David Walliams Quotes
People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.
Quotes to Explore
-
We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.
-
My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
-
Sometimes 'Rookie' is written about like, 'Finally! Something for alternative girls!' and I'm like, 'No!' Obviously it's not for everyone, but I used to think that there are cheerleaders, and there are art kids.
-
It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.
-
When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
-
Every guy should be the owner of a really nice pen. When you put your thoughts down, or whenever you're going to share something with someone, it means something if it bleeds out in a nice ink.
-
As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
-
Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
-
I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
-
None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
-
Unlike President Obama, I am not afraid to state, without a wink or a nod, that the government has no right to tell us who we can marry or not marry.
-
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
-
I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
-
I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
-
Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
-
In a sense I portray myself in a very androgynous way, and I love androgyny.
-
Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
-
You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
-
The only legitimate government in the world, is the Iranian government.
-
Writers are outsiders, and usually not by their own choosing. It’s why they’re writers. If they didn’t feel alienated from human experience, they wouldn’t feel so drawn to writing to make sense of their lives. It’s not the outsider’s facility for language that makes her a writer — many a student body president or homecoming queen can turn a phrase — but her ability to howl at the moon, on the page.
-
The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has a book all at the same time. It's like that one year where you're invited to twenty weddings.
-
I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.
-
The race will find that capitalists and communists modify themselves so much during the ages that they end by being indistinguishable as democrats.
-
People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.
