Donald Davie Quotes & Sayings

Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity. — Kilroy J. Oldster

The children of the white families in town were not permitted to associate with me, because my father was committing the then unpardonable crime, in Southern eyes, of educating negroes. — Lee De Forest

With enough love we could conquer the world. But love does not conquer; it suffers. That is how it remains love. — Peter Lundell

I nodded, pretending to be a hundred times more courageous than I felt.
But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it. — Lisa Tawn Bergren

For now she is small. For now she still thinks in terms of that little town, her concepts stuck, rigid. Eight days, she thinks. Eight days and she will leave. Not a day sooner. Not a day later. She wouldn't want to risk ruining the possibility of all that her future may hold. All of it, for her, hanging on two rings on top of each other that when connected, she could trace forever. — J. Jason Graff

Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are. — Sugar Ray Leonard

The key to longevity is to keep doing what you do better than anyone else. We work real hard at that. It's about getting your message out to the consumer. It's about getting their trust, but also getting them excited, again and again. My clothes.. the clothes we make for the runway.. aren't concepts. They go into stores. Our stores. Thankfully, we have lots of them. — Ralph Lauren

In Italian there is an expression: We don't sleep on the fame. — Donatella Versace

You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from. — Tracey Ullman

Every man is the artisan of his own fortune. — Appius Claudius Caecus