Dave's Quotes

#1. Dave's playing and repertoire evokes memories of the golden era of Modern Jazz, and in addition to being a nice guy he happens to be a bebopper of the finest order.

Chris Cortez

#2. I once went to one of his Virgin Vie parties and had a really good time watching Chas having a paddy whilst trying to put on Dave's socks, before realising that he only had two feet, compared to Dave's three.

St John Morris

#3. I want to see you in your presents." Dave's gaze locked onto his. "Naked, except for panties, a garter belt and stockings." Shawn's

K.C. Wells

#4. All right, here's a limerick: A young martial artist called Dave Was fearless and handsome and brave He saved me from thugs When I nearly got mugged So now I'm forever Dave's slave." There was a short silence. I cringed. "Um, sorry. Came out a bit gay, that one." Bugger, bugger, bugger.

J.L. Merrow

#5. I have to say that Dave's Grohl amazing too. You see all these interviews with him and he seems like the coolest and nicest guy on camera, but he really is when he's off too! I was fortunate enough to know him before he was a big rock star when I put out his very first band's album.

Reed Mullin

#6. It's when I'm around some people that my entire vocabulary goes on vacation. Like now, when Dave's walking next to me wearing an old black singlet and board shorts and the tattoo of a bird on his wrist, every single word in my head except "no" and "huh" is lying somewhere on a beack getting a suntan

Cath Crowley

#7. Mum's always hinting I should ask him out, but when a girl finds talking as hard as I do and singing in public even harder, that leaves mime and interpretative dance. Don't get me wrong. I'd be great at both those things, but I don't think Dave's all that into the arts.

Cath Crowley

#8. It's supposed to go bing-bing or bong-bong or ding-ding when tires go over it. The one at Dave's stopped working several years ago, and he won't have it fixed because he feels as I do - that none of us need to be reminded we exist.

Peter Hedges

#9. You've got to figure out how to be happy with yourself.Figure out what moves you,what fulfills you.For the first time,Annie,you've got to put yourself first.Don't be Dave's Annie or Amelia's mom or Charlotte's daughter.Just be Annie.

Lindsay Detwiler

#10. I walked over, my eyes scanning Luna Blu, my house, and Dave's. But it was the building behind them, that empty hotel, that had the tiniest light, provided by one word, written in fluorescent paint. Maybe it wasn't what was once there, in real life. But in this one, it said it all: STAY.

Sarah Dessen

#11. Bolts of energy swirled in the air and streamed into Dave's butt. Dave sneezed ... No. He farted through his nose.

Fred Barnett

#12. And there was a tree stump outside the Black Barn everyone called 'Dave's stump' because for over three years, until a few weeks before our arrival, he'd sat on it to read and write, sometimes even when it was raining or cold.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#13. Dave's gently probing finger takes one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

Cameron Vale

#14. You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.

Dave Eggers

#15. Nothing is black or white, nothing's 'us or them.' But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world. There's incredible acts of kindness and bravery, and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.

Dave Matthews

#16. But you have so much in common. You're both from strange little backwater planets. You both have odd powers. You're male and she's female. What more do you need? Believe me, buddy, if I were you, I'd go right up there and ask her if she wants to ride on my rancor.

Dave Wolverton

#17. I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions.

Dave Matthews

#18. By today's beauty standards, of course, Marilyn Monroe was an oil tanker.

Dave Barry

#19. All bands eventually break up because of one or more of the four P's: power, property, prestiege, pussy.

Dave Mustaine

#20. When Wellington Mara died in 2005, he took a piece of the organization's soul with him - one that fans, players, and staff still miss.

Dave Buscema

#21. Barry Bonds is outspoken. I think that the people of Pittsburgh felt, it's a syndrome of you've got to apologize for being successful if you're successful (as well as) black and outspoken.

Dave Parker

#22. There's also a subplot about a guy who manages pop groups. Dave is a very ambitious boy, and he gets offered an audition but only wants to do it on his terms and conditions. He wants to maintain his integrity.

Neil Tennant

#23. I guess nobody assumes anybody is a libertarian. It's a more complex political discussion than most people are used to, to explain why you think the way you do about public education or drug laws, and why it's not as simple as being for or against something.

Dave Barry

#24. If I find something I like, I'll chase it and see what comes out the other side. Once a song gets momentum and gets away from you, that's a good sign.

Dave Matthews

#25. It's funny, there aren't too many musicians that also moonlight as studio engineers. There's a few - the really brilliant ones.

Dave Grohl

#26. We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester.

Dave Mason

#27. Every time someone started shouting about the supposed monopoly of the Circle, or the Circle's unfair monetization of the personal data of its users, or some other paranoid and demonstrably false claim, soon enough it was revealed that that person was a criminal or deviant of the highest order.

Dave Eggers

#28. You've got to say 'yes' to your destiny. Life's happening right now, look around you. There goes some life. Come on, Mamma, live!

Dave Chappelle

#29. There ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys, there's only you and me, and we just disagree.

Dave Mason

#30. See you and me have a better time than most can dream of, better than the best, so we can pull on through, whatever tears at us, whatever holds us down, and if nothing can be done, we'll make the best of what's around.

Dave Matthews Band

#31. When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can count on our bunch of people that you work with and that you know. You're only as good as the reliability of that latticework.

Dave Eggers

#32. Pre-mature ejaculation. Let's talk about it. Pre-mature ejaculation. That's a pretty fancy term for, Ooooooh Oh no. This has never happened before.

Dave Attell

#33. Dave Eggers is a prince among men when it comes to writing deeply felt, socially conscious books that meld reportage with fiction. While A Hologram for the King is fiction ... it's a strike against the current state of global economic injustice.

Elissa Schappell

#34. My closest adviser is my wife. It's nice to have one of the smartest people in business as your life partner, and someone you have dinner with and breakfast with.

Dave Goldberg

#35. So I watched the Pink Panther last night, and so I'm trying desperately to be funny, and then it's just not working out so good ... I wonder if maybe I could've been a comedian or something like that, or maybe I could've been a doctor, then I wouldn't have to make anyone laugh.

Dave Matthews

#36. When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.

Dave Chappelle

#37. Why can't Americans do their own taxes? Because the federal Tax Code is out of control, that's why. It's gigantic and insanely complex, and it gets worse all the time. Nobody has ever read the whole thing. IRS workers are afraid to go into the same ROOM with it.

Dave Barry

#38. That's the vast majority of this social media, all these reviews, all these comments. Your tools have elevated gossip, hearsay and conjecture to the level of valid, mainstream communication.

Dave Eggers

#39. If you are going to open a retail store you would want to consider Christmas. Most retailers make the majority of their entire year's income between

Dave Ramsey

#40. 'Presence of God' is really that understanding that sometimes when you step out of your own shoes and just open your ears and listen to what's going on around you, you get answers to the questions you were asking.

Dave Gahan

#41. For example, for me, my brother helped me get a manager, which I don't take for granted. It's tough getting a manager, let alone one that actually cares about you and is smart. But from there, no one's going to cast me just because I'm James Franco's little brother.

Dave Franco

#42. Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

Dave Barry

#43. The U.S. Supreme Court has established that the tribes own their water. What I'd like to focus on is doing something with the water that results in economic development.

Dave Freudenthal

#44. I'm Dave, by the way," he repeated, flashing his best smile. "And you are - ?" The man looked up at him, dark eyes pondering over the meaning of a name. "Nawat. Means left-handed." David beamed. "Hey, that's cool. I'm a lefty, too." The man turned back to the fire. "I'm not." "Ah." All right, then.

E.E. Giorgi

#45. What's the difference between the Lib-Dems and a supermarket trolley? A supermarket trolley has a mind of its own,

Dave Prentis

#46. Everybody's a bird, locked up in a pretty cage. Sometimes you fly to a slightly bigger one, but you never quite have the courage to abandon captivity completely.

Dave McKean

#47. It's the behaviour of your company and its people that form your reputation, and your reputation is your brand

Dave Allen

#48. The only problem with Republican principles is no one's following them.

Dave Brat

#49. Motto of the U.S. airline industry - "We're Hoping to Have a Motto Announcement in About an Hour."

Dave Barry

#50. The greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison Edison's first major invention, in 1877, was the phonograph, which could soon be found in thousands of American homes, where it basically sat until 1923, when the record was invented.

Dave Barry

#51. We're supposed to hate each other," he whispered. "What about all the things we've said? What's all that been?"
Dave felt more than heard Zeke laugh, and he shivered again as Zeke pulled back and whispered against his mouth, "Foreplay, Dave, that's what it's been.

Meredith Shayne

#52. There's a richness in older music that's been forgotten.

Dave Soldier

#53. Money is 80% behavior, 20% head knowledge. It's what you do, not what you know.

Dave Ramsey

#54. Dave Sim said in his latest thing of his, 'when you're on the right track, you'll know it, but until you get there, you have to believe you're on the right track'. Interesting little conundrum. It's not easy.

Eddie Campbell

#55. Who says we don't want to be inspired? We fucking want to be inspired! What the fuck is wrong with us wanting to be inspired? Everyone acts like it's some crazy idea, some outrageous ungrantable request. Don't we deserve grand human projects that give us meaning?

Dave Eggers

#56. Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be 'unseen'. There's no 'going back' to the person you were. Even if such a possibility did exist ... why would you want to?

Dave Sim

#57. The central point of this final chapter is that - follow my logic carefully here - unless you die, you will continue to get older. (It's insights like this that separate the professional book author from the person with a real job.)

Dave Barry

#58. We've been pretty lucky we've played with Feeder, Hundred Reasons and Puddle of Mud, but I think the one we're most proud of is playing with The Deftones because when we were kids they were everyone's favourite band. I think all our mates were pretty envious.

Dave McPherson

#59. I don't think that TV on the Radio is some dark mysterious band that no one can know about. We write music because it's an immediate form of communication. We're able to put on record what's happening in our times, and we want that message to be heard by the most amount of people.

Dave Sitek

#60. I am a bike enthusiast; there's a certain amount of romance to bikes. They're both beautiful and utilitarian.

Dave Eggers

#61. Never drink alone, that's what they say. But you know what? If you drink you will never be alone, alright?

Dave Attell

#62. You get the software you pay for. In every sense. To the nth degree. That's the way the world works.

Dave Winer

#63. People don't break up because someone's family is a little ... messy. If that were the case, no one would ever get married.

Laura Dave

#64. Jazz stands for freedom. It's supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don't be a perfectionist - leave that to the classical musicians.

Dave Brubeck

#65. In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them it's like trying to pick up lint with a magnet.

Dave Sim

#66. They sport haircuts that were apparently administered by a blind heroin addict in the men's room of a Bulgarian disco in 1978.

Dave Barry

#67. It takes a minimum of six people, working in close harmony, to successfully flush a nautical toilet. That's why those old ships carried such large crews.

Dave Barry

#68. What makes me laugh about politics, sometimes, is it seems like once we get to a point where our problems are seemingly unsolvable, it's because we're looking through a wrong point of view. If we turn the thing on its head, then maybe we might see it differently.

Dave Davies

#69. I've purposely stayed away from reading much about postmodern theory, and most everything I have read just bored me to tears. I don't think anybody's written about it, or very few have, with any verve.

Dave Eggers

#70. Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let's not forget this.

Dave Eggers

#71. You gotta make your own fun. That's right, listen to that mother of two, she knows what I'm talking about.

Dave Attell

#72. Dude, I love playing drums, and I love being on stage, and I love recording. It's my life ... it's been my life, all my life, and I don't think it could ever become boring for me.

Dave Lombardo

#73. Yes, actually. Animation's a very easy thing to watch on tour.

Dave Rowntree

#74. At the Grammys, you walk down the halls and everyone's got five security guards. You can't talk to anybody. You always feel out of place, like, 'Hey, the rednecks are in town!'

Dave Haywood

#75. When you just get fantasy stories that are about fairies or goblins, I just don't care. I'm never going to meet a goblin, it doesn't mean anything to me. So my definition of fantasy is very broad, it's anything to do with memory, or dreams, or ways of interpreting or making sense of the world.

Dave McKean

#76. I've always been interested in the form itself, so I always feel like I've never been good at going ahead with the artifice and not acknowledging the self in the artistic process, and not acknowledging the absurdity of pretending that's required in fiction.

Dave Eggers

#77. I think that's why I became good at art. It was something that I could do that I could be really proud of.

Dave Cooper

#78. Let's say you're in a situation where crystal meth can help you. Like, I don't know, you have too many teeth.

Dave Attell

#79. I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?

Dave Chappelle

#80. There's no point waking up in the morning feeling sorry for yourself.

Dave Davies

#81. Everybody in New York, including police horses, dresses fashionably, and whenever I'm there, even in my sharpest funeral-quality suit with no visible ketchup stains, I feel as though I'm wearing a Hefty trash bag. And it's last year's Hefty trash bag.

Dave Barry

#82. Let's put it this way: I did not get in trouble every time I drank, but every time I got in trouble, I'd been drinking.

Dave Mustaine

#83. I'll get a three-page letter and the last paragraph says 'I know you'll never read this, but here's my number.' I love to call those people because the first thing they say is, 'Governor, I didn't mean everything I said in the letter about you.'

Dave Heineman

#84. There's an old saying among scientific guys: "You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs, ideally by dropping a cement truck on them from a crane."

Dave Barry

#85. In physics: It's called simultaneity. In music: rhythm. In your life: epic failure.

Laura Dave

#86. You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you've done nothing good for yourself. That's the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished.

Dave Eggers

#87. I've always been ready to embrace what's around the corner because it might be just the thing that I need to help me grow.

Dave Davies

#88. I'm sitting in the bus station, minding my own business, reading 'Ta-Da!' magazine; a magazine by and for gay magicians, but that's a different story.

Dave Attell

#89. You see a guy with one leg, he's got a story. "Land mine '69." You see a guy with one arm, he's got a story, too. "Snow blower, bottle of whiskey." You see a guy with one tooth, what would the story be? "Well, uh, I like a lot of taffy."

Dave Attell

#90. Socialism always produces evil results, no matter one's intentions.

Dave Champion

#91. Funny the way it is, not right or wrong, somebody's heart is broken, and it becomes your favorite song.

Dave Matthews Band

#92. You look at Michael McDonald and people like that; I think they just tried to write music that was true to themselves. That's our bottom line. Whatever people view us as, I think as long as we try to create good music that will win out in the end.

Dave Haywood

#93. I've known Dave so long that I can tell what he's going to do before he does it. I don't want to meet the person who can predict what Luke's about to do; they'd have to be crazier than him.

Cath Crowley

#94. I hate to speak for the whole society, but I will. I'm a journalist, it's my job. There's been something of a reaction against political correctness. Needless to say, the government hasn't caught up yet.

Dave Barry

#95. The media does play a vital role in our democracy, and if we cannot depend on journalistic ethics, the nation's in trouble.

Dave Brat

#96. I think there's been a big problem between religion, or organized religion, and spirituality.

Dave Davies

#97. If hate's the gate to peace
This is the last stop

Dave Matthews Band

#98. There's war - there's always been war, as long as most of us have been alive. There have always been people being abused, there's always been horrible things in the world. Why are we outraged? We should just be quiet and figure it out, and work it out together.

Dave Matthews

#99. The most important thing for me is my family, and my health and happiness, and making sure everyone's cool.

Dave Grohl

#100. I think if you want to do a thing properly you have to take a lot of care. I've always found it's easier to draw comics if you know clearly in your head what you're drawing, rather than if you try and make it up as you go along.

Dave Gibbons