Dorothy Salisbury Davis Quotes
I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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I don't think I have a signature.
J. J. Abrams -
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
Karl Kraus -
I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
Zachary Quinto -
One of the most interesting things about science fiction and fantasy is the way that the genres can offer different perspectives on matters to do with the body, the mind, medical technology, and the way we live our lives.
Tansy Rayner Roberts -
I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
Mads Mikkelsen -
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
Edsger Dijkstra
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
Warren Bennis -
Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
Rachael Harris -
I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
Ferdinand Marcos -
I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
Gary Carr -
Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
Harriet Van Horne -
I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'
Lara Stone
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Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.
Carl D. Anderson -
This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
Ed Westwick -
Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
Kate Clinton -
Give news a little more time, and don't request that they also, in their news time, entertain. We're not entertainers. We're journalists. And we need more time to do our job well.
Walter Cronkite -
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp -
I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
Ian Frazier
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I'm not the kind of actress that goes home with the character. I mean, you're thinking about the work or the next day's scenes, but not staying in character. But as a film goes on, you become more and more fragile, emotionally. And physically too, actually.
Natasha Richardson -
Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
Max Beerbohm -
I think that we're living in a time where there are trillion-dollar opportunities that never existed before.
Peter Diamandis -
I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis