David Shapiro Quotes

#1. Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote.

Gary North

#2. It is a life's task to find the ways you want to play an endless game of uncontrol- lable beauty

David Shapiro

#3. I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

David Shapiro

#4. I love being a lawyer more than I like writing.

David Shapiro

#5. The way other people fantasize about surprise inheritances, firts-glance love, and endless white empyreal pastures, Mitchell dreamed of an erupting supervolcano that would bury North America under a foot of hot ash.

Nathaniel Rich

#6. She cries in my arms and I try not to cry. We have never said "I love you" to each other, but it doesn't matter, I don't think.

David Shapiro

#7. I'm kind of putting my toe back in the water and seeing how it feels. We're going to be doing stuff we haven't done for years and years and years. So I'm looking forward to seeing how this stuff flies.

Billy Joel

#8. The applause of all but very good men is no more than the precise measure of their possible hostility.

Alec Guinness

#9. But on some days I will write a post and it does not get as manny Notes as the post I wrote the day before, and I will walk home and think nervously about it, like, "Am I out of good ideas?

David Shapiro

#10. Towns were the nursery of freedom.

Lord Acton

#11. Everybody who served in John Kerry's boat under his command, save one, has stood with him.

Mark Shields

#12. There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.

David Shapiro

#13. Whenever I saw her, I felt like I had been living in another country, doing moderately well in another language, and then she showed up speaking English and suddenly I could speak with all the complexity and nuance that I hadn't realized was gone. With Lucy I was a native speaker.

Ann Patchett

#14. I wasn't running now so much as stumbling quickly, panting like a geriatric lion.

Nicole Peeler

#15. I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers.

David Shapiro

#16. Sampling, statisticians have told us, is a much more effective way of getting a good census.

Rob Lowe

#17. The virus of irony is as widespread in California as herpes, and once you're infected with it, it lives in your brain forever.

Neal Stephenson

#18. It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so often called themselves reason and science.

Marilynne Robinson

#19. The serious fact is that the bulk of the really important things economics has to teach are things that people would see for themselves if they were willing to see. - Frank Knight, "The Role of Principles in Economics and Politics

Bryan Caplan

#20. I love 'Drake and Josh.' It's supposed to have a demographic of ages 9-14, but really, it's 9-84. There is no demographic.

Drake Bell

#21. I believe that sitting naked across from your adversary in a steam room makes negotiations more productive.

David Shapiro

#22. Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do.

David Shapiro

#23. I buy us each a 40 oz. of Coors Light because right off the bat, it's important that she knows I am the kind of guy who drinks 40s, not like wine or craft beer or stuff like that.

David Shapiro

#24. What is the truth of a truth?

Jerry Zak

#25. I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

David Shapiro

#26. Aristotle said 'we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.'" He

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