Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.

Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737.

David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm sorry that the only comment I get about the part is the way I look. [Commenting on the critics' response to her performance in Blue Velvet]

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

Beauty in things lies in the mind which contemplates them.

13-hour roadtrip, 5 am: Me: Uhhh... you're in the middle of the road. David: (matter-of-factly) I know. 2 hours later: Me: You're driving off the road. David: (matter-of-factly again) I know that. (Maybe you just had to be there. Or be very tired.)

Speaker: The award for best debate team goes to Eve and David! Larry: What the hell? They're giving them handcuffs? Ben: Sure, why not? Larry: Dave's a Mormon!

Custom, then, is the great guide of human life.

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to any circumstances.

It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

Me: "Run this guy over!" Missy: "I will. Get out of my way, David Bowie!

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Custom is the great guide of human life.

Robert E Lee didn't make it the first time and Jefferson Davis took the vacancy. Pershing didn't make it for two years, MacArthur couldn't get in the first year and Eisenhower took an extra year of high school to get in. Patton took three years to get in and five to get out.

Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different proportions, according to the disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient can be entirely wanting without destroying in some measure the relish of the whole composition. composition.

The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

Character is the result of a system of stereotyped principals.

Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath.

And what is the greatest number? Number one.

Eloquence, at its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection, but addresses itself entirely to the desires and affections, captivating the willing hearers, and subduing their understanding.

If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.

The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Avarice, the spur of industry.

After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post.

For men tied fast to the absolute, bled of their differences, drained of their dreams by authoritarian leeches until nothing but pulp is left, become a massive, sick Thing whose sheer weight is used ruthlessly by ambitious men. Here is the real enemy of the people: our own selves dehumanized into ''the masses.'' And where is the David who can slay this giant?

It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

Among well bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority concealed; attention given to each in his turn; and an easy stream of conversation maintained without vehemence, without interruption, without eagerness for victory, and without any airs of superiority.

The law always limits every power it gives.

Well, of course David Copperfield is better looking than you.... But I like you better.... Well, actually... I don't know him very well...

Mom, if you leave Dad tomorrow and run off with David Copperfield, I'll disinherit you!

David Bowie was much better when he was gay.

Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man.

History is the discovering of the constant and universal principles of human nature.

Davis fouls out to third in fair territory.

David I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem *may* have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being *crushed* by a *dwarf*. Alright That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.

Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.

If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, 'Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?' No. 'Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?' No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.