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 trust myself. You need that to survive.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Myself
  • Trust
  • Need

• 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

• A movie I must have seen 10 times is 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.' It's an old movie, but still such a beautiful message. If I had only one film I could take on my computer on a desert island, I would take 'Jonathan Livingston Seagull.'

  

  Bertrand Piccard
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Desert

• The sensuality, delicacy of literature does not exist for me; only the passion, energy and struggle… Most of my friends deplore this: they are always telling me what I should leave out in order to have success. But I know that nothing has more success in the end than an intelligent ferocity.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Success
  • Energy
  • Passion

• Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Reality

• Constructions of a-rhythmical forms, the clash between concrete and abstract forms... ...The acute angle is passionate and dynamic, expressing will and a penetrating force.

  

  Carlo Carra
  • Passionate
  • Abstract
  • Construction

• 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