Top 62 W H Davies Quotes
#2. 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
#3. No one needs a word processor if he has an efficient secretary.
Robertson Davies
#4. She has been kissed as often as a police-court Bible, and by much the same class of people.
Robertson Davies
#5. The first 2 weeks, they didn't learn the piece - they went through the process of how the piece was made.
Siobhan Davies
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Ultimate questions will always lie beyond the scope of empirical science as it is.
Paul Davies
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. You'll go far. How do I know? Because life is goosing you so hard you'll never stop climbing.
Robertson Davies
#13. 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
#15. I believe in love
Nicholas Davies - Earl of Aberdare
Mary Jo Putney
#16. But cats to me are strange, so strange I cannot sleep if one is near.
W.H. Davies
#17. Reporters have to use their imagination, really put themselves in the shoes of the person they want to interview.
Nick Davies
#18. Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
W.H. Davies
#19. It was the rainbow gave thee birth, and left thee all her lovely hues.
W.H. Davies
#20. What is this life so full of care,
We don't have time to stand and stare.
W.H. Davies
#21. What sweet, what happy days had I,When dreams made Time Eternity!
W.H. Davies
#22. No matter where the body is, the mind is free to go elsewhere.
W.H. Davies
#23. Now shall I walk or shall I ride? 'Ride,' Pleasure said; 'Walk,' Joy replied.
W.H. Davies
#24. And hear the pleasant cockoo, loud and long - The simple bird that thinks two notes a song.
W.H. Davies
#25. The more help a person has in his garden, the less it belongs to him.
W.H. Davies
#26. When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.
W.H. Davies
#27. I love thee for a heart that's kind
not for the knowledge in thy mind.
W.H. Davies
#28. Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by day And dances by false glare at night; But Joy's a Butterfly, that loves To spread its wings in Nature's light.
W.H. Davies
#29. This man has talent, that man genius
And here's the strange and cruel difference:
Talent gives pence and his reward is gold,
Genius gives gold and gets no more than pence.
W.H. Davies
#30. I turned my head and saw the wind,
Not far from where I stood,
Dragging the corn by her golden hair,
Into a dark and lonely wood.
W.H. Davies
#31. No time to see, in broad daylight,
Streams full of stars, like skies at night.
No time to turn at Beauty's glance,
And watch her feet, how they can dance.
No time to wait till her mouth can
Enrich that smile her eyes began.
W.H. Davies
#32. 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
#33. The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.
Robertson Davies
#34. 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
#35. The marvelous thing about 'Doctor Who' is that it tells stories that no one else can tell.
Russell T. Davies
#36. I loved radio for the music, concerts, parties and to think you could get paid for it.
Laura Davies
#37. I think in this country [UK] we could do with rather less political correctness and more straight talking across the board.
Philip Davies
#38. Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that's been in fashion.
Ray Davies
#40. Save me, save me, save me from this squeeze. I got a big fat mama trying to break me.
Ray Davies
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. *NB. Carlos III of Spain, Carlo I of Parma, Carlo VIII of Naples and Carlo V of Sicily were the same man.
Norman Davies
#44. Goods gone bad, but right is wrong, and I don't know which side I'm on lately.
Ray Davies
#45. 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
#46. It's Brazil 2 Scotland 1, so Scotland are back where they were at the start of the match
Barry Davies
#47. It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.
Lynn Davies
#48. In the end you become part of everything you hate, basically.
Ray Davies
#49. 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
#50. 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
#52. 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
#53. There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket.
Robertson Davies
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#62. 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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