David Bailey Quotes

I used to love the '20s.

David Bailey

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• When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Long
  • Play

• Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Time
  • Family
  • Taken

• My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • American
  • Change
  • Brother

• A lot of fans have been requesting that in-your-face song, a sense of feeling empowered. And 'Good Woman' is that: a relatable song celebrating the good woman. I'm also really proud of the third verse, which I wrote.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Good
  • Song
  • Feeling

• I think I may have failed at a lot of things, but the one thing I can say, and that I'm proud of, is that I am a good parent.

  

  Naveen Andrews
  • Good
  • May
  • Proud

• I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • Religion
  • Dog

• Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Like
  • Person
  • Choice

• I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Women
  • Reason
  • Songs

• There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.

  

  Zoketsu Norman Fischer
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Perception
  • Act
  • Mental

• Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Work
  • Government

• Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • May
  • Road
  • English

• I'm a man of my word.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Man
  • Word

• I won't say, 'I have two degrees; I shouldn't be getting your latte.' Because I paid my dues when I got to the table, I actually had something to say.

  

  Dana Fox
  • Say
  • Two
  • Table

• We need to make more original movies, and audiences would do well to support original movies for the future of the medium.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Future
  • Support
  • Movies

• Towards the end of the military service, I had to make what I assume has been the most important decision in my career: to start a residency in clinical medicine, in surgery, which was my favorite choice, or to enroll into graduate school and start a career in scientific research. It was clear to me that I was heading for graduate school.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Important
  • School
  • Career

• 'You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist.' - Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, January 14, 1991

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Nice

• Herr: es ist Zeit. Der Sommer war sehr groß. Leg deinen Schatten auf die Sonnenuhren, und auf den Fluren laß die Winde los.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • War
  • Die

• I like to think I was just lucky. I didn't think I was better than anybody else, but I could sing everybody's songs.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations

• Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • People
  • Death
  • Die

• I like to play around with mixing high-end with more affordable pieces.

  

  Ashley Madekwe
  • High

• Yet it is incumbent on those in high places to make wise decisions and it is reasonable and important that the public be correctly informed. It is consequently incumbent on all of us to state the facts as forthrightly as possible.

  

  Hyman G. Rickover
  • Important
  • High
  • Wise

• I used to love the '20s.

  

  David Bailey