Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.


David Deutsch

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.
JOSH BILLINGS
If only common sense were more common.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
A Common Man who has Common Sense is better qualified to Lead than a Leader who has no sense of the ...
J.J. BOWLERS
Common sense is not so common.
VOLTAIRE
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
BARON D'HOLBACH
Soap and water and common sense are the best disinfectants.
WILLIAM OSLER
Rule-following, legal precedence, and political consistency are not more important than right, justi...
W. E. B. DU BOIS
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses...
ISABEL ALLENDE
[Common sense] is the best sense I know of.
LORD CHESTERFIELD
Common sense, to most people, is nothing more than their own opinions.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819
PIERRE-SIMON LAPLACE
I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.
THOMAS PAINE
The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.
EURIPIDES
What makes sense these days? Sense is common; Common sense is rare
GWEN MERKELBACH
On Common Sense:
Common sense isn't.
Corollary: Uncommon sense is.
KALIFER DEIL
Common sense is not so common.
VOLTAIRE (FRANçOIS-MARIE AROUET)
Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.
AN WANG
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
CLIVE JAMES
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
WILLIAM JAMES
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...
LYN KAROL
Alas, common sense is not so common.
MUHAMMED HAIDER
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense
VOLTAIRE
If common sense prevails, ... common sense can get an agreement.
GARY DOER
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he alre...
RENE DESCARTES
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he alre...
DESCARTES
Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he alre...
RENE DESCARTES
Common sense ain't common.
WILL ROGERS
With age comes common sense and wisdom.
NAS
Common sense is the genius of humanity.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common hones...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
There's no mystique to acting. It's only common sense - and a bit of courage.
BILL HUNTER
It's just not a good idea to drink and drive; that is just common sense. But common sense is not...
MADELINE ZIMA
People think common sense is common - but it's not.
DON CHERRY
'Common sense isn't common place'.
RICHARD 'GRIMESY' GRIMES
Common sense is what tells us the Earth is flat and the Sun goes around it.
ANON.
Common sense is instinct, and enough of it is genius.
JOSH BILLINGS
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is t...
F. L. LUCAS
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
C. E. STOWE
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to
GEORGE SEATON
Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
ED HOWE
Sense is never common.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN
In this life you've got to hope for the best, prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.
L.M. MONTGOMERY
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the
inherent vice of soci...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and ra...
THOMAS PAINE
A person can be made to awake to own senses only to the extent s/he is not fake to the people.
ANUJ SOMANY
There is a chalk outline being drawn around common sense, and most people cannot even identify the v...
DENNIS MILLER
At least Nebraska is doing that. Nebraska does show some common sense.
JOHN PINKERTON
If every human is blessed with common sense by the creator, the world would have been a much better ...
CHANDRABABU V.S.
I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary c...
DWIGHT DAVID EISENHOWER
A person speaks about his or her level of COMMON SENSE by showing the depth of reverence towards the...
ANUJ SOMANY
It does not make any sense to talk with a common sense to a person who has almost all thinking commo...
ANUJ SOMANY
If you have an ounce of common sense and one good friend you don't need an analyst.
JOAN CRAWFORD
[It is] surpassingly strange, ... put their common sense on hold.
EDWARD O. WILSON
Looking at these numbers, what do they tell anyone who's got any common sense? Everything you're see...
RICHARD HARRIS
One idea that everybody who has common sense ought to agree on is the last thing we need is higher g...
KEN MEHLMAN
We all use our five physical senses on a daily basis but sometimes forget common sense.
JAIME CONTRERAS
Common sense is for our lack of wisdom.
MONK FROST
The only thing a person can never have too much of is common sense.
KATHRYN SMITH
It is a tragic case of overloading the back porches, ... use common sense.
JAMES JOYCE (CHICAGO FIRE COMMISSIONER)
The question of common sense is ''what is it good for?'' A question which would abolish the rose and...
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL
It’s not that blue-collar philosophy is misunderstood, it’s that blue-collar philosophy shouldn�...
MICK LEXINGTON
If one divided all of human science into two parts - the one common to all men, the other particular...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
There has to be a certain amount of common sense. As we know, common sense isn't that common.
KRISTIN ACCIPITER
THE SIXTH SENSE IS THE COMMON-SENSE !
DR.PRASAD RAJHANS
The best part of being blonde is forgivable momentary lapses of common sense.
CAITY LOTZ
Victims recite problems. Leaders develop solutions. That might seem like common sense, but common se...
ROBIN S. SHARMA
The five senses are horse sense, innocence, common sense, concupiscence, and nonsense.
SOURCE UNKNOWN
Common sense is calculation applied to life.
HENRI FREDERIC AMIEL
Philosophy is common sense with big words.
JAMES MADISON
Romantics consider common sense vulgar.
MASON COOLEY
Why is it that common sense is seldom common practice?
ELIYAHU GOLDRATT
Our future is our sense of common destiny.
AHMET DAVUTOGLU
Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
E. W. HOWE
Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eig...
ALBERT EINSTEIN
They just put common sense to it.
BILLY LYNCH
Decency and common sense are not distributed evenly at birth.
ASSYA MOUSSAID
A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
CLIVE JAMES
The privacy laws are paramount. They come before even common sense...
MICHAEL SWANWICK
That's common sense. We're not there yet.
LEE HAMILTON
The evolution revolution is here. Global sense makes common sense.
JUDAH FREED
I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.
WAYNE BRADY
Common sense hides shame.
GAELIC PROVERB
Common sense hides shame.
SCOTTISH PROVERB
We think it makes constitutional sense and common sense to protect our children from exposure to sen...
TOM DRESSLAR
Nonsense is good only because common sense is so limited.
GEORGE SANTAYANA
High politic is only common sense applied to great things.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Only cricket can make a moment like this so confusing and messed up. COMMON SENSE please.
DAVE FORREST
Nose-to-tail eating is not a bloodlust, testosterone-fueled offal hunt. It's common sense, and i...
FERGUS HENDERSON
Everybody thinks himself so well supplied with common sense that even those most difficult to please...
RENE DESCARTES
Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest ...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
I'm not ruthless. It's common sense that's ruthless.
ARNOLD BENNETT
Each situation can be different, depending on where you are. Objective rules are less important than...
DAVID BATES
Someone should patent Common Sense, and make it free for humanity.
CHRIS W. MORRIS (CHRISTOPHER WILLIAM MORRIS)
I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Common sense is seeing things as they are; and doing things as they ought to be.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE
intuition is always right in at least two important ways;
It is always in response to something...
GAVIN DE BECKER

More David Deutsch

Quantum computation is... a distinctively new way of harnessing nature... It will be the first techn...
DAVID DEUTSCH
To me quantum computation is a new and deeper and better way to understand the laws of physics, and ...
DAVID DEUTSCH
The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulat...
DAVID DEUTSCH
It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environ...
DAVID DEUTSCH
I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn'...
DAVID DEUTSCH
Time travel may be achieved one day, or it may not. But if it is, it should not require any fundamen...
DAVID DEUTSCH
The overwhelming majority of theories are rejected because they contain bad explanations, not becaus...
DAVID DEUTSCH
Necessary truth is merely the subject-matter of mathematics, not the reward we get for doing mathema...
DAVID DEUTSCH
I myself believe that there will one day be time travel because when we find that something isn't fo...
DAVID DEUTSCH
The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some trou...
DAVID DEUTSCH
Every problem that is interesting is also soluble.
DAVID DEUTSCH
The next chapter is likely to provoke many mathematicians. This can't be helped. Mathematics is not ...
DAVID DEUTSCH
The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why ...
DAVID DEUTSCH
The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexi...
DAVID DEUTSCH
The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche...
DAVID DEUTSCH
Where we have good, testable explanations, they then have to be tested, and we drop the ones that fa...
DAVID DEUTSCH
Humans may or may not have cosmic significance, and if they do, it will be by hitching a ride on the...
DAVID DEUTSCH
I don't think it would be a good idea for scientists to have more political power. Scientists as...
DAVID DEUTSCH
Is the human race a universal constructor?
DAVID DEUTSCH
Science is objective. And in my view we cannot take any experimental results seriously except in the...
DAVID DEUTSCH
After all, the ultimate goal of all research is not objectivity, but truth.
HELENE DEUTSCH
The only thing I hated about the agency business was a lot of business travel. It was the only part ...
DONNY DEUTSCH
I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that th...
ARMAND DEUTSCH
The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myse...
HELENE DEUTSCH
All observations point to the fact that the intellectual woman is masculinized; in her, warm, intuit...
HELENE DEUTSCH
Who always only dreams of luck shouldn’t be surprised if he oversleeps it.
ERNST DEUTSCH
Muhtar is a man of the highest integrity. That occurred more than seven years ago and was dealt with...
BEN DEUTSCH
[Whittington] would be first team in the Colonial League. She is tough. She made some good moves. Th...
CHRIS DEUTSCH
There is an eaglet. I was out there (Wednesday) afternoon, and I saw it from the top of the levee wi...
CHARLIE DEUTSCH
That's the weakest link in the whole chain.
MARY DEUTSCH
He was angry. Wanted to lash out (by starting a fire) to seek empowerment. He would then sometimes r...
DUSTIN DEUTSCH
Changes in my personal life are nerve-racking for me.
DONNY DEUTSCH
Then they saw him pull out in a white Honda with the headlights off and drive to the scene, where th...
DUSTIN DEUTSCH
You never know. If I tell you the Champagne bottles that I didn't open in 1981 when I heard that War...
HOWARD DEUTSCH
[But he's not celebrating yet.] You never know, ... If I tell you the Champagne bottles that I didn'...
HOWARD DEUTSCH
[But he's not celebrating yet.] You never know, ... If I tell you the champagne bottles that I didn'...
HOWARD DEUTSCH
You never know. If I tell you the champagne bottles that I didn't open in 1981 when I heard that War...
HOWARD DEUTSCH
A few of the photographers said the adults have been feeding at least one chick and possibly two the...
CHARLIE DEUTSCH
You should have seen the crowd at the game [against Catasauqua in a doubleheader Jan. 10]. It was ne...
CHRIS DEUTSCH
It couldn't happen to a better person. She is one of the hardest working players I've ever coached ?...
CHRIS DEUTSCH
You know you're doing what you love when Sunday nights feel the same as Friday nights....
DONNY DEUTSCH
Both parents expressed complete shock and disappointment after their son was arrested on the arson c...
DUSTIN DEUTSCH
It was no mystery why Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold had singled me out as a prime prospect for the...
ARMAND DEUTSCH
The embattled gates to equal rights indeed opened up for modern women, but I sometimes think to myse...
HELENE DEUTSCH
We have less than 20 days to create a solid argument that this project requires a full environmental...
MARY DEUTSCH
It's not just a filtering function.
LARRY DEUTSCH
He did not see himself as a guru of the music world.
HERB DEUTSCH
Suddenly, there was a whole group of people in the world looking for a new sound in music, and it pi...
HERB DEUTSCH
The idea of a producer taking his show off the air that was successful, that was so good, and so far...
HOWARD DEUTSCH
It's a classic, and it's been relevant to three generations of children.
HOWARD DEUTSCH
[Mr. Deutsch said:] I'm a little blown away to hear that he said that about me. This was resolved in...
HOWARD DEUTSCH
That's one of those moments I think everyone remembers where they were. I was sitting right behind O...
LINDA DEUTSCH
You need time and a forum to find out [the marketing staff's] philosophy and needs. You can get that...
LARRY DEUTSCH
If we can be this successful without advertising, imagine how well we can do with it.
LARRY DEUTSCH
It's better when the client doesn't have to play traffic cop.
LARRY DEUTSCH
More and more marketers are on a quest to prove that marketing is more than advertising. Senior mana...
LARRY DEUTSCH
Poetry is the fiery index to the genius of the age.
BABETTE DEUTSCH
At the ESD (Eastern South Dakota Conference meet) we were just one point away from Pierre. In return...
JENNIFER DEUTSCH
That got them pumped and the scores were pretty good. The bars went well and we ended with the vault...
JENNIFER DEUTSCH
After Saturday we'll find out if we fall into the next highest team scores. We're pretty hopeful tha...
JENNIFER DEUTSCH
Without a doubt, any post-election coordination between Rep. Buyer and the Pentagon over private vot...
PETER DEUTSCH
My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think ...
DAVID DAVID KATZMAN
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil...
LARRY DAVID
The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar...
DAVID HAREWOOD
Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world....
DAVID HAREWOOD
In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to ...
DAVID COVERDALE
George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted abo...
DAVID LANGE
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k...
DAVID LYNCH
Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a...
DAVID CHALMERS
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
DAVID HARE
The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar...
DAVID TENNANT
It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik...
DAVID LETTERMAN
Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i...
DAVID CRYSTAL
I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
DAVID BAILEY
Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le...
DAVID BAILEY
The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. The...
DAVID BAILEY
I always go for simplicity.
DAVID BAILEY
I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
DAVID BAILEY
All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It wa...
DAVID BAILEY
You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
DAVID BAILEY
I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
DAVID BAILEY
People want security in this insecure world.
DAVID BAILEY
I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
DAVID BAILEY
It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to ea...
DAVID BAILEY
Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
DAVID BAILEY
Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
DAVID BAILEY
Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out...
DAVID BAILEY
I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can p...
DAVID BAILEY
If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
DAVID BAILEY
I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other ...
DAVID BAILEY
The skull is nature's sculpture.
DAVID BAILEY
Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
DAVID BAILEY
Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
DAVID BAILEY
Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth...
DAVID BOWIE
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood...
LARRY DAVID
You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i...
DAVID BOWIE
People use irony as a defense mechanism.
DAVID BYRNE
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and ...
DAVID BYRNE
I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go...
DAVID BYRNE
Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
DAVID BYRNE
I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
DAVID BYRNE
I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. ...
DAVID BYRNE
That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
DAVID BYRNE
Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their d...
DAVID BYRNE
If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's rea...
DAVID BYRNE
My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
DAVID BYRNE
On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the go...
DAVID BYRNE
I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
DAVID BYRNE
The arts don't exist in isolation.
DAVID BYRNE
There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide ex...
DAVID BYRNE
Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
DAVID BYRNE
Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown...
DAVID BYRNE
Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It cle...
DAVID BYRNE
You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
DAVID BYRNE
You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
DAVID BYRNE
Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away f...
DAVID BYRNE
Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
DAVID BYRNE
I like time off. I'm not a workaholic.
DAVID THEWLIS
I've had an awful lot of good fortune.
DAVID CASSIDY
Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is.
DAVID CASSIDY
What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became s...
DAVID CASSIDY
There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives.
DAVID CASSIDY
You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.
DAVID CASSIDY
Most people view success by the results, and I don't.
DAVID CASSIDY
I think of my career as something apart from myself.
DAVID CASSIDY
You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear aft...
DAVID CASSIDY
I wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lo...
DAVID CASSIDY
Let me tell you, 10,000 is an intimate room. Believe me. I want to be able to connect to everybody i...
DAVID CASSIDY
When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vigne...
DAVID CASSIDY
Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life - the fear and self-doubt and unresolved is...
DAVID CASSIDY
I gave up my whole life to my career.
DAVID CASSIDY
Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.
DAVID CASSIDY
There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become ...
DAVID CASSIDY
It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.
DAVID CASSIDY
It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, ...
DAVID CASSIDY
If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your ...
DAVID CASSIDY
Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: '...
DAVID CASSIDY
I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.
DAVID CASSIDY
I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.
DAVID CASSIDY
Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they we...
DAVID CASSIDY
I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically alig...
DAVID CASSIDY
Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, ...
DAVID CASSIDY
It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on televis...
DAVID CASSIDY
Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.
DAVID CASSIDY
I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for...
DAVID CASSIDY
I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.
DAVID CASSIDY
Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.
DAVID CASSIDY
My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.
DAVID CASSIDY
The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.
DAVID CASSIDY
It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.
DAVID CASSIDY
I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took bi...
DAVID CASSIDY
Nobody likes to be rejected, you know?
DAVID CASSIDY
I nearly died twice after I replaced Michael Crawford in 'EFX.'
DAVID CASSIDY
I work for me, 18 hours a day. It's my gig. So I don't have time to get a point of view.
DAVID CASSIDY
I don't listen to the news or read newspapers. I don't know what's going on in this worl...
DAVID CASSIDY
You cannot make a teenage idol.
DAVID CASSIDY
It's a difficult journey when you're going through a divorce, is it not, for anyone?
DAVID CASSIDY
Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.
DAVID CASSIDY
I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and perfo...
DAVID CASSIDY
If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was i...
DAVID CASSIDY
I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on ...
DAVID CASSIDY
I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and ...
DAVID CASSIDY
I look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat und...
DAVID CASSIDY
I have an audience that goes from kids to seventy year olds.
DAVID CASSIDY
All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger...
DAVID BOWIE
I read in one fan magazine that I was very self-centered. And I am.
DAVID CASSIDY
We are too occupied with celebrity. Believe me, it's not what it's cracked to be.
DAVID CASSIDY
All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and ...
DAVID CASSIDY
Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'
DAVID CASSIDY
My mother, Evelyn, was an actress and singer, and my father, Jack, was an actor. My earliest recolle...
DAVID CASSIDY
Once they began doing 'Celebrity Apprentice,' apparently the audience wasn't that keen o...
DAVID CASSIDY
My music was never considered cool, but I've always felt that connection with the audience.
DAVID CASSIDY
I've always had a special relationship with the U.K. fans, because even when I wasn't workin...
DAVID CASSIDY
My dad left when I was 3 1/2, and he left my mom and I.
DAVID CASSIDY
I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.
DAVID CASSIDY
I don't need to remind myself of the trophies. I know what I accomplished.
DAVID CASSIDY
What I want is credibility I got as a songwriter and actor and doing 'Blood Brothers' on Bro...
DAVID CASSIDY
In the '80s, it was difficult and frustrating to appear in the theater and TV again, even though...
DAVID CASSIDY
All that stuff - 'teen idol' - that wasn't me.
DAVID CASSIDY
I wasn't ever a bad guy, and I was never arrested or anything like that, but I was a wild boy in...
DAVID CASSIDY
I saw Jimi Hendrix - it must have been four times. And he was incomparable, and his legend lives on.
DAVID CASSIDY
Acting was absolutely my first focus. I graduated high school in L.A., and two weeks afterwards, I m...
DAVID CASSIDY
I've really sensed that people have an affection for me.
DAVID CASSIDY
I've done an enormous amount of bringing light into people's lives, and I'm very proud o...
DAVID CASSIDY
I bought my first horse when I was 15. I always loved racing and I started studying about breeding a...
DAVID CASSIDY
I've always had a love for horses since I was really young. When I was 5 years old, the only thi...
DAVID CASSIDY
My mother gave up a good part of her career to look after me.
DAVID CASSIDY
In a very short period of time, actors can become kind of relevant and hot.
DAVID CASSIDY
I played in garage bands and rock and roll bands when I was in junior high and high school and saw s...
DAVID CASSIDY
I found myself very lost after 'The Partridge Family,' and I lost my dad and I lost my manag...
DAVID CASSIDY
I've been able to go on and have a successful career on Broadway and certainly the last five yea...
DAVID CASSIDY
It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes.
DAVID CASSIDY
We live in a world of strange priorities, where Kim Kardashian buying a Lamborghini creates internat...
DAVID HAREWOOD
The law always limits every power it gives.
DAVID HUME
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million differe...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination.
DAVID RUSSELL
False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
DAVID MITCHELL
This whole world is wild at heart and weird on top.
DAVID LYNCH
I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that...
DAVID HARSANYI