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Davies Quotes By Paul Davies

Supposing we knew that up there is some alien civilization and it's sending radio signals our way we should not tell the public where that is. We could say that we've picked up a signal, but we should not tell them where for the simple reason that anybody could commandeer a radio telescope, set themselves up as some self appointed spokesperson of mankind and start beaming all sorts of crazy messages back to the aliens. — Paul Davies

Davies Quotes By Robertson Davies

Wisdom may be rented ... on the experience of other people, but we buy it at an inordinate price before we make it our own forever. — Robertson Davies

Davies Quotes By Ray Davies

I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere. — Ray Davies

Davies Quotes By John Rhys-Davies

I found it marvelous that the great supporters of America in Europe are, of course, those countries that American consistency and firmness in the Cold War ended up liberating. — John Rhys-Davies

Davies Quotes By Laura Davies

It is worth taking the leap for something you have always wanted to do because until you try you'll never know. Through the experiences I have had and the risks I have taken, I have gained courage and confidence. I didn't start with the courage and confidence. I started with the risk. — Laura Davies

Davies Quotes By Robertson Davies

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it. — Robertson Davies

Davies Quotes By Nick Davies

It's the tabloids, with their intense commercial need to get scoops to bring in readers, that run a regime of fear, where reporters are bullied, shouted at. That's where things go wrong. — Nick Davies

Davies Quotes By Ray Davies

A restless spirit who can't reach his goal, can't find a home until I've found my soul. — Ray Davies

Davies Quotes By David Clement-Davies

On his brow a leaf of oaken, Cangeling child shall be his fate. Understanding words strange spoken, Chased by anger, fear, and hate. — David Clement-Davies

Davies Quotes By Robertson Davies

To instruct calls for energy, and to remain almost silent, but watchful and helpful, while students instruct themselves, calls for even greater energy. To see someone fall (which will teach him not to fall again) when a word from you would keep him on his feet but ignorant of an important danger, is one of the tasks of the teacher that calls for special energy, because holding in is more demanding than crying out. — Robertson Davies

Davies Quotes By Frank Portman

Basically, Sam Phillips recorded Bill Haley, Johnny Cash, and all those other Memphis guys; Chuck Berry played the top two strings; Elvis appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show above the waist; the Beatles made all the girls squirm by singing about wanting to hold their "hands"; Ray Davies got lost in a sunset; Pete Townshend smashed his guitar; Brian Wilson heard magic in his head and made it come out of a studio; the Rolling Stones urinated on a garage door; and then (skipping a bit) you've got Joey Levine and Chapman-Chinn and Mott the Hoople and Iggy and the Runaways and KISS and the Pink Fairies and Rick Nielsen and Jonathan Richman and Johnny Ramone and Lemmy and the Young brothers and Cook and Jones and Pete Shelley and Feargal Sharkey and Rob Halford ... and Foghat. You get what I'm saying. It didn't happen in a vacuum, but it did happen, and now here we are in the aftermath. — Frank Portman

Davies Quotes By A. Powell Davies

You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer. — A. Powell Davies

Davies Quotes By Dave Davies

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more. — Dave Davies

Davies Quotes By Robertson Davies

Curiosity is part of the cement that holds society together. — Robertson Davies

Davies Quotes By Luke Davies

I can no longer cry. I groan a few times. Through the slits that are my eyes, I stare at my shoes, at the gray swirls of the concrete floor, at the bright orange lid of my syringe. And I realize - it's a kind of horror - that this is my life.
And I can't stop. I just can't stop. I can't stop anymore. — Luke Davies

Davies Quotes By Norman Davies

NOMISMA, MEANING 'COIN', was used by both Greeks and Romans. Our own word 'money' derives, via the French monnaie, from the Latin moneta, meaning the mint, where coins are struck. (In early Rome the mint was situated on the Capitoline Hill in the temple of Juno Moneta.) — Norman Davies

Davies Quotes By Sir John Davies

This is the slowest, yet the daintiest sense;
For ev'n the ears of such as have no skill,
Perceive a discord, and conceive offence;
And knowing not what's good, yet find the ill. — Sir John Davies

Davies Quotes By Robertson Davies

So
I confess I have been a rake at reading. I have read those things which I ought not to have read, and I have not read those things which I ought to have read, and there is no health in me
if by health you mean an inclusive and coherent knowledge of any body of great literature. I can only protest, like all rakes in their shameful senescence, that I have had a good time. — Robertson Davies

Davies Quotes By Richard Davies

Politicians should be changed regularly, like diapers, and for the same reason. — Richard Davies

Davies Quotes By Paul Davies

An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have eliminated any competition through natural selection. But if another form of life were confined to its own niche, there would be little direct competition with regular life. — Paul Davies

Davies Quotes By Mary Carolyn Davies

A good dog never dies. He always stays. He walks besides you on crisp autumn days when frost is on the fields and winter's drawing near. His head is within our hand in his old way. — Mary Carolyn Davies

Davies Quotes By Andrew Davies

I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written," and I thought, "Maybe I could be a writer." — Andrew Davies

Davies Quotes By Robertson Davies

The wit of a graduate student is like champagne. Canadian champagne. — Robertson Davies

Davies Quotes By Robertson Davies

This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries. — Robertson Davies

Davies Quotes By Barry Davies

Jim Leighton is looking a sharp as a tank — Barry Davies

Davies Quotes By Paul Davies

The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale. — Paul Davies

Davies Quotes By Ray Davies

Life is so groovy when your record is hot. — Ray Davies

Davies Quotes By Sir John Davies

I know myself a Man
Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing. — Sir John Davies

Davies Quotes By David Toop

At that time, 73 and 74, I became aware that there were a number of us making instruments. Max Eastley was a good friend and he was making instruments, Paul Burwell and I were making instruments, Evan Parker was making instruments, and we knew Hugh Davies, who was a real pioneer of these amplified instruments. — David Toop

Davies Quotes By Nick Davies

You don't get shouted at at the 'Guardian.' Nobody bullies you at the paper; nobody tells you what to write. Now, I love working in that atmosphere; I am free to research and write what I want. — Nick Davies

Davies Quotes By David Clement-Davies

They say that wisdom is a woman, and loves a warrior. — David Clement-Davies

Davies Quotes By John Rhys-Davies

I am a believer in the evolutionary process, and yet I have sympathy for the friends of mine who are creationists. I don't find the positions incompatible. — John Rhys-Davies

Davies Quotes By Ray Davies

It's never too late to get a new design, and if you wanna compete you gotta visualize. — Ray Davies

Davies Quotes By John Rhys-Davies

I have a lot of respect for aspects of Islam, but I would not choose to live in a theocratically organised Muslim society. — John Rhys-Davies

Davies Quotes By Andrew Davies

I'd love to adapt more contemporary novels. But there isn't really enough story and character to make a really satisfying serial, so they tend to be single dramas. — Andrew Davies

Davies Quotes By Andrew Davies

I used to have this Mercedes, a dark blue 450SLC, which was the most beautiful car. I'd like to have another unusual, beautiful car. — Andrew Davies

Davies Quotes By Robertson Davies

A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged. — Robertson Davies

Davies Quotes By Robertson Davies

It was as though she was an exile from a world that saw things her way — Robertson Davies

Davies Quotes By Robertson Davies

In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth. — Robertson Davies

Davies Quotes By Luke Davies

If I could find someone to blame, perhaps I could get angry. Anything would be better than this sadness, this sense of regret for events that were never mine. — Luke Davies

Davies Quotes By Andrew Davies

Plan for each episode to be a satisfying experience, but still leave the audience thinking, 'Oh, my God! Now what?' — Andrew Davies

Davies Quotes By Gavyn Davies

Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her. — Gavyn Davies

Davies Quotes By Russell T. Davies

Mickey: I told you to stay behind.
Martha: You looked like you needed help. Besides, you're the one who persuaded me to go freelance.
Mickey: Yeah, but - we're being fired at by a Sontoran. A dumpling with a gun. And this is no place for a married woman.
Martha: Well then. You shouldn't have married me.
Above them, The Doctor takes out the Sontoran.
Mickey: If we go in here, and down to the factory floor, and down past that corridor. Then he won't know that we're here. Martha sees the Doctor.
Martha: Mickey. Mickey.
-Doctor Who — Russell T. Davies

Davies Quotes By Linda Davies

Ark Storm - what if you could control the weather? — Linda Davies

Davies Quotes By David Clement-Davies

Wolves hate farewells,... — David Clement-Davies

Davies Quotes By Norman Davies

the Entente Powers, far from aiding Poland, regarded her activities with irritation. Poland won her independence for twenty years by her own efforts under the leadership of Pilsudski. — Norman Davies

Davies Quotes By Ray Davies

Accept your life and what it brings, I know tomorrow you find better things. — Ray Davies

Davies Quotes By Marion Davies

An imitator is always a poor example. — Marion Davies

Davies Quotes By Valentine Davies

Christmas isn't just a day. It's a frame of mind. — Valentine Davies

Davies Quotes By Robertson Davies

Celtic civilization was tribal, but by no means savage or uncultivated. People who regarded the theft of a harp from a bard as a crime second only to an attack on the tribal chieftain cannot be regarded as wanting in cultivated feeling. — Robertson Davies

Davies Quotes By Robertson Davies

Speakers' nerves affect them in various ways. Some tremble, some become frenzied. I lose all confidence, and suffer from a leaden oppression that makes me wonder why I ever agreed to speak at all; the Tomb and the Conqueror Worm seem preferable to delivering the stupid and piffling speech I have so carefully prepared. — Robertson Davies

Davies Quotes By Andrew Davies

People like bonnets. I don't think you can under-estimate that. — Andrew Davies

Davies Quotes By David Clement-Davies

Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again — David Clement-Davies

Davies Quotes By Robertson Davies

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional, and common sense continual. — Robertson Davies

Davies Quotes By Ray Davies

Come and love me, be my apeman girl, and we will be so happy in my apeman world. — Ray Davies

Davies Quotes By Norman Davies

Most Poles are by temperament 'agin'. — Norman Davies

Davies Quotes By W.H. Davies

After hearing an answer, I drew in the chloroform in long breaths, thinking to assist the doctors in their work. In spite of this, I have a faint recollection of struggling with all my might against its effects, previous to losing consciousness; but I was greatly surprised on being afterwards told that I had, when in that condition, used more foul language in ten minutes delirium than had probably been used in twenty four hours by the whole population of Canada. — W.H. Davies

Davies Quotes By David Clement-Davies

That we can never know," answered the wolf angrily. "That's for the future. But what we can know is the importance of what we owe to the present. Here and now, and nowhere else. For nothing else exists, except in our minds. What we owe to ourselves, and to those we're bound to. And we can at least hope to make a better future, for everything. — David Clement-Davies

Davies Quotes By John Rhys-Davies

Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy. — John Rhys-Davies

Davies Quotes By Paul Davies

The Eerie Silence: are we alone in the universe? — Paul Davies

Davies Quotes By Russell T. Davies

It's tough and it should be tough - it should never be easy to be given millions of pounds to make a drama. The coalition government is doing terrible things to the BBC, but drama will survive even if we end up putting on a play in a backroom of a pub. — Russell T. Davies

Davies Quotes By Robertson Davies

It is lost, lovely child, somewhere in the ragbag that I laughingly refer to as my memory. — Robertson Davies

Davies Quotes By Siobhan Davies

We're talking about people who've already got 3-4, if not 5-6 years' experience or more, and it's about trying to help professionals develop, using us as a resource for that development. — Siobhan Davies

Davies Quotes By Paul Davies

Cancer touches every family in one way or another. As other diseases are brought under control, cancer is set to become the number one killer, and is already in epidemic proportions worldwide. — Paul Davies

Davies Quotes By W.H. Davies

Now shall I walk or shall I ride? 'Ride,' Pleasure said; 'Walk,' Joy replied. — W.H. Davies

Davies Quotes By Robertson Davies

The best among our writers are doing their accustomed work of mirroring what is deep in the spirit of our time; if chaos appears in those mirrors, we must have faith that in the future, as always in the past, that chaos will slowly reveal itself as a new aspect of order. — Robertson Davies

Davies Quotes By Ray Davies

Jogging in the park is my excuse to look at all the girls. — Ray Davies

Davies Quotes By Nick Davies

The Murdoch-owned 'Sunday Times' has an appalling history of involvement in illegal activity. And it's because they're Sunday papers; they're trying to get scoops that the dailies haven't got. — Nick Davies

Davies Quotes By David Clement-Davies

Know that without night there is no day; without lies, no truth;without despair,no hope. Beware above all of hate, but call to its opposite too. For all things have an opposite and, if you choose it, with will and care, you may turn one thing into its reflection. — David Clement-Davies

Davies Quotes By Robertson Davies

Life, as he conceived of it, was a long decline from a glorious past, and if a reader approaches a newspaper in that spirit, he can find much to confirm him in his belief, particularly if he has never examined any short period of the past in day-to-day detail. — Robertson Davies

Davies Quotes By Dave Davies

Science has proved that everything is energy, and now they have dark energy, dark matter. They don't call it all-embracing consciousness; they call it dark because they can't measure it. You know, paint it black. — Dave Davies

Davies Quotes By Mervyn Davies

The most important aspect of leading is knowing oneself. Know yourself, know the people around you, and then get on with it. — Mervyn Davies

Davies Quotes By Ray Davies

You got all your friends, I got a TV set. — Ray Davies

Davies Quotes By Ray Davies

Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies, I am an apeman. — Ray Davies

Davies Quotes By Ray Davies

Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right. — Ray Davies

Davies Quotes By Barry Davies

The crowd think that Todd handled the ball ... they must have seen something that nobody else did. — Barry Davies

Davies Quotes By Ray Davies

He thinks he is a flower to be looked at And when he pulls his frilly nylon pants right up tight He feels a dedicated follower of fashion. When a waiter at Buckingham Palace spilled soup on her dress: Never darken my Dior again! — Ray Davies

Davies Quotes By Ray Davies

When I discovered Mose Allison I felt I had discovered the missing link between jazz and blues — Ray Davies

Davies Quotes By Norman Davies

The Terror-Famine of 1932-33 was a dual-purpose by product of collectivization, designed to suppress Ukrainian nationalism and the most important concentration of prosperous peasants at one throw. — Norman Davies

Davies Quotes By Bill Bryson

As the physicist Paul Davies puts it, 'If everything needs everything else, how did the communities of molecules ever arise in the first place?' It is rather as if all the ingredients in your kitchen somehow got together and baked themselves into a cake - but a cake that could moreover divide when necessary to produce more cakes. It is little wonder that we call it the miracle of life. It is also little wonder that we have barely begun to understand it. — Bill Bryson

Davies Quotes By Robertson Davies

When irony first makes itself known in a young man's life, it can be like his first experience of getting drunk; he has met with a powerful thing which he does not know how to handle. — Robertson Davies

Davies Quotes By Ray Davies

I'd really like to change the world and save it from the mess it's in. I'm so weak, I'm so thin, I want to fly, but I can't even swim. — Ray Davies

Davies Quotes By Andrew Davies

I know that a ridiculous number of classic serials have been commissioned, and that reviews show a reaction against them. The critics seem fed up. — Andrew Davies

Davies Quotes By Robertson Davies

I came at last to a recognition of myself as, in part, a Tom Sawyer who wanted everything done according to the rules of romantic fiction, and complicated simple solutions with his absurd adolescent, book-born nonsense. — Robertson Davies

Davies Quotes By Robertson Davies

Which was complimentary but unhelpful, because the librarians were tough. — Robertson Davies

Davies Quotes By Robertson Davies

Ut when one human creature dies a whole world of hope and memory and feeling dies with him. To be robbed of the dignity of a natural death is a terrible deprivation. — Robertson Davies

Davies Quotes By Roger J. Davies

In Japan, however, if you against someone and create a bad atmosphere, your relations may break-off completely. People tend to react emotionally, and most are afraid of being excluded from the group. — Roger J. Davies

Davies Quotes By Paul Davies

Mathematics is universal. It's discovered by human beings, but the rules of mathematics are the same throughout the universe and the laws of the universe. — Paul Davies

Davies Quotes By Robertson Davies

... 'But Gold was not all. The other kings bring Frank Innocence and Mirth.' | Darcourt was startled, then delighted. 'That is very fine, Yerko; is it your own?' | 'No, it is in the story. I saw it in New York. The kings say, We bring you Gold, Frank Innocence, and Mirth.' | 'Sancta simplicitas,' said Darcourt, raising his eyes to mine. 'If only there were more Mirth in the message He has left to us. We miss it sadly, in the world we have made. And Frank Innocence. Oh, Yerko, you dear man.' ... — Robertson Davies

Davies Quotes By Paul Davies

Traditionally, scientists have treated the laws of physics as simply 'given,' elegant mathematical relationships that were somehow imprinted on the universe at its birth, and fixed thereafter. Inquiry into the origin and nature of the laws was not regarded as a proper part of science. — Paul Davies

Davies Quotes By Dave Davies

Working with the Kinks, there always seemed to be some kind of automatic process at work. Ray and I had this telepathy happening for a long time, where one of us always knew what the other could do with something. — Dave Davies

Davies Quotes By Eden Summers

I've watched a never-ending line of relationships crumple around me, with each sordid detail publicized to the world. I couldn't stand to hurt you that way. — Eden Summers

Davies Quotes By Paul Davies

Science may explain the world, but we still have to explain science. The laws which enable the universe to come into being spontaneously seem themselves to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design. If physics is the product of design, the universe must have a purpose, and the evidence of modern physics suggests strongly to me that the purpose includes us — Paul Davies

Davies Quotes By John Rhys-Davies

There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren't bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially. — John Rhys-Davies

Davies Quotes By Andrew Davies

My wife likes history and documentaries, but I'm not so keen on them. I generally go and do some work if there's one of those on. — Andrew Davies

Davies Quotes By Lynn Davies

There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how to live your life in the best possible way. — Lynn Davies

Davies Quotes By Robertson Davies

Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else. — Robertson Davies

Davies Quotes By Ray Davies

You hate me and I hate you, so at least we understand each other. — Ray Davies

Davies Quotes By Richard Davies

I really stay busy [in retirement]. I often have to cancel my golf games on the weekends to go play in tennis tournaments. — Richard Davies

Davies Quotes By Ray Davies

Calling all citizens all over the world, this is Captain America calling. — Ray Davies