David Ignatow Quotes

#1. I'm a big fan of unflinching drama and bold drama. If you shy away from dark subject matters, there's only certain places for TV drama to go. If there are shows that can break through that and be brave, those are the shows that I personally enjoy watching. I try and do work that I would watch.

Joe Dempsie

#2. Until the building of Solomon's temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand.

Julius Wellhausen

#3. If we believe that the sun and moon hang in the sky for our delight, there will be joy upon the hills and gladness in the fields.

Helen Keller

#4. If flowers want to grow right out of concrete sidewalk cracks I'm going to bend down and smell them.

David Ignatow

#5. Standing beside you,
I took an oath
to make your life simpler
by complicating mine
and what I always thought
would happen did:
I was lifted up in joy.

David Ignatow

#6. I make a fair amount of my food choices for environmental-type reasons than nutrition or taste. I'm trying to minimize impact, which is something most people don't necessarily think about when they're shopping.

Alex Honnold

#7. The fear of being vulnerable prompts me into bringing myself forward.

David Ignatow

#8. The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay.

Samuel Johnson

#9. The burden of living one's own life is experiencing sensations that no one else can share.

David Ignatow

#10. I don't necessarily want to make people stomp and clap. I simply want to engage people.

Patrick DeWitt

#11. Many cultures accept the faulty nature of memory. They know even the photograph only gets it halfway right. They believe there is only one way to bring the dead back to life, story.

Jon Chopan

#12. I should be content
to look at a mountain
for what it is
and not as a comment on my life.

David Ignatow

#13. I wish I understood the beauty
in leaves falling. To whom
are we beautiful
as we go?

David Ignatow

#14. The equivalent of five jumbo jets' worth of women die in labor each day, but the issue is almost never covered.

Nicholas D. Kristof

#15. I like rust on a nail, fog on a mountain. Clouds hide stars, rooms have doors, eyes close, and the same words that began love end it with changed emphasis.

David Ignatow

#16. One leaf left on a branch and not a sound of sadness or despair. One leaf left on a branch and no unhappiness. One leaf left all by itself in the air and it does not speak of loneliness or death. One leaf and it spends itself in swaying mildly in the breeze.

David Ignatow

#17. One can fall in love as often as a tree grows leaves. It is perfectly natural but not free of guilt and complications, unless one takes oneself to be a leaf.

David Ignatow