David M. Kelley Quotes

The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.

David M. Kelley

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• I went to a Steiner School, which is very small and nurturing and creative, so I felt like I was in an environment where I could mature. There was less of the clique-y stuff, which can really make high school a living hell for a lot of people, going on, so I was very similar then to who I am now. I'm still a dork.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • School
  • Small
  • Environment

• I was doing those roles on ABC Family late in the year, and at the same time, I was auditioning for 'Galavant.' But 'Galavant' was quite a wide casting call. I wasn't recommended or anything. It just kind of happened.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Time
  • Family
  • Year

• When public officials turn to financial gain for official acts, we have no choice but to prosecute.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Financial
  • Choice
  • Turn

• I have one. I may get another during the off-season, I might get my son's name but I'm not sure yet. The one I have is my Hebrew name, which I share with my grandfather, and it's not the best tattoo.

  

  Adam Pally
  • May
  • Best
  • Son

• The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Free
  • Giving
  • Woman

• Contrary to all the blather we here about the unique goodness of the American people or our religious heritage or anything else, the one thing that set this country apart from all others was the Bill of Rights.

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Country
  • American

• I'm just very pleased and thankful that there was a receptive audience of people that I was able to connect with.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • People
  • Audience
  • Thankful

• Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Past
  • Now
  • Alchemy

• You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.

  

  KaDee Strickland
  • Believe
  • Human
  • I Believe

• My goal is to bridge the gap between social media and traditional media.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Goal
  • Media
  • Bridge

• Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing?

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Elegance
  • Forgetting

• Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.

  

  Olivier Sarkozy
  • Problem
  • Fool
  • Debt

• It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Black
  • You
  • Poor

• I was never much of a singer. I was terrible. It's embarrassing: I was trying to sound like everybody else. I went through a big Cure phase, so I was trying to do that kind of dramatic voice.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Trying
  • Voice
  • Sound

• As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Fun
  • Winning
  • Athlete

• I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Up
  • Work
  • Real

• An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour in a violin lesson in Palestine is an hour away from violence, is an hour away from fundamentalism.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Violence
  • Child

• A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Money
  • Man
  • Funny

• 'By learning to yield to the loving authority... of his parents, a child learns to submit to other forms of authority which will confront him later in his life - his teachers, school principal, police, neighbors and employers.'

  

  James Dobson
  • Life
  • School
  • Parents

• I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Age
  • Wisdom
  • Looks

• I now find peace in the realization that countless potential masterpieces happen each moment the world over and go unphotographed. The world owes a great debt to all those who have, from a state of exceptional awareness, preserved stillness for us to hold.

  

  Dan Winters
  • World
  • Moment
  • Debt

• I do think that having the villain be a woman is just as feminine, because we're not just saying, 'Women are wonderful and made of marshmallows,' but women can be anything. They can be amazing superheroes, or they can be dastardly villains, and everything in between.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Women
  • Amazing
  • Woman

• Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Respect
  • Discipline
  • Fruit

• The profession of being a creative thinker is not so obvious.

  

  David M. Kelley