Peter Davison Quotes

If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

Peter Davison

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• Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Why
  • Name
  • Last

• People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Up
  • Man
  • Self

• The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Business
  • Simple

• I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.

  

  Adam Clymer
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Book

• If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Think
  • Free
  • Small

• I'm not sure what the UFC's agenda is when it comes to me. It's their show, their press. They can change to whatever they want to do at any point. They own this thing. They can do whatever they want.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • Want
  • Change
  • Show

• I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Change
  • Proud
  • Illusion

• People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.

  

  Adam Pally
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I often feel like I have this spirit living inside of me, always dressing in like short mini skirts... but then I start to discover myself. So there are eight spirits, mischievous ones, sad ones, handsome ones, wise ones, and crazy ones.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Myself
  • Crazy
  • Wise

• I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Waiting
  • Lunch
  • Coat

• For the last year I've been at Stanford University as a student and I've had time to read the newspaper.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Time
  • Year
  • Last Year

• My best jokes are so cheap. All I do is say things sarcastically.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Best
  • Things
  • Jokes

• Father of all! in every age, In every clime adored, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Father
  • Age
  • Savage

• Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth - the irrational.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Life
  • Real
  • Earth

• 'Is he then an unhappy man?' Poirot said: 'So unhappy that he has forgotten what happiness means. So unhappy that he does not know he is unhappy.' The nun said softly: 'Ah, a rich man…'

  

  Agatha Christie

• We can dream of an America, and a world, in which love and not money are civilization's bottom line.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • World
  • Money
  • Dream

• The America I do want to live in, is seeing how people respond to the victims of Hurricane Harvey. People of all races, all colors, all religions. You don't care what a person looks like, what their beliefs are - I'm helping them, because they are my fellow brother, or because they need my help. That's the America I want to live in. I don't want to live in Charlottesville, where you hate somebody because of the way that they choose to live their life. That's not a place where I want to live.

  

  Anquan Boldin
  • Live
  • America
  • Help

• I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • Year
  • Name
  • Prison

• If poets were realistic, they wouldn't be poets.

  

  Peter Davison