David Sylvian Quotes

I don't listen to a lot of music any more and even the people I've loved for years - the Nick Drakes of this world - I can't go back to them and listen to them over and over. ~ David Sylvian

I'm obsessed with books. ~ David Sylvian

During the lifetime of Japan I became very neurotic, very paranoid. ~ David Sylvian

Zen Buddhism is a discipline where belief isn't necessary. ~ David Sylvian

Sadness can be romantic but it's dangerous to play on it. ~ Christopher E. Young

The things that were needed to keep the imagination free were "all written down in this age of reason." It was time to take the opportunity to use this imagination. All bets were off, "Fire at will." Standing next to the message in Pulling Punches, where there was only the faintest hint of solace, the message in The Ink in the Well seemed to be that in Picasso, Cocteau, and Sartre, a home of sorts had been found that went some way to - if not answering the questions - opening the mind to give the insight possible to find the answers. The references to Sartre and Cocteau were oblique and hidden in the phrase "The blood of a poet, the ink in the well, it's all written down in this age of reason. ~ Christopher E. Young

I think nowadays it doesn't really matter where we are physically located. We create our own culture around us to a large extent, whether it's what we're listening to, what we're watching, what we're reading - it can have very little to do with one's immediate cultural environment. We are in a global culture in that respect. ~ David Sylvian

Sometimes a little compromise isn't a bad thing. You don't need to be precious about it. ~ David Sylvian

It wasn't my natural inclination to get into writing protest songs. ~ David Sylvian

The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic. ~ David Sylvian

Vulnerability is not a weakness, a passing indisposition, or something we can arrange to do without. Vulnerability is not a choice. Vulnerability is the underlying, ever-present, and abiding undercurrent of our natural state. To run from vulnerability is to run from the essence of our nature. The attempt to be invulnerable is the vain attempt to become something we are not, and most especially, to close off our understanding of the grief of others. More seriously, in refusing our vulnerability, we refuse the help needed at every turn of our existence and immobilize the essential title and conversational foundations of our identity. ~ David Whyte

They said downstairs the Parnate made me black out. It did a blood pressure thing. My mother heard noises upstairs and found me she said down on my side chewing the rug in my room. My room's shag-carpeted. She said I was on the floor flushed red and all wet like when I was a newborn; she said she thought at first she hallucinated me as a newborn again. On my side all red and wet.'
'A hypertensive crisis will do that. It means your blood pressure was high enough to have killed you. Sertraline in combination with an MAOI2828 will kill you, in enough quantities. And with the toxicity of that much lithium besides, I'd say you're pretty lucky to be here right now.'
'My mother sometimes thinks she's hallucinating.'
'Sertraline, by the way, is the Zoloft you kept instead of discarding as instructed when changing medications.'
'She says I chewed a big hole out of the carpet. But who can say. ~ David Foster Wallace

I was enough of an acrobat and a gymnast and a dancer and everything else so that I could handle the kung fu, because it's just choreography. ~ David Carradine

Even the worst neighborhood of Heaven will be better than the best neighborhood of the fanciest town on Earth! ~ David Berg

Does bouncing count? -- Silk, The Belgariad ~ David Eddings

Women everywhere are always expected to continually imagine what one situation or another would look like from a male point of view. Men are almost never expected to do the same for women. So deeply internalized is this pattern of behavior that many men react to any suggestion that they might do otherwise as if it were itself an act of violence. ~ David Graeber

It is not that he needs to stop his sexual immorality to be saved. That would mean he would need to earn his salvation. No, he needs to trust in Christ, which will result in a changed heart with a desire to obey Christ in this area of his life. ~ David Platt

When you fall in love, you feel like a missing piece of a puzzle that's been found. ~ David Byrne

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation. ~ Henry David Thoreau

The second I walk onto the set and I know that there's a camera and I know that there's a David Twohy behind that camera, there is zero pressure. There is just me jumping into a pool called 'Riddick.' It's the most free I am. It's like channeling something. ~ Vin Diesel

All the words we use are stripped bare, so that no one ever knows what anyone else is saying, so that all kindness is cruelty, all selfishness generous, all care callous. ~ David Levithan

Dissent without action is consent. ~ Henry David Thoreau

People are already finding ways to make their music and play it in front of people and have a life in music, I guess, and I think that's pretty much all you can ask. ~ David Byrne

Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are. ~ David Mamet

Where are you going?" Turing had asked.
"Nowhere."
"Me too. ~ David Lagercrantz

I'm part of what I consider the entertainment industry. For my photos to be entertaining, they have to be provocative and new. ~ David LaChapelle

David Pietrusza has a gift for making the past both real and
dramatically gripping. ~ Richard Norton Smith

Ask Bill Clinton about Yasir Arafat. Clinton and Barak did everything they could in 2000 at Camp David. Arafat walked away from it. ~ Peter T. King

The only way to enhance one's power in the world is by increasing one's integrity, understanding, and capacity for compassion. ~ David R. Hawkins

Although what I have basically been doing about the rain is ignoring it, to tell the truth.
How I do that is by walking in it.
I did not fail to notice that those last two sentences must certainly look like a contradiction, by the way.
Even if they are on such thing.
One can very agreeably ignore a rain by walking in it.
In fact it is when one allows a rain to prevent one from walking in it that one is failing to ignore it. ~ David Markson

Do you know what I miss most about Rosemary? Simply knowing she was there. ~ David Ebershoff

Remind yourself regularly that you are better than you think you are. Successful people are not superhuman. Success does not require a super-intellect. Nor is there anything mystical about success. And success isn't based on luck. Successful people are just ordinary folks who have developed belief in themselves and what they do. Never ... yes, never ... sell yourself short. ~ David J. Schwartz

Poor, chubby Annette Kelper, who desperately tries to pretend that nobody notices the fact that she's balding on top of her head. That's right. Look closely - balding just like a man. Perhaps Randy feels sorry for chrome-dome Annette. ~ David Sedaris

It's good netiquette to get to know someone in social media before giving out your phone number. NetworkEtiquette.net ~ David Chiles

Human beings are terrible things, Arthur. ~ David Burr Gerrard

Imagine, they said, living an existence where the words out of your mouth changed the very fabric of the world around you. ~ David Anthony Durham

Sometimes I've felt that the industry has typecast me as a certain kind of character. But then I think all it really takes is one role, the right role, to shake that up and change that perception. ~ David Schwimmer

This low-fat idea that's been drummed into our heads and bellies is completely off-base and deeply responsible for most of our modern ills. ~ David Perlmutter

If somebody plans to carry out a series of murders ... then this is obviously an evil and pre-meditated attack and in that case, there could be a deterrent effect. ~ David Davis

I wasn't all that attracted to writing originally. I read a great deal. My parents read a great deal. I do know that as my interest in tennis waned, my interest in academics increased. I mean, I started doing my homework in high school and discovering that it was somewhat fun. And then in college I barely even played on the team because just classes were much more interesting. ~ David Foster Wallace

I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life. ~ Patti LuPone

Polo really is a European sport. It's not really that popular in America. I'm not an expert on the sport, but it's fun to watch. ~ David Lauren

You've got your mother in a whirl, she's not sure if your a boy or a girl. ~ David Bowie

Snark is what people on the inside call any attempt at protest from people on the outside. I hate it on principle, as do all Columbia professors, Catholic priests, and Mississippi Klansmen. ~ David Denby

I'm really trying hard not to do anything that has been done before. So knowing everything I can about the legacy of magic challenges my team and I to invent new illusions. ~ David Copperfield

The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary, and running, without control, into the most distant parts of space and time in order to avoid the objects, which custom has rendered too familiar to it. ~ David Hume