David Means Quotes
A few days after 9/11, I put the old cassette of 'Born in the U.S.A.,' twisted and worn, on the car deck as I drove past West Point, across the Bear Mountain Bridge, along the Hudson River. It was the perfect moment to hear it.David Means
Quotes to Explore
-
My mom was Jewish, so some would call me Jewish.
Nathan Lane -
I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.
Vic Tayback -
I've been married twice. Most women would rather not be married to a traveling blues singer.
B. B. King -
You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.
Wayne Rogers -
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
Walter Scott -
An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
Cameron Mackintosh
-
When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion.
Carl Hiaasen -
The 24% unemployment reached at the depths of the Great Depression was no picnic.
Barry Eichengreen -
Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
Wayne Rooney -
Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
Olivia Munn -
Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
Nastassja Kinski -
I got a cold feeling toward religion in general. I don't think God would want to separate families.
Ja Rule
-
Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.
Victor Garber -
The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
Walter Pater -
Fortified plant-based milks are delicious and contain all the calcium, protein, and vitamin D of dairy products but with none of the cholesterol, lactose, hormones, or cruelty found in cow's milk.
Ingrid Newkirk -
What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
Rahm Emanuel -
People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.
Victoria Wood -
'Holy Smoke' is very brave because I don't think it's easy to watch.
Kate Winslet
-
I am deeply romantic and a genuine yet complex person.
Jiah Khan -
She looked at him, and oh, the weariness to her, of the effort to understand another language, the weariness of hearing him, attending to him, making out who he was, as he stood there fair-bearded and alien, looking at her. She knew something of him, of his eyes. But she could not grasp him. She closed her eyes.
D. H. Lawrence -
Trying to talk through and figure out new answers really helps me figure out more about what I'm doing - and what we're all doing.
Emily Barton -
People like Eliot because he's a fighter, not a quitter, ... If Mr. Weld thinks Eliot was too tough on corporate crooks, he is out of touch. If he thinks New Yorkers want a patsy for governor, he's wrong.
Eliot Spitzer -
In the trunk of her car, my mother used to keep a collapsible easel, a clutch of brushes, a little wooden case stocked with tubes of paint, and, tucked into the spare-tire well, one of my father's old, tobacco-stained shirts, for a smock.
Jill Lepore -
A few days after 9/11, I put the old cassette of 'Born in the U.S.A.,' twisted and worn, on the car deck as I drove past West Point, across the Bear Mountain Bridge, along the Hudson River. It was the perfect moment to hear it.
David Means