Dave Davies Quotes

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 The Kinks

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• I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Music
  • Beautiful

• It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • World
  • Writing
  • Women

• First developed as a weapon by the U.S. Army, VX is an oily, odorless and tasteless liquid that kills on contact with the skin or when inhaled in aerosol form. Like other nerve agents, it is treatable in the first minutes after exposure but otherwise leads swiftly to fatal convulsions and respiratory failure.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Failure
  • Army
  • First

• The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011 was an immense tragedy that sparked a global response. The international community came forward with aid to the victims and came together to address the broader concerns about nuclear security and safety.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Together
  • Community
  • Safety

• I started at an agency called Intertalent. You copy scripts, you pick up people's dry cleaning, you take their dogs to the vet, you deliver packages, you do whatever they want you to do.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I've got to say something to the guy.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Forget

• As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.

  

  Nate Powell
  • You
  • Learning
  • Text

• I became a vegetarian at 15. I was always an animal lover and, as a teenager, became increasingly uncomfortable with the idea of eating meat. It was then that I started to research vegetarianism.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Animal
  • Teenager
  • Research

• All of us know someone who has been through difficult emotional times, and we know how hard it can be to see a way forward.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Know
  • Emotional
  • Difficult

• France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • People
  • Love
  • Door

• Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Done
  • Poetry
  • Convince

• The vanities of all others may gradually die out, but the vanity of a saint regarding his sainthood is hard indeed to wear away.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • May
  • Die

• This is the only thing I know.

  

  Eminem
  • Know
  • Thing

• It's absolutely, completely and totally reprehensible. And as you know from the Italian expression: The fish stinks from the head down. But I can tell you two fish that don't stink, and that's me and the President.

  

  Anthony Scaramucci
  • Italian

• You can't have it both ways. Either our rights come from God, as our Declaration of Independence says, or they come from human choice. If they come from human choice, then our whole way of life is meaningless, it has no foundation.

  

  Alan Keyes
  • Life
  • God

• Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Business
  • Kids
  • Father

• Some people think Hollywood is shallow. I find that it's home.

  

  Chelsea Handler
  • People
  • Home

• Most people who open restaurants will fail, because they lack the fundamental understanding of restaurant math. Either they think they're superstar cooks or they think they're superstar hosts.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • People
  • Understanding
  • Math

• As debate is rare in the House of Representatives, since nearly all real business is done in the committees, it is very natural that such debate as there is should be very oratorical, should be

  

  D. W Brogan
  • Real
  • Done
  • Business

• Parents, teachers, and other school staff need the tools to help these young people early in their lives. And the earlier, the better. It is proven that early action prevents problems later in life.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • People
  • Life
  • School

• 'I feel healthy! I feel happy I feel terrific

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Happy

• Glamorous people bring something to others. They are seductive attractive - and it has nothing to do with frivolity. Glamour sticks to people. An object is not glamorous, but places where people go are glamorous. That's why New York is the glamour capital of the world.

  

  Jacqueline de Ribes
  • New York
  • Places
  • Object

• Didn't you know? All stepmothers are witches. It is our compensation for remaining forever an intruder in another woman's house.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • House
  • Woman
  • Compensation

• 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 The Kinks