David Daiches Quotes

#1. The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of culture, a manifesto of man's determination to use the resources of nature to refresh mind and body and enjoy to the full the senses with which he has been endowed.

David Daiches

#2. I'm an unpure purist, something like that.

Keith Richards

#3. Literature is man's exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.

David Daiches

#4. America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

David Riesman

#5. Mind only thinks, meditation lives.

Rajneesh

#6. In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words are so chosen as logically to bar out all possibilities save one.

David Daiches

#7. Hot heart-blood leaked from my face. From my eyes and my nose and my mouth. Not tears, because those would never stop. This was just liquid heartbreak seeping from my pores.

Jasinda Wilder

#8. Don't let the difficulty of actually achieving a shot make you think that the shot is good.

Sidney Lumet

#9. Taking responsibility for your life is the biggest challenge you will have, but it is also the most beautiful gift you can give yourself.

Steven Aitchison

#10. The spiritual commitment is to make every situation an object of devotional connection.

Marianne Williamson

#11. Jean-Baptiste Mondino: "She's John Lennon and Yoko Ono at the same time".

Madonna Ciccone

#12. The man deserved his fate, deny it who can; yes, but the fate did not deserve the man.

Plato

#13. I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.

Tom Stoppard

#14. If you want to get caught robbing a bank, just write your holdup note on the back of one of your own checks or deposit slips. It happens about forty-five times a year in the United States, according to the FBI.

Cary McNeal