David Wallace Crowder (Crowder) Quotes
Language is in the way. Music's in the way. Songs are in the way. Stuff's in the way. That's just our state here. And to acknowledge that we're broken and to even ... create tradition that helps us embrace that, and to understand that, I think is a very healthy, good thing.
Quotes to Explore
-
I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.
-
In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.
-
I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
-
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
-
I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive.
-
One, I push my deadlines closer than anybody else, or let's say it this way: I'm really late.
-
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
-
I sort of approach wrestling the way Johnny Depp approaches movies. I don't really care necessarily what I'm portraying.
-
Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.
-
Government can do best by simply getting out of the way.
-
I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.
-
I can be intense in a lot of ways, but not the way you see the guy in 'The Salvation.'
-
For me, my country comes first. Nothing else matters but my country. I always felt that the best way to express your patriotism is to spread love, and that's all I ever tried to do through my work and my cinema.
-
Americans do not have a good track record when it comes to preparing for disasters, unless they see a clear possibility of personally being in harms way.
-
I just want to continue the way I am going.
-
All art becomes history as soon as it is made, so it is inevitably part of a tradition. It doesn't matter a toss if it is in paint or in film; it is all art.
-
On a certain level, I don't think there is an answer to what the American way is, because it is constantly being re-defined. It's also been exploited and capitalized upon and politicized by one side or the other to the point that a certain degree of cynicism has attached itself to that term.
-
I never wanted to take the easy way, and I was always willing to hustle.
-
This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank, be a good investment for them, for their children, for their grandchildren, and they would directly contribute to revitalizing a big sector of middle-class wages in America and making our country more productive, so that we could create more opportunity. But I think that we could get a lot of grassroots support from, like, local chambers of commerce and other things if they understood exactly how this infrastructure bank would work.
-
I think the president [Barack Obama] adopted some of that same language, but took it into the White House. And I think, like, there's a crucial difference between being, you know, Joe Schmo in the neighborhood and being the head, you know, of the government that, you know, in many ways is largely responsible for those conditions in the first place.
-
The teens are emotionally unstable and pathic. It is a natural impulse to experience hot and perfervid psychic states, and it is characterized by emotionalism. We see here the instability and fluctuations now so characteristic. The emotions develop by contrast and reaction into the opposite.
-
I just felt my good fortune, and I also trust my love for the book, my love for the material, and my reverence for Stephen King.
-
Language is in the way. Music's in the way. Songs are in the way. Stuff's in the way. That's just our state here. And to acknowledge that we're broken and to even ... create tradition that helps us embrace that, and to understand that, I think is a very healthy, good thing.
