David House famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Enjoy every minute. There's plenty of time to be dead.

  • The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

  • Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not myTime, the flood that does not flow. Between the double and the single bell Of a ship's hour, between a round of bells From the dark warship riding there below, I have lived many lives, and this one life Of Joe, long dead, who lives between five bells.

  • However, I must stress that my own interest is immediate and in the picture. What I am conscious of and what I feel is the picture I am making, the relation of that picture to others I have made and, more generally, its relation to others I have experienced.

  • If you get to a point where something happens today to stress you out, take a breath & center your thoughts on peace. Ignored thoughts die.

  • When we asked Pooh what the opposite of an Introduction was, he said "The what of a what?" which didn't help us as much as we had hoped, but luckily Owl kept his head and told us that the Opposite of an Introduction, my dear Pooh, was a Contradiction; and, as he is very good at long words, I am sure that that's what it is.

  • As long as you want anything very much, especially more than you want God, it is an idol.

  • If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

  • A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.

  • So long as the human spirit thrives on this planet, music in some living form will accompany and sustain it and give it expressive meaning.

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