Dave Quotes - Page 4

• I was a big Dave Winfield guy growing up.

  Willie Geist

  Growing Up, Guy, Bigs

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• If I could tour with anyone, I'd go with either Maroon 5, or Dave Matthews. No lets go with Sting, he will be my all time favorite...wait no I want to go on tour with the Police.

  Ryan Cabrera

  Letting Go, Waiting, Police

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• There aren't many political humorists. Dave Barry is excellent, but he doesn't do it much.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Political, Excellent, Humorists

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The Lampoon was definitely quite formative. You know there's a crazy like kind of network of comedy writers from The Lampoon that are, that kind of you know like Seinfeld and The Simpsons and a lot of shows kind of had a lot of kind of Lampoon writers and so that was very formative. I mean, to me I got interested in comedy writing at an early like reading like Dave Barry.

  Nicholas Stoller

  Crazy, Reading, Writing

  Source: collider.com

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• Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.

  Cameron Crowe

  Writing, Rocks, Age

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• Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.

  Patrick Ewing

  Doors, Firsts, Steps

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• Many, many of you have written to me asking the following question: 'Dave, have their been any new advancements in the field of artificial falcon insemination, and could these developments be used to improve the American electoral process?'

  Dave Barry

  Humorous, Profound, Insane

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• I've never seen a movie director who was happier to be directing a movie than Dave [Mamet]. His sets, everyone who's ever been involved with one of them will tell you of the funnest, funniest sets you can be on.

  Clark Gregg

  Directors, Movie Director, Involved

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard.

  Eric Davis

  Attitude, Games, Play

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was trying to land an 18-year-old strapping first baseman from Blanco, Texas, population 200. His name was Willie Upshaw. It turned out there were only three scouts who knew about Willie - Dave Yocum and I working for the Yankees, and Al LaMacchia from the Atlanta Braves.

  Pat Gillick

  Yankees, Texas, Atlanta

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• I think I failed miserably on NewsRadio. I was very nervous because of the caliber of the cast - especially Dave Foley - so I think I did a terrible job.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Jobs, Thinking, Nervous

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, music.avclub.com. June 7, 2007.

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• Dave Stark has taken the best of recent marketplace management concepts and married them to timeless biblical principles of leadership, translating business jargon into ministry language. The combination is an encouraging and practical guide to Christ-centered ministry leadership. This book will be helpful to anyone involved in leading a church or serious about modeling servant leadership.

  Jonathan Reckford

  Book, Taken, Biblical

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• There are some people who want me and my husband to stay where it is safe and draw a paycheck every week instead of what we are doing (which is creating and sharing our art with others). The truth is that there are people in this world - Dave and I being two - who would die a slow painful death if stuck in an office and made to do the kind of work that we are not made to do.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Art, Husband, Creating

  Source: sara-mincy.blogspot.com

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• No self-respecting feminist could argue with the claim that the novel is more likely to accept existing power structures than not. But there's a vast difference, surely, between Dickens saying Indians should be exterminated and a Dave Eggers writing eloquently about the NSA, but not being as outspoken on American military power abroad.

  Kamila Shamsie

  Military, Writing, Self

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Dave Herman as Michael Bolton is one of my favorite performances ever.

  Adam McKay

  My Favorite, Performances

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• My favorite of my books is DAVE AT NIGHT, because it's loosely based on my father's childhood in an orphanage.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Father, Book, Night

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• I had brought up from Chile a contract agent whose cover was that of a newspaper publisher in Santiago, a young, very talented man, named Dave Phillips, who later on carved quite a career for himself in the agency.

  E. Howard Hunt

  Men, Agency, Careers

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• I coached against Dave the last couple of years, and I was very proud to be the first time a father ever coached against his son. He beat me for 30 minutes the first time and 59 and a half minutes the second time.

  Don Shula

  Sports, Couple, Father

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• You don't have to be Dave Halberstam to see that the American role in both conflicts [the Iraq war and the Vietnam conflict] is characterized by arrogance, ignorance and self-delusion at the highest levels of government.

  Jonathan Yardley

  War, Ignorance, Government

  "David Halberstam". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. April 24, 2007.

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• I love everything from country to alternative to Blink-182 and 90s music to Dave Matthews.

  Spencer Boldman

  Country, Blink 182, Alternatives

  "Crush of the Week: Zapped Cutie Spencer Boldman". Interview with Alex Abel, www.seventeen.com. June 27, 2014.

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• Why is Dave Chappelle going to Africa? Why does Mariah Carey make a hundred-million dollar deal and take her clothes off on TRL? A weak person can not get here and talk to you. Ain't no weak people talking to you. So what is happening in Hollywood? Nobody knows! The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. I don't understand this person, so they're crazy. That's bullshit. These people are not crazy, they're strong people. Maybe the environment is a little sick.

  Dave Chappelle

  Strong, Crazy, Clothes

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• Dave Jones got to the final last year and lost in the semi-final this year, so progress has definitely been made

  Paul Lambert

  Years, Progress, Finals

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• I love funny people. I met and became friends with some of the funniest people ever. Gilda Radner, bless her soul; Martin Short; Dave Thomas; Eugene Levy.

  Paul Shaffer

  People, Soul, Bless

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• Dave and I as a couple seem to be the acceptable face of gayness, and that's great. I've got to use that power to try and do what I can - or we have - to try to make the situations in Russia and Poland better.

  Elton John

  Couple, Russia, Trying

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2006.

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• The ex-left-hander Dave Roberts will be going for Houston.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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