"What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful."
— Scott Westerfeld

"You could sing us the phone book and we would still love you."
— Paula Abdul

"You didn't beat the compotition you crushed the compotition!"
— Simon Cowell

"If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell."
— David Cook

"I've looked at the world for quite
a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll
probably end up crying."
- Prince Kheldar of Drasnia"
— David Eddings

"Remember that at any given moment there are a thousand things you can love."
— David Levithan (The Realm of Possibility)

"I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, "Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman." "
— David Bowie

"A year. A thousand kisses. And now a thousand one, a thousand two. There are so many other place we could have ended up, but I have to believe
none of them would have felt this right. "All I want is you" is not entirely true. I want so much more, and with you I think I can get it."
— David Levithan (The Realm of Possibility)

"The word I think of is precarious. I am struck by how precarious it all is. How the things that hold us are only as strong as the faith we have in them."
— David Levithan (The Realm of Possibility)

"And do you really think someone's going to look at you and say, 'Hmm, I think that girl's a plant'?"
— Aprilynne Pike (Wings)

"We are so used to releasing words, we don't know what to do with them if they stay. No matter how many times we let them go, they come back. The words that matter always stay."
— David Levithan (The Realm of Possibility)

"It's your call," he said softly, "but whatever you decide, I'll help you." He placed a soft, warm hand at the back of her neck and Laurel's breath caught in her chest. "Whatever you need, I'll be. If you need the science geek to give you answers from a textbook, I'm your guy; if you just want a friend to sit by you in bio and help you feel better when you're sad, I'm still your guy." His thumb slowly stroked across her earlobe and down her cheek. "And if you need someone to hold you and protect you from anyone in the world who might want to hurt you, then I am definitely your guy." His pale-blue eyes bore into hers, and for a second she couldn't breath. "But it's all up to you," he whispered."
— Aprilynne Pike (Wings)

"Heathenism is a state of mind. You can take it that I’m referring to one who does not see his world. He has no mental light. He destroys almost unwittingly. He cannot feel any Gods presence in his life. He is the 21st century man."
— David Bowie

"Quantum physics is to regular everyday physics as a David Lynch film is to a mainstream blockbuster"
— S Peter Davis

"A year. A thousand kisses. And now a thousand one, a thousand two. There are so many other places we could have ended up, but I have to believe none of them would have felt this right. All I want is you is not entirely true. I want so much more, and with you I think I can get it."
— David Levithan (The Realm of Possibility)

"The mother who lay in the grave, was the mother of my infancy; the little creature in her arms, was myself, as I had once been, hushed for ever on her bosom."
— Charles Dickens

"I don't care how impossible it seems."
— David Byrne

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"While he bore no real resemblance to anyone in my family, his features were a collection of my mother's and father's best attributes, with a few of Gregory Peck's thrown in.""
— Lisa Lutz (The Spellman Files)

""That we can never know," answered the wolf angrily. "That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe to the present. Here and now, and nowhere else. For nothing else exists, except in our minds. What we owe to ourselves, and to those we're bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything.""
— David Clement-Davies

""Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't." -Richard David Bach
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— Richard Bach

"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."
— David Hume

"Keep your 'lectric eye on me babe
Put your ray gun to my head
Press your space face close to mine, love
Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah!"
— David Bowie

"'And you know what happened next in my dream? Dick Cheney and I said the same thing at the same time: "Well, we had a Cold War to win." And then I screamed at him: "I KNEW you would say that! You ALWAYS say that!" But then, since Cheney and I made the same remark at the same time, I realized he owed me a Coke. So I said, "Jinx! You owe me a Coke!" And Vice-President Dick Cheney smiled sheepishly. *Shudder*... I don't even DRINK coke. I tastes like robot sweat.'"
— David Rees (Get Your War On II)

"'Yeah, it's real easy to look in the mirror and be proud when you're wearing pleated shorts. And you know what's really pathetic? I don't even have any dividends to get tax-decreased. When'll they cut taxes on not-having-health-insurancends?'"
— David Rees (Get Your War On II)

"The first time I hung out with [David Blaine], he took me to this condemned building, and it had a pizza oven and he crawled into the pizza oven and turned the heat on to 400 degrees or something like that, and he stayed in it for I guess a half hour. He came out, and except for one or two second-degree burns, he was unscathed. You meet a lot of musicians and filmmakers and actors, but it's rare to meet someone who can step inside a pizza oven and take the heat. I was intrigued by that."
— Harmony Korine

"Freedom! To fill people's mailboxes, eyes, ears and brains with commercial rubbish against their will, television programs that are impossible to watch with a sense of coherence. Freedom! To force information on people, taking no account of their right not to accept it or their right of peace of mind. Freedom! To spit in the eyes and souls of passersby with advertisements."
— Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

"Having one child makes you a parent; having two you are a referee"
— David Frost

"Kegigihan adalah kekuatan yang tidak kelihatan, yang bisa menyingkirkan rintangan-rintangan besar."
— David Herbert Lawrence

"The card for the Santa Teresa cybercafe was a deepred, so red that it was hard to read what was printed on it. On the back, in a lighter red, was a map that showed exactly where the cafe was located. He asked the receptionist to translate the name of the place. The clerk laughed and said it was called Fire, Walk With Me."
— Roberto Bolaño (2666)

"Art is what separates us from the animals."
— Iimani David

"The world's a headmaster who works on your faults. I don't mean in a mystical or Jesus way. More how you'll keep tripping over a hidden step, over and over, till you finally understand: Watch out for that step! Everything that's wrong with us, if we're too selfish or too Yessir, Nosir, Three bags full sir or too anything, that's a hidden step. Either you suffer the consequences of not noticing your fault forever or, one day, you do notice it, and fix it. Joke is, once you get it into your brain about that hidden step and think, Hey, life isn't such a shithouse after all again, then BUMP! Down you go, a whole new flight of hidden steps.
There are always more."
— David Mitchell

" Beware the flatterers of the world, for what is music to the ears may be poison to the soul!"
— David Menlo (The Tapestry)

"On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar."
— David Ogilvy

"The consumer isn't a moron. She is your wife."
— David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)

"What you say in advertising is more important than how you say it."
— David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)

"Much of the messy advertising you see on television today is the product of committees. Committees can criticize advertisements, but they should never be allowed to create them."
— David Ogilvy (Confessions of an Advertising Man)

"Doyle: "What is it now, then?"
Cordelia: "Isn't java supposed to be a coffee?"
Doyle: "Ready to abandon the the Web project?"
Cordelia: "No way. We have a chance here to make contact with the millions of people out there who are glued to their computers."
Doyle: "All those millions, shunning human contact. I'll never understand it. Call me old-fashioned, if you like, but I want to interface with a face, not a hunk of plastic and glass."
Cordelia: "Climb out of the Dark Ages, Munchkin man."
Doyle: "It's leprechaun, and either way, I don't appreciate the insult."
— John Passarella

"If I had to choose between playing a song that not a whole lot of people know that I could get behind, or the opposite, I'll choose the lesser-known every time."
— David Cook

"My mindset in writing Truth Is A Gun was to convey my regret for whatever dishonesty I had committed in life and how it had hurt those around me. The lyrics, however, contradict that idea. The lyrics seem to suggest that I am condemning others for lying, when in fact I m condemning myself. "
— David Cook

"I've looked at the world for quite
a few years now and I've found that if I don't laugh, I'll
probably end up crying.
- Prince Kheldar of Drasnia"
— David Eddinbs

"Truth is a gun
I'm aiming at everyone
I'm driven by fear
It's no longer safe in here
My message is clean
Break off from who you've been
You're shot in the head
Another one dead"
— David Cook, Axium

"Eden lets me in/I find the seeds of love/And climb upon the highwire/I kiss and tell all my fears

Falling down the mountain/end up kissing dirt/Look a little closer/Sometimes it wouldn't hurt

RIP David Carradine


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— M. Hutchence, INXS

"On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar."
— David Ogilvie