Dave Davies Quotes

My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.

Dave Davies The Kinks

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• I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Never

• If I must choose between healthy and tasty, I go for the second: having only one life to waste, it might as well be a pleasurable one.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Life
  • Healthy
  • Choose

• We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Energy
  • Wind
  • Solar

• Lyrically, I personally lean towards venting.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Personally
  • Lean
  • Lyrically

• Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Love
  • Dying
  • For Her

• We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.

  

  Barney Ross
  • Force
  • Three
  • Task

• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Same
  • Circumstances

• This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would play this game where, if we were driving with my parents and saw a junk shop or an antique shop, we'd scream at the top of our lungs. My poor father would have heart failure and screech to a halt, and we'd leap out and go and explore.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Heart
  • Father
  • Game

• The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I don't feel I made any sacrifices at all. I'm doing my best to juggle.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Best
  • Feel
  • Doing

• I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Love
  • Food
  • Healthy

• The best way to get to know the place you are traveling in is to walk around... and the best way to walk around is with comfortable shoes! Grab your travel buddy and your running shoes and go explore!

  

  Laura Marano
  • Running
  • Best
  • Travel

• I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Time
  • Like
  • Find

• Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Great
  • American
  • First

• 'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Good
  • Great
  • Different

• I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.

  

  Barry Williams
  • Live
  • Love
  • Passion

• I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.

  

  Man Ray
  • Imagination
  • Dreams
  • Drive

• This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • People
  • Perfect
  • Hand

• I guess art itself is insane. Its actual function is rarely clear, and yet people give their hearts and souls and lives to it, and have for all of history.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Art
  • History

• In 10 years, I'd love to live near the sea, in a warmer climate. I could see myself with three dogs... and it'd be great to share them with someone else.

  

  Luke Evans
  • Great
  • Live
  • Sea

• I had only heard about Fall Out Boy a couple months before we contacted him. I heard 'Saturday' and 'Grand Theft Autumn' and thought the lyrics were smart and the singer was insanely talented.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Fall
  • Couple
  • Boy

• A globalized world is by now a familiar fact of life. Building walls or moats may sound appealing, but the future belongs to those who tend to their people and then boldly engage the rest of the world, near and far.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The average Londoner knows just one neighbour. I travel a lot, and I'm always surprised by the strong sense of community in some countries. We've lost something fundamentally human, and we don't even realise it.

  

  Lily Cole
  • Strong
  • Community
  • Lost

• My family making music was like a folk background, really: banging on tabletops, playing banjo and all kinds of things.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • Music
  • Family