David Lyons Quotes

#1. Meltdown when we get home. Mom keeps chocolate for meltdowns. Daddy always has them when Uncle Jonas visits.
-David Lyons from Tanner's Scheme-

Lora Leigh

#2. I think you should only wear jewellery if it has a story behind it.

Robert Carlyle

#3. For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.

David Lyons

#4. If you're still waiting for it, it mean you're not yet ready for it ... whatever "it" is ... so stop looking at waiting as a punishment and start looking at it as preparation!

Mandy Hale

#5. There is a giant gulf between doing something and doing nothing. And someone who makes a lolcat and uploads it - even if only to crack their friends up - has already crossed that chasm to doing something. That's the sea change, and you can see it even with the cute cats.

Clay Shirky

#6. Fighting is dancing. Look at a great boxing match, and it's a dancing.

David Lyons

#7. I'm not saying you shouldn't pursue dreams and goals. Just don't forsake the present for the unknowns of the future. A lot of happiness is bypassed, overlooked, postponed to a time years from now that may never come. Don't bide your time and miss out on this moment for a tomorrow with no guarantee.

Kim Holden

#8. Is it the fault of wine if a fool drinks it and goes stumbling into darkness?

Avicenna

#9. Listening is the essence of anything.

David Lyons

#10. Humor is really laughing off a hurt, grinning at misery.

Bill Mauldin

#11. It's good to play something that's black and white, and a guy that sees right and wrong. I've never played a character like that.

David Lyons

#12. Us f'gotten slaves was bein' drained by hunger'n'pain an' the mozzies from the slopin' pond now an' we was envyin' that Hawi boy diresome, till at a nod from Lyons they ripped down Elfy's pants an' held him an' busted that boy's ring, oilin' his hole up with lardbird fat b'tween turns.

David Mitchell

#13. The truth
a hideous spectacle!

Conrad Aiken

#14. The thing about romance and romantic movies is that they can be somewhat melodramatic. For a lot of actors, there's a certain cringe factor that's involved with that.

David Lyons

#15. In the depths of a man's being there was something that responded with a quack to such perfume. Quack!

Saul Bellow

#16. When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.

Young Jeezy

#17. The measure of a superhero is always his nemesis.

David Lyons