David Slade Quotes

I thought, 'Who is the first vampire ever? It's Peter Murphy!'

David Slade

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• I like to give people more than their money's worth.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Money
  • Worth

• Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Always

• The more of what our music does violates the premise of its format that it's presented in, the better. So, hearing our music in the supermarket, a Muzak version, is great.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Great
  • Music
  • Better

• The Islamic tradition does show some areas of apparent incompatibility with the goals of women in the West, and Muslims have a long way to go in their attitudes towards women. But blaming the religion is again to express an ignorance both of the religion and of the historical struggle for equality of women in Muslim societies.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Long
  • Women
  • Struggle

• Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • May
  • Deep
  • Sad

• I sure am handsome. I can't lie. This is one handsome guy.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Guy
  • Lie
  • Sure

• My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Father
  • Myself

• A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington... people who are different, who are larger than life.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Woman
  • Child
  • Treat

• Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it so that the other half may reach you.

  

  Kahlil Gibran
  • May

• C++ is in that inconvenient spot where it doesn't help make things simple enough to be truly usable for prototyping or simple GUI programming, and yet isn't the lean system programming language that C is that actively encourages you to use simple and direct constructs.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Help
  • Simple

• '(In) Shanghai, if you want some pork soup, you just turn on the tap.'

  

  Lee Hsien Loong

• I was 14. I went to see a production of 'Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris,' and when they got to that final song, 'If We Only Have Love,' it was like the top of my head had blown off.

  

  Alice Ripley
  • Song
  • Paris

• Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • Trying
  • Today
  • Game

• Head Start's ability to improve the educational skills and opportunities of Latino children will be an important component of America's future success.

  

  Joe Baca
  • Important
  • Children
  • America

• I actually read 'Wonder Woman,' and here's the thing about her: she's more of a physical presence than anything else. You don't get to really know her on the inside.

  

  Jaimie Alexander
  • She
  • Wonder

• Fashion is a logical place to start to raise awareness for sustainable causes.

  

  Jochen Zeitz
  • Fashion

• They say that life is tough enough. But I guess I like to make things difficult on myself, because I do that all the time. Every day and on purpose. That's because I believe in disrupting my comfort zone.

  

  Brian Grazer
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• If we tried to rely entirely on reason, and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse - a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • World
  • Reason
  • Belief

• I'm incredibly lucky to have the opportunity to bring Mae to work with me as I take on the guest role of 'Mary McGowan.'

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Work
  • Opportunity

• [On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• I started to study the flute in 1951. The flute has been utilized by African-American musicians as far back as the early Twenties. If you take a look at some of the old pictures of Chick Webb, then you will see the flute right there on the bandstand among the woodwinds.

  

  Yusef Lateef
  • American
  • Study
  • African-American

• That's all we writers have, anyway; our minds and imaginations. To allow censors even the tiniest space in there with us can only lead to dullness, imitation, and mediocrity.

  

  Norma Fox Mazer
  • Writers
  • Imaginations
  • Censors

• I thought, 'Who is the first vampire ever? It's Peter Murphy!'

  

  David Slade
  • Vampire