Top 98 Quotes About Davies

#1. In the end you become part of everything you hate, basically.

Ray Davies

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#2. The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.

Robertson Davies

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#3. Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.

John Rhys-Davies

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#4. The marvelous thing about 'Doctor Who' is that it tells stories that no one else can tell.

Russell T. Davies

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#5. I loved radio for the music, concerts, parties and to think you could get paid for it.

Laura Davies

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#6. I think in this country [UK] we could do with rather less political correctness and more straight talking across the board.

Philip Davies

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#7. Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that's been in fashion.

Ray Davies

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#8. Freedom without responsibility? What freedom is that? None at all.

David Clement-Davies

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#9. Save me, save me, save me from this squeeze. I got a big fat mama trying to break me.

Ray Davies

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#10. This is the body's nurse; but since man's wit
Found the art of cookery, to delight his sense,
More bodies are consumed and kill'd with it
Than with the sword, famine, or pestilence.

John Davies Of Hereford

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#11. Those three chords were part of my life - G, F, Bb - yeh, it is, it is, and I can't help noticing it. But there have been other things nearly as close to it which people haven't noticed, other things we have done.

Ray Davies

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#12. *NB. Carlos III of Spain, Carlo I of Parma, Carlo VIII of Naples and Carlo V of Sicily were the same man.

Norman Davies

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#13. Goods gone bad, but right is wrong, and I don't know which side I'm on lately.

Ray Davies

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#14. Independent dance - and, fine, it's a very good thing that it remains independent - is a much tougher life: all dancers expect that, and accept that there will be periods of not being able to work, provided there are choice moments during the year when they really can work.

Siobhan Davies

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#15. It's Brazil 2 Scotland 1, so Scotland are back where they were at the start of the match

Barry Davies

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#16. It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

Lynn Davies

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#17. Fear is an instinct, like hunger or anger. We need it to help us survive, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. It lets us know whether we should fight or flee.

David Clement-Davies

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#18. You can put the girl in a relationship ... ," I began, putting my arm around her. "But you can't take the boy-crazy out of the girl," Cassie finished.

Jocelyn Davies

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#19. She's an old lady from times back. Her clothes have the smell of her sheep and that rusty smell of the ancient trunk in which she keeps her things.

Denys Johnson-Davies

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#20. Physicist Paul Davies 1 Would

Lee Strobel

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#21. Men and women are different, but they are a complementary pair. Men are as they are because women are as they are. Women are as they are because men are as they are. They are a complementary pair. If they were not, they would not be as they are.

Hugh Davies

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#22. There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket.

Robertson Davies

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#23. We have survived the "Death of God" and the "Death of Man". We will surely survive "the Death of History" ... and the death of post-modernism.

Norman Davies

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#24. The people who fear humor - and they are many - are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights, to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities.

Robertson Davies

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#25. When you are making a record and if you spend too much time over it, you have to record it a tone lower or cut the tones lower because you can't reach some of the notes, I find this. But when you go on stage, you have to put the key up and it really changes the whole thing.

Ray Davies

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#26. We would make mistakes, we would argue, we would make up. We would lose the people we love and find new ones, and hold our memories close. We would fight for each other, again and again. We would keep living. We were in love.
And we were only human, after all.

Jocelyn Davies

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#27. Those 25 dancers we worked with for a day, in as highly productive a way as possible - a long class, a period of teaching bits of the repertory - in fact I didn't teach Bank, I've used parts of Oil and Water.

Siobhan Davies

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#28. I would not for a moment have you suppose that I am one of those idiots who scorns Science, merely because it is always twisting and turning, and sometimes shedding its skin, like the serpent that is [the doctors'] symbol.

Robertson Davies

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#29. To the field we are scattered from the day we are born to grow wild and sleep rough til from the earth we are torn.

Ray Davies

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#30. Man will try to guard his faith more preciously even than his gold.

David Clement-Davies

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#31. Then I got together with my brother and a friend and we decided to play dates. The more we played, the more we wanted to do it. And it got to a stage where we wanted to do it all the time.

Ray Davies

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#32. Reporters have to use their imagination, really put themselves in the shoes of the person they want to interview.

Nick Davies

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#33. I have - I have more than an interesting task in piloting Wales into our new democracy, without wanting to exercise draconian powers on behalf of anybody else - I can assure of that.

Ron Davies

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#34. No one needs a word processor if he has an efficient secretary.

Robertson Davies

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#35. She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.

Robertson Davies

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#36. The first 2 weeks, they didn't learn the piece - they went through the process of how the piece was made.

Siobhan Davies

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#37. The demands are related to their questing of the best possible out of the people concerned. It's this going for the highest possible factor that I'm very concerned about.

Peter Maxwell Davies

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#38. I tried to whip some feelings up but the inside of my chest was as hollow as an empty rubbish bin; totally, absolutely dried up, with my poor, tiny heart lying at the bottom like a crushed coke can.

Deborah Kay Davies

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#39. 1. It must work. 2. It must be secure. 3. It should be as fast as reasonably possible. 4. It must be modular/extensible. 5. It must be easy to read/understand.

Joshua Davies

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#40. Ultimate questions will always lie beyond the scope of empirical science as it is.

Paul Davies

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#41. Once you've got a child to the point that they've discovered books, they're safe. There's a world of the imagination that when they're hurt or upset, they can move into, and it is wonderful.

John Rhys-Davies

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#42. When I was a student almost nobody thought there was any life beyond Earth. Today it's fashionable to say that there is life all over the place, that the universe is teeming with it, but the scientific facts on the ground haven't really changed.

Paul Davies

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#43. You'll go far. How do I know? Because life is goosing you so hard you'll never stop climbing.

Robertson Davies

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#44. The body is the inescapable factor, you see. You can keep in good shape for what you are, but radical change is impossible. Health isn't making everybody into a Greek ideal; it's living out the destiny of the body.

Robertson Davies

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#45. Democracy will be dead by 1950.

John Langdon-Davies

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#46. I believe in love
Nicholas Davies - Earl of Aberdare

Mary Jo Putney

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#47. My God, that scene in Monster Inc. where the monsters realise that their entire world is founded on hurting children -look at that for a change! Two galumphing cartoon characters making a shattering realisation about their world and their role in sustaining it. A truly epic moment. It's stunning.

Russell T. Davies

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#48. She can't see me staring at her cause I'm always wearing shades.

Ray Davies

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#49. I looked in the mirror at my pigeon chest, I had to put my clothes on cause it made me depressed.

Ray Davies

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#50. Over the last decade, economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.

Gavyn Davies

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#51. There's nothing like the discipline of having to work on a cold film set on the Danubian plain in Bulgaria. Boy, does it get cold.

John Rhys-Davies

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#52. What is meant to be heard is necessarily more direct in expression, and perhaps more boldly coloured, than what is meant for the reader.

Robertson Davies

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#53. Forgive yourself for being a human creature, Ramezay. That is the beginning of wisdom; that is part of what is meant by the fear of God; and for you it is the only way to save your sanity. Begin now, or you will end up with your saint in the madhouse.

Robertson Davies

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#54. If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks,
Making us pry into ourselves so, near,
Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all books,
Or all the learned schools that ever were.

Sir John Davies

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#55. And Watford acknowledge the support of the crowd, indeed of the crowd that supported them

Barry Davies

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#56. The Summa Theologiae is not, as is sometimes supposed, a potpourri of theology and philosophy; it is wholly a Summa of Theology concerned with the Sacra Doctrina, the Holy Teaching of salvation given by God's revelation.

Brian Davies

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#57. He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father.

Robertson Davies

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#58. The script of 'Shogun' was so tight that you could not take a word out of a sentence, you could not take a sentence out of a scene, and you certainly couldn't take out a scene without putting ripples right through the back or the front of the overall story.

John Rhys-Davies

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#59. The present government is very insistent that business sponsorship should replace government sponsorship of the arts. Business sponsorship won't happen unless you make tax concessions, which they won't.

Peter Maxwell Davies

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#60. I don't start a piece knowing exactly what effect it's going to have. There is a seed of an idea that I could never articulate, right at the beginning of the piece, literally like one cell.

Siobhan Davies

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#61. If you're writing a piece for the Boston Pops, the balance is towards one end. If you're writing a piece for a chamber music society, then it's towards another point. I won't make a final answer on that. I think it changes with every piece.

Peter Maxwell Davies

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#62. We need balance. We need to balance our inner life with our outer life. Nature is always sitting there waiting to help us, but we have to do the work. Nature is probably the greatest teacher that we'll ever have ... the earth and nature.

Dave Davies

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#63. I'd really like to change the world and save it from the mess it's in. I'm so weak, I'm so thin, I want to fly, but I can't even swim.

Ray Davies

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#64. I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.

Robertson Davies

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#65. In a film muddied by fictional detail, the new Spielberg production 'Fifth Estate's portrayal of the 'Guardian's work with Wikileaks is accurate in describing the running dispute between journalists who wanted to redact documents to make them safe and Julian Assange, who wanted no such restraint.

Nick Davies

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#66. There's the satisfaction of Eng-Lang-and-Lit; somebody else has said everything for you, and said it better.

Robertson Davies

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#67. The immediate future may be determined by a race between the United Kingdom and the EU over which beats the other to a major crisis.

Norman Davies

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#68. Julian Assange is self-consciously an individual. He thinks in his own way, primarily as a physicist, having studied pure maths and physics at university in Australia where he grew up.

Nick Davies

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#69. Jogging in the park is my excuse to look at all the girls.

Ray Davies

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#70. Like it or not, to reach middle age with less money or less prestige than our father had is somewhat to lose face. Stupid of course, when put like that, but who is prepared to argue that we are not stupid in several important ways?

Robertson Davies

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#71. The people of the United States, perhaps more than any other nation in history, love to abase themselves and proclaim their unworthiness, and seem to find refreshment in doing so ... That is a dark frivolity, but still frivolity.

Robertson Davies

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#72. Conversations and jokes together, mutual rendering of good services, the reading together of sweetly phrased books, the sharing of nonsense and mutual attentions.

Robertson Davies

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#73. Real courage is not to give up hope, even in the most terrible darkness, and to carry on. That if courage and love is deep as despair, deeper, then light may come again

David Clement-Davies

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#74. Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!
(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

Russell T. Davies

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#75. 'Shogun' was a mini-series, so even though it went on television, we filmed it like a movie.

John Rhys-Davies

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#76. If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creature s let him begin the long, solitary task of perfecting himself.

Robertson Davies

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#77. The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

Peter Maxwell Davies

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#78. I used to be Snow White but then I drifted.

Bette Davies

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#79. Three men, together riding, Can win new worlds at their will; Resolute, neer dividing, Lead, and be victors still. Three can laugh and doom a king, Three can make the planets sing.

Mary Carolyn Davies

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#80. I am a believer in the evolutionary process, and yet I have sympathy for the friends of mine who are creationists. I don't find the positions incompatible.

John Rhys-Davies

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#81. Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for?

Ray Davies

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#82. Thou art true and honest as a dog.

Sir John Davies

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#83. There's one thing you don't put in a trap, if you're smart, if you value your continued existance, if you have any plans about seeing tomorrow, there is one thing you never ever put in a trap.
And what would that be sir?
Me

Russell T. Davies

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#84. If you cannot have fun on a set and enjoy what you're doing, you're better off giving it up.

John Rhys-Davies

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#85. I just am a Canadian. It is not a thing which you can escape from. It is like having blue eyes

Robertson Davies

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#86. There's nothing better than a party that turns into a death trap.

Russell T. Davies

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#87. I'm susceptible to that sort of thing - to walls and flowers. You can probably get something more from a wall than a person sometimes. It's just put somewhere.

Ray Davies

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#88. You make alterations, affecting your pose, a new house, a new car, a new job, a new nose.

Ray Davies

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#89. Dissatisfied with what I am, I want to be a better man.

Ray Davies

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#90. The situation is clear. I trust in my ability, I trust in what I do and, if people put their trust in me, I will deliver for them.

Billy Davies

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#91. The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.

Samuel Davies

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#92. I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act.
We will breathe into each other the high mountain tales, where the snows come from, where the waters begin.
-In the yellow time of pollen

Luke Davies

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#93. What makes me laugh about politics, sometimes, is it seems like once we get to a point where our problems are seemingly unsolvable, it's because we're looking through a wrong point of view. If we turn the thing on its head, then maybe we might see it differently.

Dave Davies

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#94. Marriage is a framework to preserve friendship. It is valuable because it gives much more room to develop than just living together. It provides a base from which a person can work at understanding himself and another person.

Robertson Davies

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#95. What passes relentlessly through the years is blood, and time; all the bitterness or warmth along the way is almost incidental. Even blood gets forgotten eventually, bleached into myth which are bleached of all colour into ashes of myth.

Luke Davies

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#96. An ambassador', quipped Sir Henry Wootton, 'is an honest man sent to lie abroad for the good of his country.

Norman Davies

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#97. A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.

Robertson Davies

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#98. When one is traveling, one must expect to spend a certain amount of money foolishly.

Robertson Davies

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