David Gilmour > Quotes

“...the second time you see something is really the first time. You need to know how it ends before you can appreciate how beautifully it's put together from the beginning.”
― David Gilmour, The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

“It is an example of what films can do, how they can slip past your defenses and really break your heart.”
― David Gilmour

“I mean that it's all right to go to bed with an asshole but don't ever have a baby with one.”
― David Gilmour, The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

“It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.”
― David Gilmour, The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

“That’s the great illusion of travel, of course, the notion that there’s somewhere to get to. A place where you can finally say, Ah, I’ve arrived. (Of course there is no such place. There’s only a succession of waitings until you go home.)”
― David Gilmour, Sparrow Nights

“She was a stirrer of the pot, a lover of intrigue and distress, a creature who seemed to draw oxygen from the spectacle of people at each other's throat, everybody in a state of upset and talking about her.”
― David Gilmour, The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

“So you're here by yourself?"
“Yes."
“Seems like an odd place to come by yourself."
“I needed to get away."
“Woman trouble? That's another of my father's expressions."
“No, actually. I poisoned my neighbor's dogs."
After a moment she said, “How drunk are you?"
“Quite."
“Is that true?"
“What?"
“That you poisoned your neighbor’s dogs."
“I’m afraid it is."
“I have dogs."
“Well, keep them away from me.”
― David Gilmour, Sparrow Nights

“That's the illusion of stillness. There is no secret. Only the implication of one by its possesor".”
― David Gilmour

“Really, how much of one’s life is made up of these private incidents; how submerged one is. You know, for example, that you will recover from a broken heart, but somehow that piece of information, that factoid, never arrives at the soul or the brain or the nervous system, yes, the nervous system, where it might do some good. But if you know you’re going to be all right, why then do you suffer so? To get there. To get where you know you are going to get to anyway. How pathetic, then, to feel about having arrived. I survived, you say. Yes, but what else would you do? No one dies from love. Come, come.”
― David Gilmour, Sparrow Nights

“The trick to having a happy life is being good at something.”
― David Gilmour, The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

“But you, your life, it's just starting, it's all ahead of you. It's yours to throw away.”
― David Gilmour, The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

“When a woman tells you she's had a dream about you, you know what's going on, don't you? It means she likes you. It's her way of telling you that you're on her mind. Really on her mind.”
― David Gilmour, The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

“Syd always gets in there.”
― David Gilmour

“Love affairs that start in blood tend to end up in blood.”
― David Gilmour, The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

“I had a girlfriend once. All we ever talked about was our relationship. That's what we did instead of having one.”
― David Gilmour, The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

“I’m not interested in teaching books by women... Usually at the beginning of the semester a hand shoots up and someone asks why there aren’t any women writers in the course. I say I don’t love women writers enough to teach them, if you want women writers go down the hall. What I teach is guys. Serious heterosexual guys. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chekhov, Tolstoy. Real guy-guys. Henry Miller. Philip Roth.”
― David Gilmour

“Women can be kind of a blood sport.”
― David Gilmour, The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

“families from remote stations”
― David Gilmour, The British in India: A Social History of the Raj

“... sự bí ẩn của người nào đó xuất hiện và biến mất trong cuộc đời bạn suy cho cùng lại chẳng phải điều gì quá bí hiểm.”
― David Gilmour, The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

“Choisir un film pour quelqu'un est une chose risquée. En un sens, c'est aussi révélateur que de lui écrire une lettre. Ça expose notre façon de penser, ça parle de ce qui nous émeut, ça peut même parfois exhiber la façon dont nous pensons être perçu par le monde.”
― David Gilmour, The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

“If you really want to make a difference in the world, you have to understand how it works and leave behind the desire to smack someone.”
― David Gilmour, The Film Club: A True Story of a Father and Son

“By now I was talking to my mother, as the wounded and the dying do, I was begging for comfort, just this last once, this last time. Put your cool hand on my brow as you did when I was little and had a fever and you came in the middle of the night and tucked me in. Sometimes she would take off all of my blankets and then one by one waft them back over me; first the sheet, she'd lift it up again, and it would flutter down, so cool, so clean. How happy children can be in their beds.”
― David Gilmour, Sparrow Nights

“Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spell”
― David Gilmour