David Sedaris Quotes

As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.

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• I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • World
  • Art
  • Soul

• As digital communications have multiplied, and NSA capabilities with them, the agency has shifted resources from surveillance of individual targets to the acquisition of communications on a planetary scale.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Resources
  • Digital

• Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Food
  • Human
  • Sharing

• I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Try
  • Personal

• It's always a help when you have worked with someone as you've got to know them a bit already.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Help
  • Know
  • Always

• The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Sky
  • White
  • Lake

• Once you've done one style, you leave it for a while.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Done
  • Style
  • Leave

• I don't mind running; I don't mind taking a few knocks. But hopefully, it's just not 'Sam's an action dude.' That, to me, is not what I wanted. I wanted to bring a sense of weight and emotionality of doing Australian films and bring that into a bigger blockbuster, so you're not just kind of grunting and groaning and running around.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Mind
  • Action
  • Hopefully

• It used to be you wanted to marry up.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Up
  • You
  • Used

• If you love food and you love red wine and they put you in France, you're in a good place and you're in a bad place at the same time. You have to weigh yourself every day, and you have to have an alarm number. When you get to that number, you have to start putting it in reverse.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • Good
  • Love

• I can still do clothing, movies, cartoons. I'mma get mine regardless. Whether I put an album out or not, I'm still gonna see a check.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Movies
  • I Can
  • Clothing

• A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Thinking
  • Girl
  • Stop

• We've seen a tremendous rise in the level of anti-Muslim bigotry in our society - and against minorities of all kinds - but we've also seen a tremendous rise in support.

  

  Ibrahim Hooper
  • Society
  • Support
  • Rise

• I have very real concerns about the civil liberties implications of ultimately requiring every resident to submit themselves for compulsory fingerprinting or some other biometric test.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Real
  • Very
  • Implications

• When you're someone in the media, the good thing is, I guess, that you can reach a lot of people.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • People
  • Good
  • Reach

• Assume nobody else has any idea what they're doing, either.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Doing
  • Idea
  • Nobody

• I wasn't aware that Track Records were interested in the Bonzos.

  

  Neil Innes

• We should never denigrate any other culture but rather help people to understand the relationship between their own culture and the dominant culture. When you understand another culture or language, it does not mean that you have to lose your own culture.

  

  Edward T. Hall
  • People
  • Help
  • Culture

• If word got out that anyone was moving soldiers, they could expect a tuman to turn up on the horizon. Genghis was not a man to ignore a naked challenge to his authority. The Mongol army moved and millions would die.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Die
  • Authority
  • Moved

• Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typically focuses on learning procedures to solve highly stereotyped problems. Professional mathematicians think a certain way to solve real problems, problems that can arise from the everyday world, or from science, or from within mathematics itself. The key to success in school math is to learn to think inside-the-box. In contrast, a key feature of mathematical thinking is thinking outside-the-box - a valuable ability in today's world.

  

  Keith Devlin
  • School
  • Success
  • Education

• Everyone fears rejection.

  

  Derek Jeter
  • Rejection

• The gap between ideals and actualities, between dreams and achievements, the gap that can spur strong men to increased exertions, but can break the spirit of others -- this gap is the most conspicuous, continuous land mark in American history. It is conspicuous and continuous not because Americans achieve little, but because they dream grandly. The gap is a standing reproach to Americans; but it marks them off as a special and singularly admirable community among the world's peoples.

  

  George Will
  • Men
  • Dream
  • Strong

• As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners.

  

  David Sedaris