David Souter Quotes
The language of the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection of the laws did not change between 1896 and 1954, and it would be very hard to say that the obvious facts on which 'Plessy' was based had changed.
Quotes to Explore
-
That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
-
To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
-
The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
-
The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
-
I would like to champion diverse forms like graphic novels and works told in verse and diverse writers and illustrators and diverse authors as well.
-
I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
-
Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.
-
I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
-
Some people say I'm conscious, some say I'm a gangsta rapper – it's just me doing me. I'm stomping in my own lane. I'm doing what I do.
-
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
-
When no one's buying your records, it's easy to justify selling a song. But once you start selling records, you can't really justify having two songs in Cadillac commercials. It looks greedy. And it is greedy. This whole music thing should be about music.
-
I don't like a lot of frills and fusses.
-
We are human, and nothing is more interesting to us than humanity.
-
Matthew Broderick and Megan Mullally were unbelievable to work with in 'How to Succeed.'
-
Looking back on my 50-year eclectic journey in research, I am grateful that it has gone as well as it has, although still not clever enough to open the black box of enzyme structure.
-
I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
-
The morale when I came in was not the best. It was because the agency had not been valued.
-
Vacant heart, and hand, and eye,Easy live and quiet die.
-
You just activated a nuclear warhead, my friend.
-
Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness.
-
Without freedom there will be no firearms among the people; without firearms among the people there will not long be freedom. Certainly there are examples of countries where the people remain relatively free after the people have been disarmed, but there are no examples of a totalitarian state being created or existing where the people have personal arms.
-
"Sesame Street" was really the first kid's show that my dad did. He did a couple of TV specials that were targeted for kids before "Sesame Street," but really, it was, it's kind of going back to our roots, when we start to get adult. This show gets very adult sometimes, and that's because of the audience.
-
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
-
The language of the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection of the laws did not change between 1896 and 1954, and it would be very hard to say that the obvious facts on which 'Plessy' was based had changed.
