MaryJanice Davidson Quotes

I love traveling, but I love the bum I married, and the bums I gave birth to, more. And the dogs. I love them, too.

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• Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Life
  • Real
  • Think

• Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Eighth

• The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.

  

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  • Knowledge
  • Beauty
  • Memory

• I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Remember
  • Comedy
  • Doing

• The world is being run by irresponsible spoiled brats.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Run
  • Spoiled

• A deal is like chasing a girl. You work on it until she says, 'Yes,' for a date.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Work
  • She
  • Girl

• I'm fascinated with worlds where there's a small population left, whether it's a movie or these TV shows that fascinate me - 'Falling Skies' or 'The Walking Dead' - they are about survival and triumphing over difficult times. I just have a thing for 'em.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Movie
  • Small
  • Walking

• One is actually the democracy here, you know, people are, people assume that this election means that there is democracy in Pakistan. There is no democracy.

  

  Imran Khan
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Election

• Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and wonder how I do these things. I can embarrass myself so badly that I literally get a hot prickle down the back of my neck.

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Up
  • Night
  • Myself

• 'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Live
  • Nature

• My son makes me want to be better so that I can be there for him.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Me
  • Son
  • Better

• To be whole is to be part;true voyage is return.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • True

• What is required is self-belief, most importantly. And secondly, you should be ready to listen, to be strong to acknowledge what your weakness is, and learn, improve... If you have that, then all this that you are talking about, fielding, running between wickets, they are all minor things...

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Strong
  • Running

• He who is certain he knows the ending of things when he is only beginning them is either extremely wise or extremely foolish; no matter which is true, he is certainly an unhappy man, for he has put a knife in the heart of wonder.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Heart
  • True
  • Beginning

• We've never had problems. We love each other, understand each other, and get past anything.

  

  Meg White The White Stripes
  • Past

• Power is so pleasant that men quickly learn to be greedy in the enjoyment of it, and to flatter themselves that patriotism requires them to be imperious.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Men
  • Power

• It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Heart

• But do you know what struck me, apart from Nancy’s vibrant self-pity, which she had the nerve to pretend was grief?

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • She
  • Grief

• America is the greatest, freest, and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This country, once an experiment unique in the world, is now the last best hope for the world.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • World
  • Country
  • America

• Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

  

  Edward Dahlberg

• In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Dream
  • Reality
  • Humanity

• Call school, tell them I'm lovesick.

  

  Ellen Schreiber
  • School
  • Lovesick

• I love traveling, but I love the bum I married, and the bums I gave birth to, more. And the dogs. I love them, too.

  

  MaryJanice Davidson