David > David's Quotes

“You just totally missed the metaphor. I could never love someone who missed the metaphor.”
― Christopher Durang, Beyond Therapy

“... Shreve had a brush, so I didn't have to open the bag any more.”
― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

“Seems so nice to get into my art things again.”
― Kaufman and Hart

“Wunderliche Alter!/Soll ich mit dir geh'n?/Willst du meinen Liedern/Deine Leier dreh'n?”
― Wilhelm Müller

“Hell isn't other people. It's other people telling the same story for the twentieth time.”
― David Ives, Ancient History

“Spooool!”
― Samuel Beckett

“And worse I may be yet: the worst is not
So long as we can say 'This is the worst.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

“I was reading a sign high on the wall behind the bar:
ONLY GENUINE PRE-WAR AMERICAN AND BRITISH WHISKEYS SERVED HERE
I was trying to count how many lies could be found in those nine words, and had reached four, with promise of more...”
― Dashiell Hammett

“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
”
― Clarence Darrow

“We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory”
― Louise Glück

“No, she's in Spain, too, they're all in Spain, there's no one here... Am I in Spain? No, I'm not in Spain, dear, I'm in agony. That's where I am.”
― Michael Frayn

“Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit.”
― T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems

“I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane...”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

“Oceania was at war with Eurasia: therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.”
― George Orwell

“It is ful fair a man to bere him evene,/For alday meeteth men at unset stevene.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer

“Yes, light, there is no other word for it.”
― Samuel Beckett

“Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.”
― Ali Smith

“I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there. ”
― David Mamet