David Wain Quotes

Unlike productions in the other arts, all television shows are born to destroy two other shows.

The problem with TV now is that there's so much competition, that you're always on the chopping block.

Every derby match is different, just like every season is different.

No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

Nothing is inevitable if we are willing to contemplate what is happening.

I have no idea what's going to happen with America in the future.

Adaptability cushions the impact of change or disappointment.

In the future, it will become increasingly obvious that your competitors are just as clueless as you are.

Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

Everything you do has some effect, some impact.

Nothing that ever happens is so unimportant that it doesn't change things.

You throw a stone into a deep pond. Splash. The sound is big, and it reverberates throughout the surrounding area. What comes out of the pond after that? All we can do is stare at the pond, holding our breath.

It takes so little to change everything. If you really thought about it, it would scare you to death.

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.

It seemed like this day could go in so many directions, like a spiderweb shooting out toward endless possibilities.

With every choice you risk the life you would have had; with every decision, you lose it.

How you all will change the work after I am gone. If I came back a hundred years from now, I just wonder if I would even recognize it.

See technology used to be our friends. But now, nobody is quite so sure.

Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.

You'll never, eever, be the same, again!

You're going to pass something down no matter what you do or if you do nothing. Even if you let yourself go fallow, the weeds will grow and the brambles. Something will grow.

Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

William James once said: "Progress is a terrible thing." It is more than that: it is also a highly ambiguous notion. For who knowsbut that a little further on the way a bridge may not have collapsed or a crevice split the earth?

Nashville will never be the same.