Top 83 Davison Quotes
#1. I'm a lifelong 'Doctor Who' fan. Like, Peter Davison/Colin Baker, lifelong fan.
Andrew Kreisberg
#2. The way Yes works is when we have a new member come in, as in Jon Davison, it's appropriate that we see what differences we can get out of a new contributing member in order to keep Yes interesting.
Chris Squire
#3. I did a filmstrip on pollution in the Davison area as my Eagle Scout project and showed it around town. Businesses who were the polluters were mad at me.
Michael Moore
#4. Our producer Jon Davison thought it would be a good idea to put in additional TV scenes. So, they sent me a tape of these additional TV scenes, and I watched them, and I didn't think they were that great. I didn't think it was worth putting them in.
David Zucker
#5. What are they trying to do?" Davison asked. "I never heard of anything like this."
I took my eyes off Ginger's legs. "Gangsters," I said.
"But they've gone out of style," Davison said. "They don't have gangsters any more."
"Suppose you go out and tell them that," I said.
Jonathan Latimer
#6. Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers.
Peter Davison
#7. To be Christian is to be obliged to engage the world, pursuing God's restorative purposes over all of life,
James Davison Hunter
#8. I spent my whole life figuring out how to get out of work. I would say I was intelligent, but intelligent in a very surreptitious, invisible way.
Bruce Davison
#9. As with military campaigns, cultural warfare is always decided over the pragmatic problems of strategy, organization and resources ... The factions with the best strategies, most efficient organization, and access to resources will plainly have the advantage and very possibly, the ultimate victory.
James Davison Hunter
#10. Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
Peter Davison
#11. Ideas do have consequences in history, yet not because those ideas are inherently truthful or obviously correct but rather because of the way they are embedded in very powerful institutions, networks, interests, and symbols.
James Davison Hunter
#12. The cultural capital American Christianity has amassed simply cannot be leveraged where it matters most.
James Davison Hunter
#13. In order to understand what they need to understand, in order to write what they write, they have to be free. And yet, they aren't ever free. They are not free because they are not free of the constrictions their art puts on them.
Peter Davison
#14. If a drug failed as often and had as many side effects as western marriage, the FDA probably would not approve it.
Ron Davison
#15. Ideas are not free-floating in consciousness but are grounded in the social world in the most concrete ways.
James Davison Hunter
#17. There are so many things that poetry is about, one of which is memory.
Peter Davison
#18. The contemporary quarrel over church and state is not really about whether a wall of separation of church and state should exist or not ... The real question is what does 'separation' mean?
James Davison Hunter
#20. Choice is one level of freedom, but design is a higher
Ron Davison
#21. The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.
Peter Davison
#23. It was quite a ride and very conflicting for me, too - to be nominated for an Oscar, to be straight and healthy, and to be getting all these accolades while these people around me were suffering and dying from AIDS.
Bruce Davison
#24. I'm over there filming in South Africa now, and two in five are HIV-positive now. Not many people know that.
Bruce Davison
#25. It is very difficult for people to come in contact with their own emotions and their own sensibilities.
Peter Davison
#26. You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.
Bruce Davison
#27. Entrepreneurs become entrepreneurs for one simple reason: to be free. If you give that up, then you stop being an entrepreneur, and to hell with that. - Wilson Harrell, founder of over 100 companies and former publisher of Inc. Magazine
Ron Davison
#28. Idealism misconstrues agency, implying the capacity to bring about influence where that capacity may not exist or where it may only be weak.
James Davison Hunter
#29. THE MANDATE OF CREATION is a source both of glory and of shame for the Christian community.
James Davison Hunter
#30. I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved.
Bruce Davison
#32. Actors, lots of times, are great when they have great parts. For me, a lot of times, it's been the part.
Bruce Davison
#33. I would like to be proud of having written some poems that will be remembered, but I will never know whether I will have any reason to be proud of that.
Peter Davison
#34. I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.
Peter Davison
#35. The Great Depression in the 1930s turned many young people away from corporations towards communism. By contrast, the Great Recession in the first decade of this century seems to have turned many away from corporations towards entrepreneurship.
Ron Davison
#36. Faithfulness works itself out in the context of complex social, political, economic, and cultural forces that prevail at a particular time and place.
James Davison Hunter
#37. pay gap could be less about market realities than the fact that the corporation has yet to be democratized.
Ron Davison
#38. I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.
Bruce Davison
#39. I hate to date myself, but my earliest memories are Flash Gordon. I would love playing Flash Gordon in the neighborhood.
Bruce Davison
#40. Every so often I find some poems that are too good for the readers of The Atlantic because they are a little too involved with the nature of poetry, as such.
Peter Davison
#41. But poetry is my life. Poetry is what matters to me.
Peter Davison
#42. Millennials were the first generation to grow up with game controllers. They are not spectators. They are participants.
Ron Davison
#43. The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.
Peter Davison
#44. That's always something that's really important for an actor - to find an opportunity to do a scene where there is a moment like that, where you manage to connect with everyone.
Bruce Davison
#46. The problem, for me, with the writing programs is that they produce a terrible uniformity of product.
Peter Davison
#47. The reason one writes poems is so that your poem will be remembered.
Peter Davison
#48. It seems likely that the Internet will do for the corporation what the Guttenberg press did for the church. That is, it will break up structures we had always assumed were permanent: it will render temporal what we assumed was timeless.
Ron Davison
#49. But for me, being an editor I've been an editor of all kinds of books being an editor of poetry has been the way in which I could give a crucial part of my time to what I love most.
Peter Davison
#50. People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel.
Peter Davison
#51. I think tolerance is something everybody needs to be reminded of, especially in a reactionary political world. Well, actually, I should say, a reactionary political climate.
Bruce Davison
#52. It is a way we reassess our past. We can do that in poetry in ways we can't do in prose.
Peter Davison
#53. Well, I always try to look at my characters as being better than I am. That's one of the reasons I guess I became an actor - because you get to create a persona that's bigger or better or more interesting than your own.
Bruce Davison
#54. I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
Peter Davison
#55. There is not one single challenge to Christianity that eclipses all others in importance.
James Davison Hunter
#57. And there are a lot more people reading poetry, but there are not so many people reading an individual poet.
Peter Davison
#58. If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.
Peter Davison
#59. Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.
Bruce Davison
#61. Collecting at its best is very far from mere acquisitiveness; it may become one of the most humanistic of occupations, seeking to illustrate by the assembling of significant reliques, the march of the human spirit in its quest for beauty ...
Arthur Davison Ficke
#62. Pluralism today - at least in America - exists without a dominant culture,
James Davison Hunter
#63. They need to learn poetry. They don't need to learn about poetry. They don't need to be told how to interpret poetry. They don't need to be told how to understand poetry. They need to learn it.
Peter Davison
#64. We cannot stick our heads in the sand concerning the issue of hunger in America. Even though this subject seldom reaches the front page of our newspapers or is featured on news programs because of its lack of sensationalism, the problem exists in massive proportions and must be defeated.
Bruce Davison
#66. If Christians cannot extend grace through faithful presence within the body of believers, they will not be able to extend grace to those outside.
James Davison Hunter
#67. My friends never talk to me about my poetry because they're embarrassed that I write it or they're embarrassed by what I write about which are not such extraordinarily terrifying things, but they are the state of human existence.
Peter Davison
#68. The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between degrees of perfection.
Arthur Davison Ficke
#69. The more poetry you have in the head, the more poetry you will understand because you will be getting to the roots of what it is that makes people write poetry at all.
Peter Davison
#70. To enact a vision of human flourishing based on the qualities of life that Jesus modeled will invariably challenge the given structures of the social order. In this light, there is no true leadership without putting at risk one's time, wealth, reputation, and position.
James Davison Hunter
#71. It was not until the late 19th century that the term innovation had a positive connotation:
Ron Davison
#72. A good actor is somebody who can be truthful and fascinating and interesting and enlightening.
Bruce Davison
#73. But there is some way in which poets believe that and this is dangerous, too believe that their calling gives them a certain freedom. A certain freedom to live in a free way.
Peter Davison
#74. The test case of the civilizations in America suggests that we are predictable creatures, driven everywhere by similar needs, lusts, hopes, and follies.
Ron Davison
#75. For instance, it's a little better now than it was two or three years ago, but something like 70% of the poems I receive seem to be written in the present indicative.
Peter Davison
#77. If I were brave enough to say so, I'd like to think that I had written some poems that people are not going to forget.
Peter Davison
#78. There is little taste for 'high culture' especially in Evangelicalism, where the tendency has long been toward translation - making things accessible to the largest number of people.
James Davison Hunter
#79. A dog can express more with his tail in minutes than an owner can express with his tongue in hours.
Karen Davison
#80. Saving one dog will not change the world, but surely for that one dog, the world will change forever.
Karen Davison
#81. In my youth, I found that I was quite often inspired and pushed forward by what I read.
Peter Davison
#82. The legal and political debate surrounding the just management of plurality will continue well into the future.
James Davison Hunter
#83. Dealing with poetry is a daunting task, simply because the reason one does it as an editor at all is because one is constantly coming to terms with one's own understanding of how to understand the world.
Peter Davison
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