David Spade Quotes

I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.

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• I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • World
  • Different
  • Long

• A rich poet from Harvard has no sense in his mind, except the aesthetic.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Mind
  • Rich
  • Aesthetic

• I have to have a cheat day. I know when I'm being good all week long that come Sunday, I'm going to lie by the pool, have a drink, and eat some pizza.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Good
  • Long
  • Day

• I never wanted to be a public intellectual or a talking head.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • Talking
  • Head
  • Intellectual

• Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
  • Advice
  • Wall

• While I was growing up all over, in all my different schools, I was always doing theater, auditioning for plays.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Up
  • Different
  • Growing

• My theory about why Hemingway killed himself is that he heard his own voice; that he reached the point where he couldn't write without feeling he was repeating himself. That's the worst thing that can happen to a writer.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Why
  • Feeling
  • Voice

• Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • People
  • Love
  • Society

• The black masses must demand and refuse to accept nothing less than that proportionate percentage of the political spoils such as jobs, elective offices and appointments... They must reject the shameful racial tokenism that characterizes the political life of America today.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • Life
  • America
  • Today

• There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• There are things greater than our wisdom, beyond our justice. The right and wrong of this we cannot say, and it is not for us to judge.

  

  Jack London
  • Wisdom
  • Justice
  • Judge

• Fair Elphin, cease your lament! Swearing profits no-one. It is not evil to hope Nor does any man see what supports him, Not an empty treasure is the prayer of Cynllo, Nor does God break his promise.

  

  Taliesin
  • God
  • Hope
  • Evil

• For some we loved, the loveliest and the best That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest, Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before, And one by one crept silently to rest.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Time
  • Rest
  • Drunk

• There is a quality of life which lies always beyond the mere fact of life; and when we include the quality in the fact, there is still omitted the quality of the quality.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Lies

• A death-bed ’s a detector of the heart.

  

  Edward Young
  • Heart
  • Death

• The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed … Now come the facts to summon us to reflect. They tell us in terribly harsh language that a civilization which develops only on its material side, and not in the sphere of the spirit … heads for disaster.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Balance

• What I get really excited about are movies that I connect with emotionally. 'Deliverance' was on TV, and they don't really make movies like that anymore, just simple and scary. The truly scary thing is, 'I'm going to threaten your life, I'm going to threaten the people you love. What are you going to do about it?'

  

  Katie Aselton
  • People
  • Life
  • Simple

• I work hard, whether it comes to writing for my own project or another artist.

  

  Benji Hughes
  • Work
  • Writing

• Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.

  

  James Comey
  • World
  • Important
  • Long

• The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there.

  

  Kurt Vonnegut

• I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Good
  • Music
  • Free

• It should now be clear why the method of Philosophy is so different from that of the natural sciences. Experiments are not made, because they would be utterly useless.

  

  Charles D. Broad
  • Different
  • Why

• You are far more than your personality, more than your habits, more than your achievements. You are an infinitely complex human being with stories and myths and dreams- and ambitions of cosmic proportions. Don't waste time underestimating yourself. Dream big... Use the energy of your archetype to express the true reason you were born. Life was never meant to be safe. It was meant to be lived right to the end.

  

  Caroline Myss
  • Dream
  • Personality
  • Ambition

• I have no stories to sell. A lot of my relationships are with civilians, and no one wants to hear about those.

  

  David Spade