David Small Quotations

We're making sure the unit commanders here can still conduct their missions without the folks from Keesler, ... There are about 18,000 airmen in the theater, so we can pick up the slack.

We're going to see this population change from being care receivers to caregivers, ... I think that's inevitable.

My kids' books all have a darkness to them.

Nearly 100 airmen who were scheduled to deploy from Keesler AFB (to the Central Command area of responsibility) will not deploy now

From the U.S. side, having their different types of aircraft at our disposal certainly benefits us, ... It relieves some of the stress on the other aircraft. Having the Mirages there also provides a different skill set.

I think it's a generational thing. It's time for a change.

I think it brightens the spotlight on recycling as an issue in front of the General Assembly. It also recognizes that these things take time.

Overall, it can be an effective tool for communication. Certainly nothing's perfect. From time to time there's going to be a mishap like this.... No system's perfect when you're dealing with computers.

I was in college in the sixties when movies really got good. I'm a fan of Bergman and Hitchcock and Polanski and Antonioni. Those are my gods.

I think, in fairness to everyone, that the proposal has changed pretty substantially from a technological viewpoint. Now the question be- comes: Is it enough?

It creates more uncertainty than in the past, and to the extent that we have adequate reserves, that's a good thing,

Mama had her little cough. Once or twice, some quiet sobbing, out of sight... Or the slamming of kitchen cupboard doors. That was her language.

We hope to become one of Alltel's top agents in this location.

To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.

We want to make sure our customers are as educated as possible. We will sit down and talk to you about the services.

The odd thing about recurring dreams is that, no matter how many times you dream the same thing, it always takes you by surprise.

Leaders of the world, my message to you is simple: to achieve universal peace and understanding on this planet you have only to speak plainly, even though you may look foolish. This is a thousand times better than looking good and talking nonsense.

.... When you have no voice, you don't exist

Those who weren't scheduled to go home, we're going to send them home anyway to take care of their families and the hurricane damage,

We feel this is where the growth is, in Lancaster County. With the surrounding cities the area is pretty saturated.

Due to circumstances with design and cost, we have been forced to look at an alternative scheme. Certainly in the next few months we'll have our arms around the direction in which we want to go.

Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism.

I've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I loved Roald Dahl; I loved the underlying nastiness of some of his - darkness of his tales.

There's always a fear of the unknown as to what liabilities the state might inherit for whatever reason,

The US Central Command Air Forces is sending 300 Active Duty and Air Force Reserve Airmen home who were assigned to Keesler Air Force Base (in Biloxi, Mississippi) so they can attend to their families' needs after Hurricane Katrina,

The U.S. Central Command Air Forces is sending 300 Active Duty and Air Force Reserve Airmen home who were assigned to Keesler Air Force Base (in Biloxi, Mississippi) so they can attend to their families' needs after Hurricane Katrina,

The mere presence of the displaced population will create jobs,

I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know what they're like. They are in love with language. They're obsessed with it. Even if their thoughts aren't more special than anybody else's, they have a way of putting them into words that makes them sensational.

I'm deeply in love with my wife, and she's my best friend, and yet we share different viewpoints of life, which I think is one of the things that holds our marriage together. She came from Texas, and she has an optimistic view of life. I came from Detroit and have a very pessimistic view.

I just totally do not believe in this sort of Bart Simpson character who infects so much of our literature and film and TV stuff nowadays, these know-it-all kids who seem to understand the hypocrisy of the adult world so thoroughly and can talk about it with such articulateness. That's bunk.

I don't like my parents; I never will. I didn't cry at either of their funerals. I haven't missed them for five seconds. I didn't - you know, our characters were so at odds with one another right from the beginning. But I do understand them now as human beings, with the understanding of an adult.