Saul David Quotes

Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about.

Saul David

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• At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • College
  • Language
  • Poet

• My purpose as a writer is to communicate in such a way as to challenge the thinking of readers and touch their hearts.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • Thinking
  • Purpose
  • Challenge

• Dark chocolate, and salt and vinegar chips are my weakness - but not together.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Together
  • Dark
  • Chocolate

• It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Faith
  • Vision
  • Courage

• Social media is interesting. It helps me connect with fans. It's immediate. It's a big part of my touring business - getting the word out via Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Business
  • Interesting
  • Social Media

• I make an awesome soup with coconut milk and shrimps; it takes me five hours to prepare the whole thing. It does become very spicy, but you can definitely taste all the ingredients.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Awesome
  • Prepare
  • Soup

• I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Why
  • Understanding
  • Progress

• Cancer stops you in your tracks. It really makes you think about what's important. In a second, life can change. Don't ever forget to say thank you for love and family. What good is your success without them?

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Life
  • Important
  • Think

• To be honest, after you've crossed the line at the Olympic Games, it is bedlam for the next, about, five or six hours. Media, press conference, dope control - you might get some food if you're lucky. You might see family if you're lucky.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Family
  • Food
  • Control

• When you have a magazine like 'Vogue,' you know a lot of kids are going to follow your pictures.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Kids
  • Know
  • Pictures

• Money is not the most important thing, but when you need it, there are few substitutes. So while I like the things money can buy, I love what money won't buy. It bought me a house but it won't buy me a home. It would buy me a companion but it won't buy me a friend.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Important
  • Money
  • Love

• There are so many things to think about when you make an album. Like, who am I trying to impress? Am I going to get respect, critical acclaim? Or am I going to sell lots of records?

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Respect

• When my soul was in the lost-and-found You came along to claim it.

  

  Carole King
  • Soul
  • Song
  • Lost

• I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt.

  

  Len Wein
  • Find
  • Editors
  • Clue

• Then there were things-- epic, terrible things-- that he didn't tell her but skirted around, like caressing the edges of a wound, hesitant, testing for pain.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Pain
  • Terrible
  • Epic

• Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Country
  • College
  • Football

• Self-confidence comes naturally when your inner life and your outer life are in harmony.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Confidence
  • Self

• People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Men

• Human lives seldom conform to the conventions of fiction. Chekhov says that it is in the beginnings and endings of stories that we are most tempted to lie. I know what he means, and I agree.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Human
  • Fiction
  • Conventions

• The first act of insight is throw away the labels. In fiction, while we do not necessarily write about ourselves, we write out of ourselves, using ourselves; what we learn from, what we are sensitive to, what we feel strongly about--these become our characters and go to make our plots. Characters in fiction are conceived from within, and they have, accordingly, their own interior life; they are individuals every time.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Feels

• I did a voice for this video game called 'Fallout 3,' and that was really fun. I had a great time, especially since I could show up in PJs and not have to worry about how I looked.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• The real scientific study of the distribution of wealth has, we must confess, scarcely begun. The conventional academic study of the so-called theory of distribution into rent, interest, wages, and profits is only remotely related to the subject. This subject, the causes and cures for the actual distribution of capital and income among real persons, is one of the many now in need of our best efforts as scientific students of society.

  

  Irving Fisher
  • Real
  • Society
  • Science

• Those who read the fiction assume that, because I'm also a historian, I know what I'm talking about.

  

  Saul David
  • Talking
  • Fiction
  • Historian