David Sanborn Quotes
If you're playing with somebody from another idiom, you can't react to them in the same way that you react to somebody that is closer to your idiom. You don't fall into the same habits. You find a new way of communicating.
Quotes to Explore
-
People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
-
What I want is for people to really grab hold of language and not be nervous about it. 'The Word Spy' is all about diving in and playing with words.
-
We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
-
I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
-
I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
-
I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
-
With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.
-
Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
-
I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
-
If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
-
I was writing a lot even as a kid.
-
There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
-
The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
-
I love going to my supermarket. Sounds so rock 'n' roll, eh?
-
In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.
-
There's something universal about illness... Whether you like it, at some level all patients are saying, 'Daddy, Mommy, help me, tell me it's going to be alright.'
-
I am so romantic about Gypsies. They're not allowed to do anything until they get married. So they all get married really young, at sixteen.
-
I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - but I had to learn how to write in a different way to write sequential art for a graphic novel. It's been an interesting transition.
-
A gift isn't a gift unless it has meaning. Just giving things to people, especially children, create the expectation of more things.
-
The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. On the state of British politics.
-
Tears fall in my heart like the rain on the town.
-
But if we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain. Theology says to you in effect, 'Admit God and with Him the risk of a few miracles, and I in return will ratify your faith in uniformity as regards the overwhelming majority of events.
-
Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.
-
If you're playing with somebody from another idiom, you can't react to them in the same way that you react to somebody that is closer to your idiom. You don't fall into the same habits. You find a new way of communicating.
