David Slade Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a Republican. I don't want to go to heaven and have to face my family up there and tell them I voted for a Democrat.
-
Some say that Jesus is the rock, or the anchor. I say that your friends and family are your anchor. And you can really hold their hands, not just sing about it. No disrespect to George Jones.
-
I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
-
If there is still an American dream, reading is one of the bootstraps by which we can all pull ourselves up.
-
People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.
-
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
-
I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.
-
I didn't go to the cinema a lot when I was young.
-
If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.
-
Reason gains all people by compelling none.
-
After having seen the job done on that first show of mine, I realized that I felt like I wanted to work again for a short while. Two, three years, then stop.
-
Investing in people is the single most important thing in the knowledge economy. Traditionally, wealth was defined by land and natural resources. Today the most important resources is between our ears.
-
'Jeeves,' I said, and I am free to admit that in my emotion I bleated like a lamb drawing itself to the attention of the parent sheep, 'what the dickens is all this?'
-
Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
-
Well, I never really practiced because I never had the opportunity to practice.
-
I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.
-
Until Donald Trump got to where he was, they said you'll never see a rich businessman who's never been in politics be president. I clearly was wrong about that.
-
I think I've had a very privileged life.
-
I dreamt -- marvellous error! -- that I had a beehive here inside my heart. And the golden bees were making white combs and sweet honey from my old failures.
-
We only hear questions that we are able to answer.
-
To feel nervous; to feel threatened and vulnerable and alive and engaged in that sense when interacting with someone you're really attracted to? I think that's wonderful. That's usually the best part. In fact, it's almost always downhill from there.
-
When I was a child I didn't care about getting an education, and I didn't finish high school.
-
I really appreciate gory movies.
