Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Byrne

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

David Byrne

I'm not suggesting people abandon musical instruments and start playing their cars and apartments, but I do think the reign of music as a commodity made only by professionals might be winding down.

David Byrne

I don't think people are going to switch over to bikes because it's good for them or because it's politically correct. They're going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.

David Byrne

I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.

David Byrne

With pop music, the format dictates the form to a big degree. Just think of the pop single. It has endured as a form even in the download age because bands conform to a strict format, and work, often very productively, within the parameters.

David Byrne

It's more about the stuff you think about when you're getting from place to place on a bicycle than it is about actually riding the bicycle.

David Byrne

So there's no guarantee if you like the music you will empathize with the culture and the people who made it. It doesn't necessarily happen. I think it can, but it doesn't necessarily happen. Which is kind of a shame.

Dave Hickey

I think that if you don't like something and it's not easy, you shouldn't be doing it.

Dave Hickey

In my experience, you always think you know what you're doing; you always think you can explain, but you always discover, years later, that you didn't and you couldn't. This leads me to suspect that the principal function of human reason is to rationalize what your lizard brain demands of you. That's my idea.

Dave McKean

There is nobody who is good or bad, it's just not like that. They all are complex individuals. They all see the world in their own way that makes complete sense to them. Nobody goes around feeling that they're evil - they think that they're doing the right thing. And so that seems to have something really important, big, and deep to say about human beings.

Dave McKean

So I really love this very difficult feeling of being completely out at sea. I don't know what I'm doing, and I kind of like this feeling. So I think for the moment, I'm going to continue to try and nail film down in some sort of shape where I'm happy with it.

Dave McKean

I like being able to do anything. I think that's healthy, doing anything and everything, rather than just getting completely obsessed with one particular genre or particular kind of work.

Darren Hayes

If you think I have a great voice and body, youll be shocked as hell seeing and hearing me in the shower.

Darren Hayes

When I was 10 I used to walk around shopping centres and go, "Oh, they've recognised me!" And I would think, "hold on, who am I? I'm nobody famous yet!" - Darren on 60 Minutes

Darryl Dawkins

I think I got hooked up because I try to do good things with the NBA, and they always want somebody who's notable and who's personable with people.

Dave Matthews

Every day things change, but basically they stay the same

Dave Matthews

If you hold on tight to what you think is your thing you may find you re missing all the rest

Dave Matthews

I think some people would say that I do overwhelm the words with the music, and sometimes thank goodness I do.

Dave Matthews

I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.

Dave Matthews

Sitting still as stone watching - watching People walking by you wondering why No one ever stops to talk or thinks about it - if they ever did

Dave Matthews

People are not very pro-active in general, I think, because we are too busy rushing blindly towards our own goals.

Dave Matthews

I think we should all talk to our enemies and talk to our friends. Talk! That's the only way we'll find solutions.

Dave Eggers

I think there's great value to the Associated Press and to Reuters, but if you wanted to generate original content, maybe written by local writers, it just takes a little bit of openness to open your pages up to a wider freelance writer pool, and then you might find new voices and a wider array of voices, and definitely more original content that can't be found anywhere else.

Dave Eggers

I'm better than you think. I'm even better than I think I am.

Dave Eggers

I think I'm far too hopeful and trusting. That's something I got from my mum.

Dave Eggers

But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.

Dave Eggers

Everyone in the life before was cranky, I think, because they just wanted to know. --After I Was Thrown in the River and Before I Drowned

Dave Eggers

Still though, I think if you're not self-obsessed, you're probably boring.

Dave Eggers

I think there's a future where the Web and print coexist and they each do things uniquely and complement each other, and we have what could be the ultimate and best-yet array of journalistic venues.

Dave Eggers

Live long enough and you'll disappoint everyone. People think you're able to help them and usually you can't. And so it becomes a process of choosing the one or two people you try hardest not to disappoint. The person in my life I am determined not to disappoint is you.

Dave Eggers

The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.

Dave Eggers

She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.

David Legwand

It really helps to take a breath and think about what you really want to do out there.