David Shields Quotes

The individual has now risen to the level of a mini-government or mini-corporation. Via YouTube and Twitter, each of us is our own mini-network.

David Shields

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• I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Want
  • Know
  • Alone

• I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Song
  • Words

• It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

  

  Man Ray
  • Never
  • Dreams
  • Determination

• What I tend to get from America is very enthusiastic letters and e-mail from librarians and schoolteachers, the gatekeepers, though I hesitate to use that word. I've never been a huge seller.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • America
  • Never
  • Enthusiastic

• I think the over-militarization of local police forces is also true of the over-militarization of the federal government, so I don't really run and hide from the comment that I think there are 48 federal agencies that have SWAT teams.

  

  Rand Paul
  • True
  • Think
  • Government

• When I was in first grade, some psychologist told my mom if I didn't go to graduate school, she basically failed as a parent, because I had the aptitude to do it. Which is so dumb. Huge pressure!

  

  Cam
  • School
  • She
  • Mom

• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet. There is so much life underneath the water that we don't know about. I would love to check out the bottom of the ocean to see what's going on down there.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Life
  • Know
  • Ocean

• I don't know if my work is a concerted effort to make kids sad! But life and death go hand in hand. It's our condition as human beings.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Life
  • Work
  • Kids

• I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Game
  • Thought
  • Common Sense

• But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Work
  • Men
  • Hands

• Right at the start, when I was about 13 or 14, I only had an Amiga 500 Plus running a bit of tracker software called OctaMED. My brother was big into his computers, and when he moved up to a proper PC, I took charge of the Amiga.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Up
  • Running
  • Brother

• Oh, I always think everyone feels left out.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Think
  • Always
  • Everyone

• 'The Shining' scares me so much.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Me
  • Shining
  • Scares

• I don't want my children to ever think that food is taboo.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Children
  • Want
  • Food

• I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Up
  • Think
  • Generation

• When I fly in a helicopter, I insist there be two sets of controls, one for me in case something happens to the pilot. I'm no expert, but I know enough to at least get the thing on the ground. Nothing scares me like the thought of not being in control.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Control
  • Thought
  • Fly

• New Mexico is 2-to-1 Democrat. I got elected as a Republican. I think I did a great job of showing people that government doesn't have to spend money to make you happy, that government really needs to be providing a level playing field.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Great
  • Money

• I have no illusions concerning the precarious status of my tales and do not expect to become a serious competitor of my favorite weird authors.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Serious
  • Weird
  • Expect

• But a pin lies in wait for every bubble. And when the two eventually meet, a new wave of investors learns some very old lessons: First, many in Wall Street - a community in which quality control is not prized - will sell investors anything they will buy. Second, speculation is most dangerous when it looks easiest.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Community
  • Control
  • Quality

• To the Constitution of the United States the term SOVEREIGN, is totally unknown.

  

  James Wilson
  • Unknown

• Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness;-this is marriage; and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Friends
  • Marriage
  • Souls

• This is your moment, and every single minute you spend tryin' to hold on to it, cuz you may never get it again; so while you're in it try to get as much shit as you can and when your run is over just admit when it's at its end.

  

  Eminem
  • May
  • Single

• Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.

  

  Eugen Herrigel
  • Control
  • Artist
  • Considers

• The individual has now risen to the level of a mini-government or mini-corporation. Via YouTube and Twitter, each of us is our own mini-network.

  

  David Shields