Davinia Quotes

#1. I used to have a silk dressing gown an uncle bought in Japan and when I came downstairs in it, my dad used to call me Davinia. There was never embarrassment about that kind of thing. My sister used to dress me up a lot. She thought I was a little doll.

David Walliams

#2. If you increase the quantity of money, you bring about the lowering of the purchasing power of the monetary unit.

Ludwig Von Mises

#3. The closer you are to death, the more alive you feel.

Chris Hemsworth

#4. The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.

Barack Obama

#5. How many times in her thirty years had she heard the same remarks, the same feeble jokes about her name?

Haruki Murakami

#6. The role of government is to create responsible greed to keep boundaries around what people do.

Rebecca M. Blank

#7. People can learn a lot from one another if their need to be right falls away.

K.L. Jordaan

#8. For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it is to be a child.

Soren Kierkegaard

#9. Writers never really like each other anyway. Our insecurities get in the way.

Bill Willingham

#10. Beauty seems to strike some people as a personal affront.

Claude Debussy

#11. All things in the fulness of time

Colin Channer

#12. There are cities that are damned for some people by the mere fact that they seem created to close off the distances that are the only reason for living.

Julien Gracq