hid behind obsessive writing and performing. It's exactly what I do now except I enjoy it now. I'm not driven like I was in my twenties. I was driven to get through life very quickly.

  

  David Bowie
  • Writing
  • Problem
  • Enjoy

• Forget about style; worry about results.

  

  Bobby Orr
  • Style
  • Worry

• People make one happy, not houses.

  

  Elizabeth Aston
  • People
  • Happy
  • Houses

• Any sauce whatsoever should be smooth, light (without being liquid), glossy to the eye, and decided in taste. When these conditions are fulfilled, it is always easy to digest, even for tired stomachs.

  

  Auguste Escoffier
  • Light
  • Tired

• It's, I mean, for me, it's the same as training with my crewmembers. We share the same first part of the flight. We all go together. It's the most critical part of the flight, the ascent.

  

  Philippe Perrin
  • Together
  • Training

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

  

  David Lynch The Platters