Joe Davis Quotes

One thing I learned about riding is to look for trouble before it happens.

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• For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Movie
  • High
  • Earth

• There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Different
  • Choose
  • Lots

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• War is something Arafat sends others to do for him. That is, the poor souls who believe in him. This pompous incompetent caused the failure of the Camp David negotiations, Clinton's mediation.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Believe
  • War
  • Failure

• To my real estate agent, Chernobyl is a fixer-upper.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Real
  • Agent
  • Real estate

• I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • People
  • Good
  • Learn

• Top knots are the easiest thing to create.

  

  Zendaya
  • Create
  • Top
  • Knots

• It's hard enough condensing 500 pages into a movie, and it would have been impossible to condense 800.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Movie
  • Enough
  • Impossible

• Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Very
  • Throw

• In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Space
  • Like
  • Film

• I always have the feeling in these low states that something good is about to happen. That's when I feel the fullest, the rawest, the closest to myself.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• I always listen to all kinds of different music from different years. I listen to the contemporary, but once in a while into eighties, you know just for fun, and sometimes classical too. So I have this big mix on my i-pod... Amy Winehouse, Gwen Stefani, OutKast, Jay-Z. I listen to trance, pop, everything. It really depends on my mood.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Music
  • Different
  • Fun

• In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Time
  • Work
  • She

• Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Loved
  • Read
  • Feared

• People want to be friends with someone who likes to have a good time.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Long
  • Want
  • Baseball

• All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Experience
  • Future
  • Earth

• As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • Best
  • Writer
  • Mindset

• When I was a kid, I had two nightmares: one was nuclear war, and the other was that my parents would get a divorce; and when I was twenty, they split up, and I just felt like I needed to confront all those things that scared me as a kid - entering young adulthood and trying to have relationships.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • Up
  • Trying
  • War

• The music industry is a world of smoke and mirrors: they tell you exactly what they think you want to hear. And they are bare-faced lying. I tend to stay away from that.

  

  Kelis Rogers
  • World
  • Music

• Music, in its true essence, has got no language. You don't listen to anybody because he is black or white or because he belongs to a particular geographical region. You listen to him because you like what he does.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Music
  • True
  • Black

• It isn't often that Aunt Dahlia, lets her angry passions rise, but when she does, strong men climb trees and pull them up after them.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Men
  • She

• As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles.

  

  George Washington
  • Firsts
  • Situation
  • Principles

• One thing I learned about riding is to look for trouble before it happens.

  

  Joe Davis