Saul David Quotes

Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.

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• My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • May
  • Distance

• So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • May
  • Talent
  • Ability

• I literally left school and went straight into music via art college for a year, and I've been so involved in my job of writing songs that the more actively involved part became channeled into standing on the stage and saying things that way.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Music
  • Writing
  • School

• Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Think
  • Band
  • Goal

• We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Afraid
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.

  

  Jack Dee
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• I wanted to be a scientist. I did a thesis on lions. But I realised photography can show things writing can't. Lions were my professor of photography.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Writing
  • Things
  • Photography

• I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Everyone
  • London
  • Calling

• I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • American
  • Story
  • Pride

• I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Trying
  • Happy
  • Change

• There is no religion higher than truth.

  

  Helena Blavatsky
  • Truth

• We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Attention
  • Fool
  • Wavering

• All improvement in your life begins with an improvement in your mental pictures.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Life
  • Improvement

• His opinion is his opinion - and it's just that. I don't have anything negative to say about him, and I don't have anything negative to say about the situation.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Opinion
  • Situation
  • Negative

• Be more concerned about what's right rather than who's right.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Concerned

• That's one thing I don't think people consider nowadays. They want to believe in the importance of marriage, boil it down to just a signature on a legal document. But that's exactly what it is. If not, why not just get married without one?

  

  Ariel Pink
  • People
  • Believe
  • Why

• If Luna Marie is at the park, my child is not happy unless she's on the highest bar of the jungle gym or the tallest branch of a tree or jumping over the biggest, deepest hole.

  

  Constance Marie
  • She
  • Happy
  • Child

• You have to believe that you are the one who creates your success, that you are the one who creates your mediocrity, and that you are the one creating your struggle around money and success.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Success

• I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.

  

  Dorothy Dunnett
  • Soul
  • BlackBerry pie

• It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they were not allowed to account for a work of art mainly by tracing where it comes from, they would have to deal with it in and by itself--which is what they are most needed for.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Art
  • Deals
  • Needed

• The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.

  

  John Drinkwater
  • Experience
  • Expression
  • Poet

• What I had said in the morning was that this is what we know has happened, but there has been no significant off-site release. Only to find out moments later that, in fact, there had been an off-site release. I still haven't gotten over that.

  

  William Scranton
  • Morning
  • Moments
  • Facts

• Historical facts are the vital framework around which non-fiction writers construct their narratives; they are, quite simply, indispensable.

  

  Saul David
  • Facts
  • Historical
  • Narratives