Top 100 Davy Quotes
#1. I never sexually took advantage of being Davy Jones. I wasn't the kind of guy who would hit on a girl on the road and have casual sex. I don't have casual sex
Davy Jones
#2. Yo ho, yo ho, the pirate life, The flag o' skull and bones, A merry hour, a hempen rope, And hey for Davy Jones.' At
J.M. Barrie
#3. The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts; he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters.
H.L. Mencken
#4. We're just doing our best to live in this world, Davy." Sean's voice stretches into the fading dark. "We're not perfect, but we're not monsters, either. We're just human.
Sophie Jordan
#5. I was introduced to Mr. Davy, who has rooms adjoining mine (in the Royal Institution); he is a very agreeable and intelligent young man, and we have interesting conversation in an evening ...
John Dalton
#6. But Mr. Davy would not become a doctor, for a copy of Lavoisier's Elements of Chemistry fell into his hands. Soon enough, Davy was discharged from Dr. Borlase's service because of his habit of performing explosive experiments.
Benjamin Wiker
#7. Mr Humphry Davy is a lively and talented man, and a thorough chemist ...
Joseph Banks
#8. I've got one of four known Davy Crocket rifles. It's fantastic just to know it's one of the rifles that he actually used. His cousin had it.
Phil Collins
#9. I feel sorry now myself," admitted Davy, "but the trouble is I never feel sorry for doing things till after I've did them.
L.M. Montgomery
#10. There are three motels in Davy if you go north, and at least six over in Marthasville if you go west. If you go to the interstate, there are a skadillion places to stay.
Charlaine Harris
#11. Davy lets fly an oath and storms out of the hold. We hear his fist hit the wall as he leaves.
you really are an evil girl, says Jaimy.
I know, I murmur. I shall have to pay.
L.A. Meyer
#12. The last time I appeared in Las Vegas, they were wearing hoop skirts and Davy Crockett hats, ... But they say 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas.' And as far as fashion is concerned, that's a good thing.
Joan Rivers
#13. It is Davy's job to decipher and transmit information into code. Sexual language is like that, Freddie thinks. Everything coded. Everything stripped down to elementary dots and dashes.
Glenn Haybittle
#14. You said yourself they didn't hurt your girl."
Waiting, Davy asked, "How many times does a dog have to bite before you put him down?
Leif Enger
#15. Now, let's see how you fare against the Flying Dutchman and her vile captain, Davy Jones!
Davy Jones
#16. It was the 1950s, you know, and they had a ray gun, which was basically a flashlight with a sort of trigger on it. And it buzzed and a red light, you know, came on. But anyway we all had one - Davy Crockett hat.
Nick Lowe
#17. Yer a dead man!" Davy shouts, going in a full circle with the horse jumping and rearing.
"Yer half right," I say.
Patrick Ness
#18. When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh, my pantheon of favorite heroes. Then I would write my own things and sew them together and try to make my own book.
Douglas Brinkley
#19. Sir Humphrey Davy Abominated gravy. He lived in the odium Of having discovered sodium. Said to have been written as a schoolboy during a chemistry class at St. Paul's School.
E.C. Bentley
#20. I'm related to Davy Crockett on my mom's side. Honest.
Libba Bray
#21. I'm liver than Jay, Davy, and Kathy and Regis, been on more MTV shows than Butthead and Beavis.
Nelly
#22. I am richer than Davy Crockett. I can settle back and do what I want to do. And what I want to do is card tricks and magic.
Harry Anderson
#24. Davy, I knew the exact time of your birth and what you would look like when the time was at hand, for I dream dreams. Now is the time. A great evil is brewing in the land that will turn the nation against itself. But you must make a stand for what is right. Be strong, young man, be strong.
David Holdsworth
#25. After Davy had gone to bed Anne wandered down to Victoria Island and sat there alone, curtained with fine-spun, moonlit gloom, while the water laughed around her in a duet of brook and wind.
L.M. Montgomery
#26. I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt.
Phil Collins
#27. I'm like the Davy Crockett of comedy ... after Davy Crockett opened up the West and helped everybody ... they didn't need him anymore. I freed a lot of comics ... if I never would have done comedy, it would've been a different art form ... I'm sure of it.
Paul Mooney
#28. Davy's work in Bristol came under attack by conservative politicians, including the famous Irish MP Edmund Burke, who accused the gas experiments of promoting not only atheism but the French Revolution.
Mark Kurlansky
#29. Anybody bugs you, anybody at all, I'll rip off both his arms. You got me?"
She tried to smile. "That's sweet, Davy. Bloodthirsty, but sweet.
Shannon McKenna
#30. The squiggly rubber Davy Jones face in 'Pirates' with the tentacles, barnacles and goobers - that's modeled on me.
Stephen Hunter
#31. All your life Davy, you'll find yourself doing things you don't want to do - Anne Shirley
L.M. Montgomery
#32. Davy once asked me if I thought it was better to be a has-been than a never was, but maybe it doesn't make much of a difference. In the end, people are just people, and the only things that matter are whether they are good or bad, loving or unloving, loved or unloved.
Todd Strasser
#33. When everyone else saw the two of them, they saw Gavin who was nothing but trouble and Davy who was a wallflower, but in Gavin's estimation, if you looked inside you'd see that Gavin was just a scared little boy and Davy was his hero.
Kade Boehme
#34. Davy was the type of all the jumped-up second-raters of all time.
C.P. Snow
#35. When did it come to Davy Land that exile is a country of shifting borders, hard to quit yet hard to endure, no matter your wide shoulders, no matter your toughened heart?
Leif Enger
#36. Have you ever met a woman you wanted to give everything to?
just turn over everything you had?
-Davy Dempsey-
Jennifer Crusie
#37. The principles upon which a safety lamp might be constructed I stated to several persons long before Sir Humphrey Davy came into this part of the country.
George Stephenson
#38. Davy Crockett and James Bowie got what was coming to them," Mom said. "for stealing this land from the Mexicans" - and
Anonymous
#39. I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape.
'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.
L.M. Montgomery
#40. I had always served beauty. Davy and I together had loved beauty. Now, maybe, I was worshipping beauty in the Christian God while Davy was worshipping God. There may be danger in the love of beauty, though it seems treason to say it. Perhaps it can be a snare.
Sheldon Vanauken
#41. Oh, I think some parts of it are fine," conceded Davy. "That story about Joseph now - it's bully. But if I'd been Joseph Iwouldn't have forgive the brothers. No, siree, Anne. I'd have cut all their heads off.
L.M. Montgomery
#42. And every day in heaven will be more beautiful than the one before it Davy, assured Anne.
L.M. Montgomery
#43. When I was five or six, I started dressing up like Davy Crockett.
Phil Collins
#44. I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.
Davy Crockett
#45. A bulger of a place it is. The number of the ships beat me all hollow, and looked for all the world like a big clearing in the West, with the dead trees all standing.
Davy Crockett
#47. I couldn't imagine leaving a child. Not because it was unthinkable, but because I couldn't imagine having a child to leave.
V.T. Davy
#48. My first ever stage performance was in Edinburgh in 1960.
Davy Jones
#49. And actually, about three weeks ago, Micky, Peter and I were in Vegas at the MGM Grand. And we did about 12 shows in seven days. It was quite an experience.
Davy Jones
#50. I'm an open Minded Man. How about a threesom? You, me and the machine?
Jennifer Crusie
#51. There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity.
Humphry Davy
#52. Marry her right away. Tomorrow, if you want. You don't know how much time you get with someone, so you might as well start right away.
Davy Rothbart
#53. I never slept alone until I was married.
Davy Jones
#54. I envy no quality of the mind or intellect in others; not genius, power, wit, nor fancy; but, if I could choose what would be most delightful, and, I believe, most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to every other blessing.
Humphry Davy
#55. I only bet on what's dearest to a man's heart. Else there is no way to tell if he's bluffing. What a man is willing to risk or not to risk, that's a measure of his soul.
Davy Jones
#56. The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.
Davy Crockett
#57. The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?
Davy Jones
#58. People like to be shown around archives. I don't know why. I'm in the business, but one row of shelves stuffed with manila files looks much like another.
V.T. Davy
#61. The place I write best is at the Angell Hall computer center on the University of Michigan campus, where I went to school. I still go over there and rock it through the night.
Davy Rothbart
#62. Every discovery opens a new field for investigation of facts, shows us the imperfection of our theories. It has justly been said, that the greater the circle of light, the greater the boundary of darkness by which it is surrounded.
Humphry Davy
#63. Every day when I open the mail I encounter a find with a brand-new brew of story and emotion.
Davy Rothbart
#64. I was going to dine at the television company's expense with one of the most beautiful women in show business and some television producer with an inferiority complex. In my experience, there's always a price.
V.T. Davy
#65. Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science are ultimate, that there are no mysteries in nature, that our triumphs are complete and that there are no new worlds to conquer.
Humphry Davy
#66. Sorrow, it is said, will make even an oyster feel poetical. I never tried my hand at that sort of writing but on this particular occasion such was my state of feeling, that I began to fancy myself inspired; so I took pen in hand, and as usual I went ahead.
Davy Crockett
#67. It used to be 65 when you went into retirement. Before that, when you got into your 50s, you were getting older.
Davy Jones
#68. People ask me if I ever get sick of playing 'Daydream Believer' or whatever. But I don't look at it that way. Do they ask if Tony Bennett is tired of 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco?'
Davy Jones
#69. Wherever I go, people still shout out: 'Hey, hey, we're The Monkees.' And I never tire of that.
Davy Jones
#70. I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.
Davy Crockett
#71. We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living.
Davy Crockett
#72. Well, I have my immortal soul. At least, I'm pretty sure I didn't misplace it somewhere along the way.
Davy Jones
#73. I'm about to challenge for the Maryland Cup in the next couple of years, as an owner, a trainer, and a rider.
Davy Jones
#74. If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the universal earth.
Davy Crockett
#75. Nothing tends so much to the advancement of knowledge as the application of a new instrument.
Humphry Davy
#76. Before I was an actor I was an apprentice jockey, and now I'm out there racing against boys, sort of the spokesperson for people over 50 that they can do it.
Davy Jones
#77. They want to know I'm doing good, the fans do.
Davy Jones
#78. Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice - a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess.
Davy Crockett
#79. The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complaining: not one asked to be spared, but fought as long as they could stand or sit.
Davy Crockett
#80. Some of us are killers. It's in our blood ... that ability. It doesn't mean we walk around killing withour conscience, but we're just ... better equipped to do it. Some people don't have it in them, but we do. You'll feel a lot better once you accept that.
Sophie Jordan
#81. Thare is no chance of hurrying bussiness here like in the legeslature of a State thare is such a desposition here to Show Eloquence that this will be a long Session and do no good ...
Davy Crockett
#82. Once you get into something so big, people think of you in one way.
Davy Jones
#83. I'm trying to quit huffing epoxy glue out of grocery bags.
Davy Rothbart
#84. You don't rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present.
V.T. Davy
#85. As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
Davy Jones
#86. Congress allows lemonade to the members and has it charged under the head of stationery-I move also that whiskey be allowed under the item of fuel.
Davy Crockett
#87. Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans.
Davy Jones
#88. The questions people have are sometimes soulful, sometimes zany, sometimes incoherent. I want to make a 'zine with just the questions I get emailed to me.
Davy Rothbart
#89. In general, I always make it my mission to focus on the one person in the audience who seems to be absolutely miserable about being there and try to convert them.
Davy Rothbart
#90. There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all.
Davy Crockett
#91. When a beautiful blonde asks, you don't say no.
V.T. Davy
#92. People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and disorderly or sleeping around.
Davy Jones
#94. If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?
Davy Crockett
#95. I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore.
Davy Jones
#96. My wife says when I go out to the refrigerator, I do three minutes (entertaining) when the light goes on!
Davy Jones
#97. My dashed hopes putt-putted bravely to life once more, like a bug that gets stomped on but keeps pulling itself across the floor.
Davy Rothbart
#98. The Beatles set the rules. And the rules were: now just because we have long hair doesn't mean that we're rebellious.
Davy Jones
#99. I own property in a quiet little town of Pennsylvania.
Davy Jones
#100. I want people to be able to get what they need to live: enough food, a place to live, and an education for their children. Government does not provide these as well as private charities and businesses.
Davy Crockett
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