Historic Davenport Quotes & Sayings

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded. — Mark Twain

If a man's heart is rankling with discord and ill feeling toward you, you can't win him to your way of thinking with all the logic in Christendom. Scolding parents and domineering bosses and husbands and nagging wives ought to realize that people don't want to change their minds. They can't be forced or driven to agree with you or me. But they may possibly be led to, if we are gentle and friendly, ever so gentle and ever so friendly. — Dale Carnegie

He'd have more time for philosophical thoughts if he wasn't being pursued by a herd of satyrs. They weren't turned on by his rugged good looks either; they had murder on their minds. — Cailee Francis

Night was fading over the fields as if the rain had washed the darkness out of the hem of its garment. — Cornelia Funke

I guess that showed why the Guard mainly meddles with humanoid cultures. We're opportunists, not real knowledge-seekers, and we just don't have the knowledge base to go beyond humanoid contacts. — L.E. Modesitt Jr.

SST was formed to put out the first Black Flag record. Basically, there wasn't anyone else to do it. I felt that what I was doing with Black Flag was very worthwhile, and I wanted to get it out there. — Greg Ginn

All raw, uncooked, protesting."
(on Aldous Huxley) — Virginia Woolf

Social media is an information channel; it's like radio or TV ... In Cisco, we made a lot of money on public protocol. I think the social media model replicates that protocol. — Sandra Lerner