Top 100 Davidson Quotes

#1. Never let your fiend off his leash unless there's lots of room to run (and no people around).

MaryJanice Davidson

#2. They were back. The demons in all their glory. And they had a plan. I made plans sometimes, too, but they rarely involved world domination. Hot dogs on a grill, maybe. Tequila.

Darynda Jones

#3. Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!

Doug Davidson

#4. I wouldn't consider myself a Buddhist or a card-carrying zealot at all. My first commitment is as a scientist to uncover the truth about all this.

Richard Davidson

#5. WHEN I finally slowed and looked around, I saw with amazement I'd trotted sixteen blocks in about three minutes. Summer Olympics, here I come. Assuming they held the races at night.

MaryJanice Davidson

#6. My memories came back like a punch in the face. Only good.

Lee Davidson

#7. How would you like your eggs?"
I tried. I really did. But I glanced at his crotch and it came out anyway. "Fertilized?

Darynda Jones

#8. We need to define gentrification as separate from the process of displacement.

Justin Davidson

#9. I don't believe in predestined fate. The future is what we choose to create.

Jim Davidson

#10. Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.

Adam Davidson

#11. Don't be wasting your sympathy on me, kid. I did pretty damn well, I'll tell you what. You snag a woman like that, you don't ask what you did to deserve it. You just hope she never wises up and changes her mind.

Andrew Davidson

#12. He turned to her and pressed a kiss to the corner of her mouth. When he spoke his deep voice vibrated all through her. 'I. Remember. Everything.

MaryJanice Davidson

#13. You can trick yourself into doing things by doing it one step at a time and never letting yourself see the overall picture.

Robyn Davidson

#14. In meditation you experience time slowing down because you can notice more things per discreet moment and you're more open ... The word 'meditation' in Sanskrit comes from the word 'familiarization' - as in familiarization with one's own mind.

Richard Davidson

#15. The regular I both feared and salivated to see was names Reyes Farrow. Where others exuded aggression, deception, and insecurity, he literally dripped confidence, sex, and power. Mostly sex.

Darynda Jones

#16. Also,I loathe it when you refer to me as dude Eric Sinclair to Betsy

MaryJanice Davidson

#17. The economics profession advances by one confusing financial disaster at a time.

Adam Davidson

#18. I was freaking her out, but someone had to do it, damn it

Darynda Jones

#19. This is a great time to shut up and kiss me.
To her delight, Blake obliged.

MaryJanice Davidson

#20. I'm rubber and you're glue," I told Satan, " and everything that bounces of me sticks to you.

MaryJanice Davidson

#21. All the Disney lead male characters always have this kind of John Davidson kind of look to them. They all look like the same guy, and all the females look like the same, and I think the guys are just way too big.

Mike Judge

#22. Being a writer is great, and being a parent is great, and I hate Marching Band.

MaryJanice Davidson

#23. At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.

Lucy Lawless

#24. The time for arguing about the powers the people want is over. It's time now to use the powers that we have.

Ruth Davidson

#25. I don't want to be bored; I don't want to be with someone I don't respect.

Robyn Davidson

#26. Hello? I said, because Charley's House of Pasties seemed wrong.

Darynda Jones

#27. It's not easy to look the way I do: in popular culture, one only sees a face like mine on the Phaontom of the Opera, on Freddie Krueger from Elm Street, or on Leatherface from deep in the heart of Texas. Sure, a burn victim may "get the girl" - but usually only with a pickax.

Andrew Davidson

#28. Almost at once, sleep, like some rhythmical, snoring vacuum cleaner, consumed the awful day.

Lionel Davidson

#29. You'll pay," she said stonily. "You won't be like this by this time tomorrow."
"Bored and pissed off? God, I hope not.

MaryJanice Davidson

#30. What is cheaper than lust or of less value than alchemy or aphrodisiacs?

Avram Davidson

#31. Spatial working memory is impaired by stress.

Richard Davidson

#32. Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were identical with a physical, it would notfollow that he could predict or explain a single mental event (so described, of course).

Donald Davidson

#33. Has anyone ever told you that you lack focus?

MaryJanice Davidson

#34. Suddenly I'm that chick from Fatal Attraction. Next thing you know, I'll be boiling rabbits.

Darynda Jones

#35. And who came up with the animals for these euphemisms, anyway? Why bat shit? Why not cow shit or grasshopper shit? And why don't we give a rat's ass as opposed to a hamster's ass?

Darynda Jones

#36. Always say no to drugs. It will drive the prices down.

Jim Davidson

#37. The mouth of a passionate lover ... or a woman who would bite when she was angry.

MaryJanice Davidson

#38. We can fight over what the taxation levels should be, but the tax system should be very, very simple and not distortionary.

Adam Davidson

#39. Dear Lord, have you brought me all this way just to stop? Why, why, was I allowed to search so long, to come so near?

Sara Davidson

#40. I believe in Scotland's place within the United Kingdom today as much as ever.

Ruth Davidson

#41. When 'Tracks' first came out, I was courted by Sydney Pollack. I had lunch with him, and he opened the conversation with, 'Honey, you ain't gonna like what I'm gonna do to your book.' I really liked him, but I turned him down, because - well, I was stupid. I also turned down a great deal of money.

Robyn Davidson

#42. That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.

Robyn Davidson

#43. It never failed - I'd buy a new journal, write like a madwoman for ten pages, then lose total interest in the process. Three months later, I'd start the whole process all over again. I think I just liked buying new notebooks.

MaryJanice Davidson

#44. I own two beautiful homes, and I'm always half-expecting the cops to pull in, seize me with firm compassion, and escort me out.

MaryJanice Davidson

#45. Americans are so often thrown by Japan. It looks familiar but, an inch below the surface, it isn't anything like the West at all.

Cathy Davidson

#46. What do you want?"
"You," he said, his voice lowering an octave. "I want you, Dutch, body and soul. I want you in my bed every night. I want you there when I wake up in the morning. I want your clothes strung across my apartment and your scent on my skin.

Darynda Jones

#47. As in any proper fairy tale, there's a majick formula, in this case called the Rule of Nines.

Andrew Davidson

#48. My plans often went awry. Much like my thoughts. Hold the phones. Maybe Saan had ADD, too. It would explain a lot.

Darynda Jones

#49. I'd like to continue doing movies, clubs, concert halls and television. I like something about each one.

Tommy Davidson

#50. Economics is not a discipline that comes to correct answers - economies are too complex.

Adam Davidson

#51. Cookie saw him, too. "Holy mother of all things sexy," she said, her eyes drinking him in.
"Right there with ya.

Darynda Jones

#52. Even the smallest actions of a friend can make a big difference. - Zeta Davidson -

Gary Chapman

#53. I always wanted to host a show, throw whipped-cream pies. Theater is not my cup of tea.

Doug Davidson

#54. I have them a few minutes to absorb everything while I teased Ubie, who only had to recover from his near-death experience. I was so glad Reyes hadn't ripped him to shreds. I liked him much better un-shredded. Unlike, say, my preference for lettuce or heavy metal guitar solos.

Darynda Jones

#55. I'm like crack. People don't want to like me, but once they get a taste, they always come back for more.

Darynda Jones

#56. On quiet nights, when I'm alone, I like to run our wedding video backwards, just to watch myself walk out of the church a free man.

Jim Davidson

#57. I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War.

Robyn Davidson

#58. Welcome to my nightmare," Elvira muttered. "Though you got yourself a biker who fills his Levi's so well he should be in Harley Davidson ads and has an off-the-charts ability to give pleasure so you can't really understand my pain.

Kristen Ashley

#59. It's much easier for me to be silly than it is to be serious on soap opera.

Doug Davidson

#60. The results are in and the cell phone has become the most isruptive aspect of work and everyday life. With more than four fifths of the population sporting these little gadgets, it's now taken as a given that any part of your day is subject to disruption.

Jeff Davidson

#61. One of the things I think you need to be a good emcee is silliness. And I'm basically a silly guy.

Doug Davidson

#62. You'll swoop from incredible highs when you're just glad to be alive, to those lows when you wish you were dead. And just when you start thinking that you've accepted who you are, that changes, too. Because who you are is not permanent

Andrew Davidson

#63. Vianne had been improvising recipes for years, and people, to her mind, were not that much different than food. Both were highly predictable if you paid attention. First,

Kenley Davidson

#64. I love the desert and its incomparable sense of space.

Robyn Davidson

#65. So you're lost, uh? Happens a lot out here. You walk around for days, seeing things, losing your bearings, crying out for God, But He can't hear you. You can scream and scream but nobody'll ever hear you.

Craig Davidson

#66. For me, personally, I really get a kick out of game shows. I like the play-along factor.

Doug Davidson

#67. Reading is the Magic key,
To take you where you want to be.

Alice Joyce Davidson

#68. The discomfort I felt under that moral pressure has stayed with me all my life and made me eternally wary of the blindness of ideological certainty.

Robyn Davidson

#69. And there are new kinds of nomads, not people who are at home everywhere, but who are at home nowhere. I was one of them

Robyn Davidson

#70. I'm not the first to admit that raising a child in Park Slope, Brooklyn, can bear an embarrassing resemblance to the TV show 'Portlandia.' My wife and I try to have some ironic distance from the culture of organic, chemical-free parenting, but we're often participants.

Adam Davidson

#71. A healthy economy is largely a result of a reasonable balance between consumption today and consumption deferred, and it's pretty clear that balance has been ridiculously out of whack for a while.

Adam Davidson

#72. Here I am, just wandering down a deserted street in the middle of the night. I hope I don't run into any trouble. Goodness, that would just ruin my whole evening. I strolled and hummed, trying to project Innocent Victim.

MaryJanice Davidson

#73. Perhaps concentrated wealth will inspire a nation of innovative problem-solvers. But if the view of many economists is right - that it sometimes discourages innovation - then we should worry.

Adam Davidson

#74. I mean, not that I killed her just to get the car, or anything.

MaryJanice Davidson

#75. I don't have a brilliant body at all. I've got very broad shoulders. I've got very big feet. I've also got a very muscular neck.

Jaye Davidson

#76. I kept getting the odd sensation that I was in fact perfectly stationary, and that I was pushing the world around under my feet.

Robyn Davidson

#77. Interesting shade #23 Lush Golden Blonde highlights. Heyyyyyy ... The woman in the awful suit was me! The woman in the cheap shoes was me!

MaryJanice Davidson

#78. Associate with noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone.
Rely upon your own energies, and so not wait for, or depend on other people.

Thomas Davidson

#79. I have this vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycle jacket. When I put it on, it has this supercool feeling to it.

Alicia Keys

#80. Our old site did not have very good support for the disabled, but our new site should soon have much better support. With all of our content in divs now, we can hide all but the relevant chunks of content and navigation with a simple alternate CSS file.

Mike Davidson

#81. We are constantly working towards the highest level of compliance possible.

Mike Davidson

#82. I hope that 9/11 has grouped us as one, and in doing so it has united us. Perhaps as a unit we can help each other get ahead, survive and succeed in this free world. And hey guys, let's not forget out manners!!

Doug Davidson

#83. Never, never have a famous partner. It's too complicated.

Robyn Davidson

#84. We need a different conception of happiness, more enduring and more genuine, not dependent on external circumstances.

Richard Davidson

#85. The French word for wanderlust or wandering is 'errance.' The etymology is the same as 'error.' So to wander is to make mistakes. In other words, to make mistakes, to make errors is sort of the idea of learning through trial and error, allowing the mistakes to be part of the process.

Robyn Davidson

#86. Catering is extremely demanding financially and physically. It's a business.

Diane Mott Davidson

#87. The idea of being a young 50 sounds like you're trying to kid yourself, like a Harley-Davidson or something. I've bought a dressage horse instead.

Martin Clunes

#88. A vampire? How ith that pothible? I died in a car ackthident, for God'th thake! Aw, thon of a bith!

MaryJanice Davidson

#89. Crying's okay while it lasts, but you can only do it for so long. And it's weird to do it when you apparently can't make tears anymore (did this mean I wouldn't pee or sweat, either?). Anyway, eventually you're done, and you have to figure out what to do next.

MaryJanice Davidson

#90. I'm creative in my own life. I'm creative when I step out the door. I'm creative when I pick up a glass. Do you know what I mean? I'm one of those dreadful people who probably should have been born at the end of the 19th century and been in cafe society. That would have suited me fine.

Jaye Davidson

#91. Surely my macking on some guy in an insane asylum wouldn't hurt him. He'd been living with his stalker, for heaven's sake.

Darynda Jones

#92. I would prefer not to be in a car with someone who can't really drive that well!

Tommy Davidson

#93. Just as I was beginning my drift into unconsciousness, there was an explosion. Not a movie explosion but a small real-life explosion, like the ignition of an unhappy gas oven that holds a grudge against its owner.

Andrew Davidson

#94. What the hell was it about e-mail that made everybody forget the stuff they learned in second grade, like capitalizing I and proper names, and using periods? Hello? We all learned how to do this less than five years out of diapers!

MaryJanice Davidson

#95. Might as well toss this, Chickie, it's ruined. What was it like, getting shot?"
"What kind of a dumb ass question is that from a guy who went to medical school? It hurt!

MaryJanice Davidson

#96. Blogs are a great way to monitor and even participate in the chatter about your new site.

Mike Davidson

#97. Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.

Adam Davidson

#98. The rush of adrenaline helped. Not a lot. I still needed a caffeine fix, but at least I was awake enough to realize I quite possibly had my underwear on inside out. Something didn't feel right down yonder.

Darynda Jones

#99. For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser.

Mike Davidson

#100. It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.

Andrew Davidson

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