David McCord Quotes

But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.

David McCord

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• My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Life
  • Work
  • Happy

• Everything is global now. It's not London, it's not Spain, it's not Italy - everything is everywhere. So you have to be everywhere, I guess.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • You
  • Now
  • London

• I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Life
  • Father
  • Sweet

• Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Hope
  • Quality
  • Class

• I've fallen over on stage a couple of times, but I've only ever bruised my ego.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Couple
  • Stage
  • Ego

• I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Age

• We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • Work
  • Future
  • Democracy

• I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Myself
  • Hard
  • I Can

• I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Bad
  • Wife
  • Husband

• When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.

  

  Randy Houser
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Musicians

• Since the decline of record companies and music sales, I've always played live.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Music
  • Live
  • Sales

• I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Up
  • Children
  • Day

• I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Want
  • Stop
  • Alone

• Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Help
  • Problems
  • Blame

• Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment in application to the duties of life.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Moral
  • Expression

• At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Experience
  • Reality
  • Action

• I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Guy
  • Free
  • Me

• The best way for me to procrastinate as a writer is research.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • Me
  • Best
  • Research

• Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted.

  

  Washington Irving
  • True
  • Enthusiasm
  • Eloquence

• An exact poetic duplication of a man is for the poet a negation of the earth, an impossibility of being, even though his greatest desire is to speak to many men, to unite with them by means of harmonious verses about the truths of the mind or of things.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Man

• I used to have a little silent prayer: 'Dear God, let my ability to get work be the same as my celebrity.' That would be a hard burden: to be a household name and not be able to get work.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Work
  • God
  • Prayer

• Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Happiness

• The more country that my music gets, the less it fits into the country world today. It's almost like there needs to be two genres, modern country and... country?

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • World
  • Music
  • Country

• But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.

  

  David McCord
  • Man
  • Strange
  • Crossroads