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
  • School

• 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

• You look at Gone With the Wind, how right Vivian Leigh was for that. Don't know if that would happen today.

  

  Kelly Lynch
  • Today
  • Wind

• I decided right away that whomever was going to advise me had to be fundamentally interested in music. This protected me from the skullduggery common to the music industry then and that still exists today. Of course, using this method meant that some things we didn't know and just had to learn how to do it together.

  

  Johnny Mathis
  • Music
  • Together
  • Today

• It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients.

  

  Aristotle
  • Business
  • Patients
  • Physicians

• I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'

  

  Jill Abramson

• I see that happening with hip hop purists now. Where you have an artist like a Kendrick [Lamar] or a Drake, who are really trying different things emotionally, different things musically, and on a mainstream level. And you have underground hip hop fans dissing it, for the simple fact that it's mainstream - not because what they're doing is whack, or what they're doing is not sincere.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Simple

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

  

  David Lynch The Platters