David Nail Quotes

Now just the thought of eating ice cream puts pounds on me.

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• I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Guy
  • Best
  • Looking

• I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think that art should be for everyone. And people should be moved by it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Art
  • College

• Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Positive
  • Follow
  • Assume

• Pushing the boundaries of polite society does not just fall under the purview of crime fiction authors.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Society
  • Fall
  • Crime

• When we were growing up, women in their late 40s generally didn't dye their hair.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Up
  • Women
  • Growing

• People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I think the computer is a hindrance to good writing because it is so tempting to leave what you've written. If you use a typewriter, you must retype if you make a mistake, and thus, you must re-examine every word.

  

  Edith Pearlman
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Mistake

• I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Music
  • Like
  • Passions

• I've been thinking about Jesus. Don't you find it a bit strange that, since He was living with His family and all, He up and left them just when they needed him most?

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Family

• The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Age
  • Youth
  • Arrogance

• Nothing, literally nothing, makes me feel like I'm back to my body more than Pilates.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Body

• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Life
  • Society
  • Free

• I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • People
  • Think
  • Science

• I would definitely love to be a parent.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Love
  • Parent
  • Definitely

• With just one polka dot, nothing can be achieved. In the universe, there is the sun, the moon, the earth, and hundreds of millions of stars. All of us live in the unfathomable mystery and infinitude of the universe. Pursuing 'philosophy of the universe' through art under such circumstances has led me to what I call 'stereotypical repetition.'

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Live
  • Art
  • Earth

• Since I was very young, probably two or three, I had really good memorization skills. I would memorize stuff from TV and perform it for my family. I was the little performer for most of my early life. So eventually, my mom caught onto that and thought I might want to get into acting.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• Postremo nemo aegrotus quidquam somniat tam infandum, quod non aliquis dicat philosophus.

  

  Marcus Terentius Varro

• Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Wisdom
  • Ignorance

• I like the energy of doing things fast. We shot 'Starred Up' in just four weeks, and we edited it in four weeks.

  

  David MacKenzie
  • Up
  • Energy

• Inability to make decisions is one of the principal reasons executives fail. Deficiency in decision-making ranks much higher than lack of specific knowledge or technical know-how as an indicator of leadership failure.

  

  John C. Maxwell
  • Knowledge
  • Decision
  • Failure

• Outrage has no time for dialogue, and it won’t be distracted by nuance or even truth.

  

  Ed Stetzer
  • Truth
  • Dialogue
  • Distracted

• I'm probably more of a stand-up comedian than an actor.

  

  Kevin Nealon
  • Up

• Surely there are more levels of organization between human ethology and DNA than there are between DNA and quantum electrodynamics, and each level can require a whole new conceptual structure.

  

  Philip Warren Anderson
  • Organization

• Now just the thought of eating ice cream puts pounds on me.

  

  David Nail