Davoudi Quotes & Sayings

The earth laughs in flowers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Many of my ardent admirers would be roundly shocked and disturbed if they realized that everything I believe is thoroughly moral, thoroughly Catholic, and that it is these beliefs that give my work its chief characteristics. — Flannery O'Connor

The 2-week delay of her letters had caused me to keep a distrustful eye on Hallie, like a star so many light years away it could have exploded long ago while we still watched its false shine. — Barbara Kingsolver

Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted. — Elisha Cuthbert

My job is not to worry about what everyone else thinks about me but to discover what I think. If I actually want to know what someone else thinks, my job is then to ask that person. More often than not, however, it isn't important to know. It's okay if people are mad at me, and it's okay if people think I'm a complete idiot - as long as I'm doing my best. Just because certain people might have judgments about me, it does not mean they have authority over me. To truly form my own life, I had to ask questions like 'What are my needs? And 'What are my thoughts?' I had to acknowledge both my strengths and my weaknesses. I had to form my own opinions based on my reality instead of someone else's. — Jenni Schaefer

Sometimes at night I light a lamp so as not to see. — Antonio Porchia

You'll have a better understanding of what was actually done if you start by knowing what had to be done - what always and everywhere has to be done by anyone who has a clear idea about what's what. — Aldous Huxley

All it takes is a single moment. — Alison McGhee

No sharing a tent because you say you have to protect me or stuff like that, okay? — Annie Seaton

My comedy has no color, it's for everybody, black, white, Latino, Asian. It's not a pro-black show, not a def jam show; it's just straight, wholesome type of humor. — Bruce Bruce

How drugs patchworked simple, banal thoughts into phrases that seemed filled with importance. My glitchy adolescent brain was desperate for causalities, for conspiracies that drenched every word, every gesture, with meaning. I wanted Russell to be a genius. — Emma Cline

My comedy is romanticized laziness. — Jim Gaffigan

I don't copy recipes without trying them out. I don't reprint without trying them again. — Elizabeth David