Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactl...
DAVID NICHOLLS Live each day as if it's your last', that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energ...
DAVID NICHOLLS To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little wei...
DAVID NICHOLLS I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, ...
DAVID NICHOLLS If I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It wo...
DAVID NICHOLLS If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day y...
DAVID NICHOLLS A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart i...
DAVID NICHOLLS These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but th...
DAVID NICHOLLS If you have to keep something secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!
DAVID NICHOLLS There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about b...
DAVID NICHOLLS You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life i...
DAVID NICHOLLS I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow u...
DAVID NICHOLLS No-one ever built a statue of a critic.
DAVID NICHOLLS She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best founta...
DAVID NICHOLLS Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word ...
DAVID NICHOLLS She was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same-you couldn't just soak it ...
DAVID NICHOLLS Maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end ...
DAVID NICHOLLS The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a difference. Not change th...
DAVID NICHOLLS He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random it would be a cool ph...
DAVID NICHOLLS Friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of t...
DAVID NICHOLLS Envy was just the tax you paid on success.
DAVID NICHOLLS I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very...
DAVID NICHOLLS I read a lot of F. Scott Fitzgerald. I love 'Tender is the Night,' and its atmosphere of doo...
DAVID NICHOLLS I don't think this is really his trip as he would probably prefer six furlongs but he was given a gr...
DAVID NICHOLLS For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching i...
DAVID NICHOLLS Can I say something?'
'Go on'
'I'm a little drunk'
'Me too. That's okay.'
'Just....
DAVID NICHOLLS [He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there...
DAVID NICHOLLS He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool p...
DAVID NICHOLLS When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movi...
DAVID NICHOLLS Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it
DAVID NICHOLLS I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious f...
DAVID NICHOLLS If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particula...
DAVID NICHOLLS If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.
DAVID NICHOLLS Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process...
DAVID NICHOLLS Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out...
DAVID NICHOLLS Live each day as if it’s your last’, that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the e...
DAVID NICHOLLS I hate this complete obsession with class, especially at this place, you can hardly say 'hello' to a...
DAVID NICHOLLS What are you going to do with your life?" In one way or another it seemed that people had been askin...
DAVID NICHOLLS I was wary of my sister's cooking, which invariably consisted of a tubular pasta and economy cheese,...
DAVID NICHOLLS Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. ...
DAVID NICHOLLS This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
DAVID NICHOLLS We'll play it by ear. He's in good form himself so we'll just have to see on a weekly basis.
DAVID NICHOLLS He's had quite a hard season for a young horse so maybe we'll see him next year, or maybe we'll see ...
DAVID NICHOLLS My wife, Alex rides him every day and has always said he's a good horse,
DAVID NICHOLLS This isn't a letter, it's a gift.
DAVID NICHOLLS …and you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing,...
DAVID NICHOLLS So - whatever happened to you?'
'Life. Life happened.
DAVID NICHOLLS Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.
DAVID NICHOLLS The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets...
DAVID NICHOLLS You can live your whole life not realising that what you're looking for is right in front of you.
DAVID NICHOLLS Paris was all so... Parisian. I was captivated by the wonderful wrongness of it all - the unfamiliar...
DAVID NICHOLLS its almost as if he was raised by wolves, but wolves who knew the value of a decent education.
DAVID NICHOLLS This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life...
DAVID NICHOLLS Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.
DAVID NICHOLLS At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
DAVID NICHOLLS I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get ou...
DAVID NICHOLLS I usually write on a computer - unless I get stuck, at which point I switch to write by hand. I thin...
DAVID NICHOLLS If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of pr...
DAVID NICHOLLS Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted '...
DAVID NICHOLLS I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at univer...
DAVID NICHOLLS David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to cha...
DAVID NICHOLLS I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing ...
DAVID NICHOLLS I think probably I'm quite sentimental; I like big emotional stories, I like being moved by thin...
DAVID NICHOLLS Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.
DAVID NICHOLLS My 20s was a sea of worry. I worried about benefit forms, about being thrown out of my flat. I never...
DAVID NICHOLLS As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't...
DAVID NICHOLLS Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably...
DAVID NICHOLLS An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they...
DAVID NICHOLLS I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the sa...
DAVID NICHOLLS There's no shortage of orphans in 19th-century literature, but it's hard to find a single ha...
DAVID NICHOLLS A screenplay is really an instruction manual, and it can be interpreted in any number of ways. The c...
DAVID NICHOLLS When I was an actor, I worked with lots of men who had a bit of success early on, who were very good...
DAVID NICHOLLS No Scrabble. More and more of his friends were playing it now, in a knowing ironic way, triple-word-...
DAVID NICHOLLS Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why ...
DAVID NICHOLLS I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.
DAVID NICHOLLS Light travels differently in a room that contains another person; it reflects and refracts so that e...
DAVID NICHOLLS From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpo...
DAVID NICHOLLS There's no point having wishes if you don't at least try to do them
SALLY NICHOLLS You could meet Alf Roberts riding on a horse in the middle of the Sahara Desert and still know he?s ...
SUE NICHOLLS He went there and worked over a mile and six furlongs with [jockey] Ruby Walsh. Liam Heard rode Le P...
PAUL NICHOLLS Sometimes laws are bad because they are undemocratic and sometimes laws are bad because they are arc...
GERRY NICHOLLS In essence there are three studies underway.
STEVE NICHOLLS This is to bring home a message to the new government that they have a mandate to make government mo...
GERRY NICHOLLS Same-sex divides all parties, Liberals included, and a better bet for the Tories would be to come ou...
GERRY NICHOLLS Politics is all about defining yourself and the party you lead before others can define you.
GERRY NICHOLLS Ultimately, it is about finding what works for you. Building up a business doesn't have to be diffic...
JACKIE NICHOLLS Get in touch with the women's team at the local golf club. Offer to do a free demonstration; introdu...
JACKIE NICHOLLS One of the most common mistakes is a failure to plan. You need to think about who you want to target...
JACKIE NICHOLLS Fun is essential to mastering the serious side of life. It provides the balance that keeps us sane
PETER NICHOLLS Alan signed for us early in the season, but hasn't been able to play for the past couple of months b...
MARK NICHOLLS It's about time I made a shot.
MARK NICHOLLS I wouldn't expect any changes to the starting line-up. It was pretty much one way traffic from what ...
MARK NICHOLLS It looks a competitive race. But at his best he is in with a big chance. He likes Cheltenham and I w...
PAUL NICHOLLS God is not interested in our small mentality and our foolish perceptions. God is interested in the p...
PASTOR FERDINAND NICHOLLS 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