I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience...
DAVID ALMOND They say that shoulder blades are where your wings were, when you were an angel," she said. "They sa...
DAVID ALMOND Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you to see what you're looking at more cl...
DAVID ALMOND I went out into the corridor. I asked a nurse if she knew where the people with arthritis went. She ...
DAVID ALMOND Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in their jacket...
DAVID ALMOND It was great to see the owls," I said.
She smiled.
"Yes. They're wild things, of course. K...
DAVID ALMOND There's light and joy, but there's also darkness all around and we can be lost in it.
DAVID ALMOND Look at all the life in this," she said. "Every pip could become a tree, and every tree could bear a...
DAVID ALMOND Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.
DAVID ALMOND My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between...
DAVID ALMOND A school for the writing of nonsense and the pursuit of extraordinary activities.
DAVID ALMOND Everybody's got the seam of goodness in them, Kit," said Grandpa. "Just a matter of whether it can b...
DAVID ALMOND And I've been thinking: if the human race manages to destroy itself, as it often seems to want to do...
DAVID ALMOND Some say that you should turn your face from the light of the moon. They say it makes you mad.
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DAVID ALMOND Execution of this contract bridges the way to an additional 96 remanufactured AH-64Ds for the U.S. A...
DAVID ALMOND Sometimes we think we should be able to know everything. But we can't. We have to allow ourselves to...
DAVID ALMOND I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happeni...
DAVID ALMOND Themes around education and learning run through my work.
DAVID ALMOND The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.
DAVID ALMOND I learned to be a regional writer by reading people like Flannery O'Connor. She was a huge influ...
DAVID ALMOND It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educato...
DAVID ALMOND My next record I really just want it to be a collection of great songs, classic songs in a way.
MARC ALMOND I thinks it really interesting how they throw the world music samples in there. I often wonder what ...
MARC ALMOND I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
MARC ALMOND I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.
MARC ALMOND I mean whatever I do it's important that I put my stamp on it and keep it in my world, whether I...
MARC ALMOND I think in the past I think I probably was a little too diverse, probably went from one spectrum to ...
MARC ALMOND That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's alwa...
MARC ALMOND As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
MARC ALMOND The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album.
MARC ALMOND Knowing what I knew about Russia, as much as I loved the music and was fascinated by the songs and t...
MARC ALMOND Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
MARC ALMOND That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
MARC ALMOND For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I ...
MARC ALMOND I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for ...
MARC ALMOND These days i tend to use one project I do as a kind of offshoot to the next.
MARC ALMOND Russians have a new freedom, but as long as they don't express that freedom on a public platform...
MARC ALMOND We just kind saw the images and knew the cliches, so to have the opportunity to go there and learn s...
MARC ALMOND As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.
MARC ALMOND The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a cert...
MARC ALMOND I think the older I get the more creative I get, I don't have the distractions that I had when I...
MARC ALMOND It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
MARC ALMOND Every now and then, I'll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate, and while we live in a c...
STEVE ALMOND It was a big success.
JOSH ALMOND Most players on the team only have one or two years experience. Soccer and field hockey strategy as ...
JOSH ALMOND The social being for the more inexperienced players.
JOSH ALMOND This is a very diverse team. There are players from several countries on our team. The team is almos...
JOSH ALMOND It's going to be nice to get home but we still lost the game. We wanted to come out with a win.
DUSTIN ALMOND We're growing more as a team, and we're relying on each other, so it's definitely helping us out wit...
DUSTIN ALMOND I felt good (Saturday), ... The line gave me time, and our receivers made plays.
DUSTIN ALMOND The last time we couldn't get anything going, ... (Saturday), we made some plays and were able to do...
DUSTIN ALMOND It was 10 times better,
DUSTIN ALMOND We're going to take it as a challenge, ... We're looking forward to it.
DUSTIN ALMOND I feel things happen for a reason, ... It'll be for the well being of the team, definitely letting t...
DUSTIN ALMOND Like our motto says, that's how we're going to approach it. As a football team, we like challenges, ...
DUSTIN ALMOND It's real special to be a part of. He's a great coach and he deserves it. He pushes us and expects a...
DUSTIN ALMOND We've been try to move the football on the ground. It's something we've been trying to get accomplis...
DUSTIN ALMOND Law and order is now a big issue,
MARK ALMOND Presevo is about 90 percent ethnic Albanian -- it is a very tense place, I have been there myself --...
MARK ALMOND While Milosevic was in power all ethnic Albanians preferred having the west on their side.
MARK ALMOND The tragedy is that when a precision bomb hits a gas station surrounded by cottages, you discover th...
MARK ALMOND Their weapons are formidable, ... A coup would be very risky and would give NATO an excuse for finis...
MARK ALMOND For all the sound and the fury perhaps this is what Milosevic wants.
MARK ALMOND Nothing on Earth so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.
STEVE ALMOND It feels great. It really feels good. I'm proud of the guys. They put in the work.
NATHAN ALMOND It feels like a loss. We needed a win; a tie didn't help us. We had shots that were there, but we di...
NATHAN ALMOND I thought our kids responded well (after the goal). Alex came up with some big plays for us.
NATHAN ALMOND I knew Rogers would be tough. They have great ball control, they pass the ball well. I was wanting t...
NATHAN ALMOND It took us a little bit to adjust. It took us a little while, and it just started to come together f...
NATHAN ALMOND We needed to get our offense going. We really got it going tonight. We moved the ball around. We had...
NATHAN ALMOND A huge road win for us. It's our first conference game of the season. Our next three conference game...
NATHAN ALMOND You can play yourself into the first round through individual workouts with teams and with the pre-d...
MORRIS ALMOND They got off to a good start. A lot of that was our fault we just didn't come out ready to play.
MORRIS ALMOND He was very supportive of it. [Wilson] said he anticipated it, and he agreed with me in that I shoul...
MORRIS ALMOND The 36 points, I wasn't surprised with it being an overtime game. I'm only averaging four or five bo...
MORRIS ALMOND I don't enjoy being a celebrity, I don't want any part of that or any part of that fame for fame... ...
MARC ALMOND For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like...
MARC ALMOND I am deeply saddened and shocked by the death of Gene Pitney.
MARC ALMOND People are always reinventing music. We were an oddity when we formed, just a singer and a keyboard ...
MARC ALMOND There was always a dark element to our songs, some social commentary.
MARC ALMOND People are always reinventing music,
MARC ALMOND It's our most pop album since our first.
MARC ALMOND A couple of years ago, I called Dave up to write some songs. It just snowballed from there and becam...
MARC ALMOND It isn't the flavor of coconut that troubles me, but the texture I feel as if I'm chewing on a sweet...
STEVE ALMOND If I had been the kind of kid who kept a diary, the entries from the years 12 to say, 16, would have...
STEVE ALMOND To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature ...
STEVE ALMOND ...We don't choose our freaks, they choose us...We may not understand why we freak on a particular f...
STEVE ALMOND He was very supportive of it. [Wilson] said he anticipated it, and he agreed with me in that I shoul...
MORRIS ALMOND We put ourselves in a pretty good position. But we've got to finish, and that'll be a key in the nex...
SHAWN ALMOND You look at first round of district, we were in every game down the stretch. Just a couple things he...
SHAWN ALMOND I can't say enough how proud I am of them tonight.
SHAWN ALMOND I'm still trying to figure it out. Our kids just showed a lot of heart and a lot of character.
SHAWN ALMOND I think we were focused coming in. They beat us pretty good at our place and we wanted to bounce bac...
SHAWN ALMOND He got frustrated early. He really came back in the second half, played a solid game and really show...
SHAWN ALMOND We had a little spurt in the third quarter. We forced several turnovers and that got us up and made ...
SHAWN ALMOND We didn't play defense very well tonight. That's one thing we've relied on, one thing we've keyed on...
SHAWN ALMOND It's very even and that's what we've been talking about. Everybody can beat each other on any given ...
SHAWN ALMOND We played real well this morning and the game could have gone either way. We had a couple tough brea...
SHAWN ALMOND I was saddled with this strange name, which meant that I was constantly, constantly, being serenaded...
STEVE ALMOND The craziest Peep-related candy I've ever gotten is a chocolate egg with a Peep inside it. Someone w...
STEVE ALMOND The first half of the twentieth century was Boston's freak zenith. The city was home to 140 candy co...
STEVE ALMOND I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children ...
STEVE ALMOND Nothing on Earth (is) so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.
STEVE ALMOND At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware o...
STEVE ALMOND The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.
STEVE ALMOND 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