Davinia Taylor Quotes

I was debauched in my 20s, but I was fit and healthy in my teens.

Davinia Taylor

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• For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.

  

  Lactantius
  • Live
  • Speak
  • Living

• Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Time
  • Great
  • Sports

• What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.

  

  J. August Richards
  • People
  • Country
  • Love

• I have composed several pieces which are performed outdoors, not only in the auditoria.

  

  Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Pieces
  • Only
  • Outdoors

• Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Different
  • Long
  • Prayer

• People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Think
  • Care

• If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Work
  • Money
  • Want

• I definitely have a real self-destructive streak.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Real
  • Definitely
  • Streak

• Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.

  

  Carl Reiner
  • Really
  • Pens
  • Comedians

• Nearly 75,000 Demand Progress members have urged Congress to fix the Patriot Act.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Progress
  • Act
  • Fix

• Adding a column of figures is a repetitive thought process, and it was long ago properly relegated to the machine. True, the machine is sometimes controlled by the keyboard, and thought of a sort enters in reading the figures and poking the corresponding keys, but even this is avoidable.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • Long
  • True
  • Reading

• The more I learned about the history of religion, the more my earlier misgivings appeared justified. The doctrines that I had accepted without question as a child were indeed man-made, constructed over a long period. Science seemed to have disposed of the Creator God, and biblical scholars had proved that Jesus had never claimed to be divine.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • God
  • Long
  • History

• All men are almost led to believe not of proof, but by attraction. This way is base, ignoble, and irrelevant; every one therefore disavows it. Each one professes to believe and even to love nothing but what he knows to be worthy of belief and love.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Believe
  • Men

• I am showing my pupils details of an immense landscape which they cannot possibly know their way around.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • God
  • May

• The individual under this kind of life, with no rights, has absolutely no power in this land. How can they even ask you for creativity? Or imagination, or courage or passion?

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Life
  • Power
  • Passion

• My band is the best band in the world, period. So, I insist on every song being better then it is on the record. So by the end of the tour, we have to be playing the song better then how it’s recorded.

  

  Ben Harper
  • World
  • Song
  • Band

• Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.

  

  Eliza Farnham
  • Time
  • Power
  • Soul

• It's such a magnificent thing to be able to love someone and expect nothing from them.

  

  Essie Davis
  • Love
  • Expect
  • Magnificent

• If anyone thought it was an appropriate position or proposition to put to me, then I'd have a good, long, hard think about it.

  

  Eddie McGuire
  • Position
  • Appropriate
  • Proposition

• I was able to convince my body that I could take it and nobody could hurt me. I might've gotten cut, stitches over my eyes. Broken nose. Broken hands. But I never really got hurt.

  

  Jake LaMotta
  • Eyes
  • Hurt
  • Broken

• If you shift your focus from yourself to others, extend your concern to others, and cultivate the thought of caring for the well being of others, then this will have the immediate effect of opening up your life and helping you to reach out.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Up
  • Focus

• I am happy and proud that during one year of presidency, my initiatives have been strongly supported by the people and society and we have launched the process of vitally important state reforms.

  

  Dalia Grybauskaite
  • Important
  • Proud
  • Process

• I was debauched in my 20s, but I was fit and healthy in my teens.

  

  Davinia Taylor