Toryn Davis Quotes & Sayings

Some people, they just don't get a joke. — Glenn Frey

Blindly believing something often comes from societal conformity which is a sign of a lack of deep knowledge and imaginative consciousness. — Debasish Mridha

The whole culture is under terrible pressure and fraught with worry. It's hard to get out of that box. That's the dominant situation all over the world. — James Hillman

If the artist starts evaluating himself, it's an enormous block, isn't it? — Philip Guston

The more reverence we have for the Word of God, the more joy we shall find in it. — Matthew Henry

Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion. — Barney Frank

I am the outcast come home to roost and the eggs of tomorrow are incubating in my fame. You hate me, you love me, you made me, and now I am in you. I am like that disease brewing in your loins and I think you like it ... — Nikki Sixx

Consider a white ninth-grade student taking American history in a predominantly middle-class town in Vermont. Her father tapes Sheetrock, earning an income that in slow construction seasons leaves the family quite poor. Her mother helps out by driving a school bus part-time, in addition to taking care of her two younger siblings. The girl lives with her family in a small house, a winterized former summer cabin, while most of her classmates live in large suburban homes. How is this girl to understand her poverty? Since history textbooks present the American past as four hundred years of progress and portray our society as a land of opportunity in which folks get what they deserve and deserve what they get, the failures of working-class Americans to transcend their class origin inevitably get laid at their own doorsteps. — James W. Loewen

I feel like directing is an innate talent. — Jordana Brewster

True gentleness is founded on a sense of what we owe to him who made us and to the common nature which we all share. It arises from reflection on our own failings and wants, and from just views of the condition and duty of man. It is native feeling heightened and improved by principle. — Hugh Blair

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides. — Euripides

Classic Rock radio gave us our longevity. — George Thorogood

The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less the defense and the less the defense the less the gain. — Thomas Wyatt

I hate war. Absolutely, I hate war. — Norman Schwarzkopf

Idealism that makes no distinction between areas where our national interest lies and those from which it is remote does no good for America. The weariness of the post-Versailles, post-Korea, post-Vietnam eras is never far from the national mood. — Dick Morris