Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Viscott

Many risks fail because they were not taken in time. Too many risks are postponed until unnecessarily elaborate preparations are made. This does not mean that one should say, Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead! That is foolish and self-destructive. . . . But don't sit back waiting for the perfect moment. It almost never comes.

David Viscott

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

David Duchovny

I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.

David Duchovny

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

David Brinkley

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

David Brainerd

First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

David Brin

Creative people see Prometheus in a mirror, never Pandora.

David Brin

The best time to act on this was decades ago. The second best time is now.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

David Vitter

D energy - Domestic jobs; Domestic energy; Deficit reduction.

David Rockwell

But what makes my job so great is there's no one answer that's right for every restaurant.

David Remnick

I'm a journalist - I'm not Robert Caro. I have a day job, and a pretty consuming one - a joyfully consuming one.

David Horowitz

My parents called themselves progressives. The agenda was a Soviet America...the slogan of the communist party in those days was peace, jobs, democracy. Sound familar? The communist party is the democratic Party.

David Dinkins

I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.

David Dinkins

I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.

David Duke

And affirmative action is a very nice term for racial discrimination against better-qualified white people in jobs, employment, promotions and scholarships, and college admittance.

David Duke

A black...gets a job with a white-owned company. He is the only black at the firm. He works hard, but he's fighting a losing battle against his genes.

David Duchovny

My whole life, Ive wanted things before I was ready. I was always pushing for the next job, the next success. I was so focused on achieving and the path that I was missing some great point about life.

David Hockney

Any artist will tell you he's really only interested in the stuff he's doing now. He will, always. It's true, and it should be like that.

David Hockney

We need all kinds of artists. We have no need to destroy drawing. We lose so much. This wouldn't happen in music.

David Hockney

In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.

David Hockney

It is difficult to say why I decided I wanted to be an artist. Obviously, I had some facility, more than other people, but sometimes facility comes because one is more interested in looking at things, examining them, more interested in the visual world than other people are.

David Hockney

An artist might be attracted to hedonism, but of course an artist is not a hedonist. He's a worker, always.

David Hockney

We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way

David Hockney

What I always longed to do was to be able to paint like I can draw, most artists would tell you that, they would all like to paint like they can draw.

David Hockney

I've always been a looker. Loads of people say, "I never saw that" - but that's what artists do.

David Duchovny

At one time there were voiceover artists, now there are celebrity voiceover artists. It's unfortunate because these people need the money less than the voiceover artist.