MaryJanice Davidson Quotes

I'd go to a bookstore, and I'd flip through flap copy, and I'd think, 'If this gal can get published, I can get published.'

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• Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

  

  Quintilian
  • Like
  • Dreams
  • Hopes

• I owe it all to Jesus.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Jesus
  • Owe

• My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

  

  Ovid
  • Hope
  • Always
  • Hopes

• I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Small
  • Same
  • Company

• You could go to Estonia and there's probably an episode of 'Seinfeld' playing there. Television is a very powerful thing.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • You
  • Powerful
  • Television

• Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Book
  • Hope

• I would love to do something with Coldplay.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Love
  • Something
  • Would

• What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?

  

  Ed Wood
  • You
  • Know
  • Suspension

• Education is the most powerful tool countries have for boosting economic growth, increasing prosperity, and forging more just, peaceful and equitable societies.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Education
  • Powerful
  • Growth

• Iran can never get a nuclear weapon, and it never will as long as I have anything to say about it.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Long
  • Never
  • Anything

• I do believe that people of all religions have a right to build edifices or structures or places of religious worship or study where the community allows them to do it under zoning laws and that sort of thing, and that we don't want to turn an act of hate against us by extremists into an act of intolerance for people of religious faith.

  

  Ted Olson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Faith

• I like teff, an Ethiopian grain. It's not so popular in the States yet, but it's really good, almost like a porridge. And I love sushi, but it's not always that healthy, so I don't keep it at home.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Home
  • Like
  • Popular

• Coming where I'm coming from, really, my family name isn't a pressure because, you know, music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up. Music is an expression of what's inside of you. And that's how I make music.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Up
  • Music
  • Family

• Atheism should always be encouraged (i.e. rationalistic not emotional atheism) for the sake of the Faith.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Faith
  • Emotional

• Otherwise it was quiet-that eerie, not-quite-comforting quiet one finds in small towns before dawn.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Small
  • Comforting

• The monastic man is an artist.The philosopher Appoints man’s place in music, say, today. But the priest desires. The philosopher desires.And not to have is the beginning of desire. To have what is not is its ancient cycle.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Music
  • Today
  • Desire

• I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. But I do not think my life will be long. As my uncle went, as poor Johansen went, so I shall go. I know too much, and the cult still lives.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Life
  • Long
  • Universe

• If any student comes to me and says he wants to be useful to mankind and go into research to alleviate human suffering, I advise him to go into charity instead. Research wants real egotists who seek their own pleasure and satisfaction, but find it in solving the puzzles of nature.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Real
  • Nature
  • Suffering

• To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Writer
  • Understood
  • Explain

• I think people really don't understand what a producer does versus what a director does. I mean, the producer is often the person that is on the movie the longest - it's their material that they are then bringing the director onto to bring it to the screen. Are we overlooked? Absolutely.

  

  Lauren Shuler Donner
  • People
  • Movie

• People need to understand that the Lauryn Hill they were exposed to in the beginning was all that was allowed in that arena at the time. I had to step away for the sake of the machine. I was being way too compromised. I felt uncomfortable having to smile in someone's face when I really didn't like them or know them well enough to like.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • People
  • Time
  • Beginning

• I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.

  

  Scott McClellan
  • Family
  • Political
  • Positive

• Design is not for philosophy it's for life.

  

  Issey Miyake
  • Life
  • Design
  • Philosophy

• I'd go to a bookstore, and I'd flip through flap copy, and I'd think, 'If this gal can get published, I can get published.'

  

  MaryJanice Davidson