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

• 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

• 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

• Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Age

• We didn't go to the moon to explore or because it was in our DNA or because we're Americans. We went because we were at war and we felt a threat.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • War
  • Moon
  • Explore

• If I had a do over, I'd indubitably start investing in startups earlier in life!

  

  David Cohen
  • Life

• But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Evil
  • Lie
  • Intents

• Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • World
  • Different
  • Nature

• Tennis is my job, but it's not my life.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Jobs
  • Tennis

• I like having pairs of characters to play off each other. I love drawing Batman, but he's more fun with Robin. Batman charges ahead, Robin jumps off the walls. It's fun showing that contrast.

  

  Jim Lee
  • Fun
  • Drawing
  • Batman

• If a slave were to raise his voice to his master, he risked all manner of punishment. Yet what was possible in many circumstances was to lift one's voice in song. This was a major ingredient in what is now known as blues and gospel. Slaves may have been regarded as subhuman by their cruel captors, but through music, they were proud and dignified.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Song
  • Proud
  • Circumstances

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

  

  David Spade