David Byrne Quotes
I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.
Quotes to Explore
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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I like to connect with people and suss them out. There's no better way than seeing how they react if you just bear into them.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.
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Once your IQ is 150 or over, it stops beings ability and becomes a disability.
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Financial analysts make a lot more than accountants.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.
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Singing in Yiddish was a great thrill for me and came about through Joe Papp, the founder of The Public Theater.
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My confidence comes from me, not from Jon Jones. I can't draw my confidence from another person.
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.
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Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative.
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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I've always been a reader and a writer.
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Rigor is not a substitute for imagination.
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The best comics enlist you to take accountability for who you are, whether you like it or not.
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The black comedians meeting? Oh yeah, we hold one every year at Eddie Murphy's house.
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As much as I loved the model of St. Francis, I realized that I couldn't afford to be poor, because unlike St. Francis, I'm not celibate. I was enlightened that God's call to me was not poverty but generosity and simplicity. And I had to go back to the lesson I learned from my parents: that is, simplicity.
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I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.
