David Koepp Quotes

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

David Koepp

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• I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Chance

• I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Like
  • Serious
  • Intelligent

• We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

  

  Hans Urs von Balthasar
  • Believe
  • Beauty
  • Appearance

• I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.

  

  Faith Hill
  • God
  • Kids
  • Me

• Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • School
  • Kids
  • You

• For the third season, we do a sit around on one episode where we were in character and then we commented on one episode just being ourselves, so - not really. I was comfortable, though. I wasn't nervous.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Character
  • Season
  • Nervous

• Sometimes we all work so hard to overcome various things, and we are very cruel as a society and tough on people who we think aren't trying hard enough.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.

  

  Edith Stein
  • Time
  • Angry
  • Same

• Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I'm into song-writing; I'm into melodies that break your heart a little bit. That's the thing that got me into music; that's what I look for in music for the most part.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Heart

• I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • Book
  • Friends
  • Right

• In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 days a year, they get buckets of food - for the birds, for the squirrels, the chipmunks and the turtles in the summer.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Food
  • Morning
  • Summer

• I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice.

  

  Haniel Long
  • Voice
  • Lord
  • Theologian

• When we played with the Rollins Band, we'd keep songs going until we felt like ending it.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Band
  • Going
  • Ending

• And all the zig-zags and lines in my hair? I used to do that myself. I just thought it was cool that you could actually do that with your hair.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Myself
  • Cool
  • Hair

• It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Human

• I started doing impressions of Steve Urkel and Ed Grimley as my way of getting through the fear of rejection.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Fear
  • Doing
  • Rejection

• February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Day
  • February
  • Are

• To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

  

  William Penn
  • Evil
  • Guilty
  • Innocent

• Nokia's industry-leading intellectual property has the potential to create significant value for our licensees and our shareholders.

  

  Rajeev Suri
  • Create
  • Intellectual
  • Potential

• The soul becomes prudent by sitting and being quiet.

  

  Aristotle
  • Soul
  • Becomes
  • Prudent

• When I'm writing, I'm in an isolation chamber. I'm not one to think about that outside world stuff when I'm writing.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Writing
  • Isolation

• How many rappers in the game have "little" in front of their name? Lil' Wayne, Lil' Boosie it's a lil' shame Lil' Flip, Lil' Cease, yo they not the same Lil' Wyte, Lil' Mama, where Lil' Zane? Little Brother, Lil' Jon, and Lil' Fame Real hip hop, not about your lil' chain Lil' Keke, Lil' Kim a lil' freaky Lil' Fizz, Illegal with Lil' Maliky Lil' Mo, Lil' Bow Wow had beef with Lil' Romeo A lil' teenager told me so.

  

  Edward Anderson
  • Game
  • Name
  • Shame

• Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

  

  David Koepp
  • Evolution
  • Potential
  • Thousand