Peter Davison Quotes

Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.

Peter Davison

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• A lot of times, women complain about men around them. It's not always someone else's fault. If you're the common denominator in 57 different relationships that didn't work out, then maybe, just maybe... it's you!

  

  Karrine Steffans
  • Work
  • Men
  • Different

• That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• As murderous industrial magnates go, Alfred Nobel is right up there with Ray Kroc, franchiser of McDonald's.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Go
  • Industrial

• I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 percent as far as my income and tax bracket. But now that I'm here, there's no amount of money you can wave in front of my face that will make me understand depriving people of human rights.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Money
  • Human Rights

• My mom has always been my champion. She was very smart and grounded. She said, 'Save your money. Pay your taxes. Don't put everything in one basket,' but she let me explore and be creative.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Money
  • She
  • Mom

• They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Dream
  • Night
  • Day

• I'm surprised how hot it gets in the Moab Desert. I knew it got hot, but I didn't think it got, like, Mercury-hot.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Think
  • Desert
  • Hot

• Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Moon
  • Look
  • Walk

• Television has filled the space for actors that really want to make good work and not just make a lot of money and be famous for making a lot of money and being famous.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
  • Work
  • Money

• Many of us who have cars have felt some form of extreme anger at other drivers because we feel they have put us in harm's way. We might even envision ramming their cars or cutting them off in return, but do we actually do it? No, because the overwhelming majority of us never want to take another human life.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Life
  • Want
  • Cutting

• You can't be wrong in the three-tech position. I like that. It allows a lot of freedom.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Freedom
  • You
  • Like

• I am proud to say that I was launched in Tamil through 'Poi' by Balachander sir, who was the one who launched the legends like Rajni sir, Kamal sir & Prakash Raj sir.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Legends
  • Tamil
  • Balachander

• We were constantly appealing for funds from readers when I edited 'The Black Dwarf' in 1968-69.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Black
  • Readers
  • Appealing

• I've actually become much, much dumber through being married and having these children. I find that I'm not half as sharp that I once was. I can't even help them with their 4th and 5th grade vocabulary and math work at this point.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Work
  • Children
  • Help

• The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • World
  • Fire
  • Admire

• Sometimes, we find common ground; more often, we don't.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Sometimes
  • Find
  • Often

• I can say I'm a little scared of racing. It brings back memories, of course. But it's nothing I can't handle.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Memories
  • Scared
  • Racing

• Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Life
  • You
  • Lived

• You say my name like a lover, so soft, so sweet. I want to lick the word from your lips, sip the exhaled breath from your mouth. I want to possess you utterly. Right now. Right here.

  

  Elizabeth Hoyt
  • Sweet
  • Names
  • Lovers

• Forgiving sins, I should have known, is not blotting them out. The blood of Christ only turns them red instead of black. It leaves them in the record. It leaves them in the memory.

  

  Edward Bellamy
  • Black
  • Red

• Man seems to insist on ignoring the lessons available from history.

  

  Norman Borlaug
  • History
  • Lessons
  • Ignoring

• And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.

  

  Buddy Rich

• There's nothing like playing. You can coach and you can be around the game, but there is nothing like playing. It's just so much fun.

  

  Steve Largent
  • Game
  • Playing
  • Coach

• Frost is the most sophisticated of poets.

  

  Peter Davison