David Sedaris Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.
-
Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
-
Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage.
-
I want to get people to connect to the outdoors.
-
My main concern is meeting with public because my main commitment, main interest is promotion of human value, human affection, compassion and religious harmony.
-
I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.
-
Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.
-
I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.
-
I look a lot like my father and his mother.
-
Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
-
I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.
-
When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
-
I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see.
-
Acting is a form of confusion.
-
Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.
-
The understanding of art depends finally upon one's willingness to extend one's humanity and one's knowledge of human life.
-
Moving to L.A. when I was 11 was when my entrepreneurialism started because it's the land of the American dream.
-
I loved English at school and realised I would enjoy studying plays. I got into Royal Holloway. They had a little studio theatre where we put on plays, and that's what I realised I wanted to do. So from there, I went to the Old Vic theatre school to learn how to do it properly.
-
If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.
-
No one should expect the value of their house to appreciate quickly - counting on your home to be a significant part of your retirement saving isn't a winning strategy - but it is reasonable to expect that prices generally will rise with at least the rate of inflation for some time to come.
-
Picasso is still influencing me. Of course, I haven't got that kind of energy, or skill.
-
In a capitalist society, persons who create capital, like Michael Eisner, are given the staggering rewards.
-
I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything.
