Quotes About Anthony Davis

#1. Then I want to beat Anthony Davis' shot-block record, and I want to win National Player of the Year. I definitely plan to put the work in to accomplish those goals.

Nerlens Noel

#2. Anthony Davis is cool.

Deron Williams

#3. I knew I could never be accepted as a straight-ahead jazz musician, nor would Iaccept myself as that. I would never be accepted as a minimalist. I wouldn't be adowntown composer. Because I find all orthodoxies, all doctrines to be ultimatelybanal.

Anthony Davis

#4. Hearing is believing ... a magician with the piano.

Anthony Davis

#5. The thing about Depeche songs is that they're so descriptive. For me, they tell some kind of story about a character who's trying to redeem himself or to find something to believe in-some kind of faith or hope.

Dave Gahan

#6. I always tried so hard to fit in, and then I figured out that I didn't want to fit.

Anthony Davis

#7. I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is just as stupid as saying, You could grow eyes in the back of your head if you really wanted to.

Philip K. Dick

#8. May God have mercy on your souls. May God bless your souls.

Troy Anthony Davis

#9. It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#10. I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music.

Anthony Davis

#11. We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language.

Jean Berko Gleason

#12. The struggle for justice doesn't end with me. This struggle is for all the Troy Davises who came before me and all the ones who will come after me.

Troy Anthony Davis

#13. Always respect other peoples beliefs, and never impose your beliefs on others.

Anthony R. Davis

#14. We worked so hard, spent so much time in weight room and in camps to be where we are today. We wanted to come out and be as good as any team in the state, to prove we could hang with any team at any time.

Anthony Davis

#15. She'd always had a hankering for sitting quietly in dark, confined spaces.

Robert Beatty

#16. When I was that age, I was uncertain of how to move, whether I was walking too fast, whether others could see the discomfort and stiffness in me. As if everyone were constantly gauging my performance and finding it lacking.

Emma Cline

#17. Sammy Davis, Andy Williams, Tony Bennett ... their records sell in the millions; when I do it, it just trickles. But for the composer and lyricist, there's a tidy bit to be made that way, too, so I don't really mind.

Anthony Newley

#18. Only one music comes out of me.

Anthony Davis

#19. Time and rhythm are the most important elements in music. If both aren't well conceived, organized, and executed, no amount of notes will make the piece a meaningful artistic experience.

Anthony Davis

#20. You have your own perceptions as an artist because you're put on this planet to create mystery, but you're put here to unravel mysteries too.

Anthony Davis

#21. A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain.

Colleen Houck

#22. Because he believed that if you wanted to get rid of a hole, you filled it. He had not realized at the time that there were all sorts of filler that took up space, but had no substance. That made you feel just as empty.

Jodi Picoult

#23. The secret to living long is to have something to live for.

David Levithan