Dowie Quotes

#1. Whether out of professional pique or some instinct of fear, the ship's mascot - a cat named Dowie, after Captain Turner's predecessor - fled the ship that night, for points unknown.

Erik Larson

#2. I thought a bit of poetry might be interesting - I even write a few lines myself. I composed a short poem for my mum's 70th birthday recently. When I recited it I saw the glint of a tear in her eye ... although I guess it wasn't the quality of the poetry was that making her cry!

Iain Dowie

#3. Sometimes I look around and wonder, how the hell did I get here? How is this my life? It all changed so fast. But then I stop wondering. Because how this life became mine doesn't really fucking matter. I'm just crazy-happy that it is.

Emma Chase

#4. Andy Johnson is quick, brave and strong and he will get goals,

Iain Dowie

#5. When you are raised Catholic, there is one thing that you are confronted with at a young age, and that's death. You're confronted with all the big issues - and that sparks deep questions, like what the hell are we doing here, anyway?

Martin Donovan

#6. There are some real positives for Wales. Their back four's not bad, sometimes.

Iain Dowie

#7. Want costs you nothing, unless you try to spend it.

David Levithan

#8. I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

John Barth

#9. I think he likes it. He fits in with our ethos. He's a good worker and is an excellent pro. Thank goodness he likes his training or else he wouldn't settle here.

Iain Dowie

#10. It's now much more 50-50 in favour of Everton.

Iain Dowie

#11. When I'm doing a film, I love getting together after work with my costars. But we get back to L.A. and I'm like, 'I don't want to go to a club with you, dude. I mean, I think you're rad, and if you want to come play Scrabble with me, that's amazing.'

Ginnifer Goodwin

#12. If you conform, you miss all of the adventures and stand against the progress of society.

Debasish Mridha

#13. I monitor the food my players eat on a Friday night. It's no good if they've had two vindaloos and a kebab.

Iain Dowie

#14. He has gone to a place I cannot find him. I cannot sing him home.

Alexandra Bracken

#15. People want you to produce records. They don't care what it took to make it. When a band is out doing concerts, the fans don't want to know about equipment difficulties. They want their hour-and-a-half release, and that's it.

Slash

#16. There are many Christians who are Christians in theory only, and they are worldlings in practice.

John Alexander Dowie

#17. That was totally against the runaway

Iain Dowie

#18. And the tiresome part of sorrows is that they do not hurt in proportion to their validity and excusability. If we are to be sympathetic, we can remember always that silly suffering hurts just as much as sensible suffering.

Menie Muriel Dowie

#19. Busy idleness urges us on.

Horace

#20. God help me now to preach the Word to all the dying around, and tell them how.

John Alexander Dowie

#21. I did enough algebra when I was at university, so I am sick and tired of that.

Iain Dowie

#22. The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.

Bill Bryson

#23. I knew you were in charge of me but my mind broke on its own.

Alice Notley

#24. I'm not jumping on the Andy Johnson for England bandwagon - I'm driving it!

Iain Dowie

#25. All small children are weathermen.

Amie Ryan

#26. You do not base your belief that Jesus is the Saviour from sin upon the fact that somebody is saved, or says he is saved; but you base it upon the Word of the living God; and there you stand.

John Alexander Dowie