David Lewis-Williams Quotes

Improved memory made possible the long-term recollection of dreams and visions and the construction of those recollections into a spirit world.

David Lewis-Williams

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• I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Life
  • Love
  • Dad

• After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Idea
  • Creatures
  • Poems

• I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Live
  • Real
  • Family

• I was just so excited to have a child! I held him up like he was Simba in 'The Lion King.' I wanted to sing 'The Circle of Life.'

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Life
  • Up
  • Child

• My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • You
  • Picture
  • Favorite

• In tactics and training, we do more with Conte. We work a lot of tactical positions, and we know exactly what we have to do on the pitch, where I have to go, and where the defenders have to go. We know exactly what to do.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Work
  • Know
  • Training

• Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.

  

  Frances Perkins
  • Long
  • History
  • Man

• 'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.

  

  Ralph Baer
  • Game
  • Simply
  • Odyssey

• Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.

  

  Raf Simons
  • History
  • Culture
  • Question

• Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • Trouble
  • Laugh
  • Class

• You know, I've just always been sort of goofy and kind of gone with it. I actually usually work more in drama, but I have been floating back and forth with comedy, and somehow they keep giving me jobs in comedy, so I guess there's something funny about me.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Work
  • Giving
  • Funny

• I work with the Carl Lewis Foundation focusing on youth from high school down.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Fear
  • Meeting

• He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Skill
  • Struggles
  • Antagonist

• All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Home
  • Enjoy

• I will keep my word. My father fled Cuba, and I will fight to defend liberty because my family knows what it's like to lose it.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Family
  • Father
  • Fight

• My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• Vegetarians in general don't like me.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Me
  • Like
  • General

• With scientific advances, Congress must now make changes to reflect new therapeutic options.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • New
  • Changes
  • Congress

• You can't tell your kids to read if you're just watching television. They have to see you read. And in that respect, I think it's important to walk the walk. It's a wonderful shared time.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Time
  • Important
  • Kids

• World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of enslaved nations and restoration of their sovereign rights, the right of every nation to arrange its affairs as it wishes, economic aid to nations that have suffered and assistance to them in attaining their material welfare, restoration of democratic liberties, and destruction of the Hitlerite regime.

  

  Joseph Stalin
  • Suffered
  • Regime
  • World War II

• The strength of your memory dictates the size of your reality.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Reality
  • Memory
  • Size

• If you give me the privilege of your vote tomorrow, that's what I will do every single day of my presidency, to knock down barriers, to create opportunities so that you have the chance to fill your own dreams. You see, I believe America's best days are still ahead of us.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Chance
  • Dreams
  • Presidency

• Improved memory made possible the long-term recollection of dreams and visions and the construction of those recollections into a spirit world.

  

  David Lewis-Williams
  • Dreams
  • Memory
  • Recollection