Geoff Davis Quotes

What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.

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• I don't carry myself as a black person but as a woman that belongs to everybody. After all, it's the general public that made me - not any one particular group. So I don't think of myself as belonging to any particular group and never have.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Black
  • Myself
  • Woman

• Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Audience

• I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Music
  • Attention

• I like to work out. I work out hard when I get to it, but it's so sporadic, I'm not sure it counts at all! I eat pretty much anything, but I eat high-quality food. There was never a packet of chips or box of candy in my house when I was growing up. Ever.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Up
  • Work
  • High

• There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Years
  • Questions
  • Ask

• Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • People
  • Believe
  • Society

• Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Vision
  • Only
  • Surrealism

• I lost a girlfriend when I was in my 30s. She was 46. It all sounds so trite, but I put a Post-it on my dressing-room wall. It said, 'The past is history. The future is a mystery. This moment is a gift, which is why it's called the present.'

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Why
  • She
  • History

• I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life.

  

  Pamela Sue Martin
  • Life
  • Worry
  • Fame

• Public policy in the twentieth century was about protecting and expanding the social compact, based on recognition that effective government at the federal level provides rules and services and safety measures that contribute to a better society.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Society
  • Government
  • Safety

• I know what it's like to have a family and not have insurance and really need it. As a comic, insurance was one of those sacrifices I made early on until I could afford it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Family
  • Know
  • Insurance

• You don't start shooting rockets at Israel and expect that we'll just sit back supinely and die.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • You
  • Die
  • Start

• The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Live
  • Nature
  • City

• Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
  • You
  • Somebody
  • Introduce

• I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system - I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • School
  • Science
  • Powerful

• That stupid fucking kid! That stupid fucking kid! Look what he's done to me!

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Done
  • Stupid

• Verily wondered what the man could have the audacity to say, in the face of such evidence-what whining, sniveling complaint or protest he might utter.

  

  Orson Scott Card

• 'Here you see the pattern from which my great work is derived. It expresses the symbolic significance of NULLITY to which TOTALITY must necessarily attach itself, by Kratinjae's Second Law of Cryptorrhoid Affinities, with which you are possibly familiar.' <br.> 'Not in every aspect,' said Cugel.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Work
  • Great
  • Law

• I don't think I'm ever going to get to the point where people run across a freeway to take a picture of me. I really don't see it getting to that level of hysteria unless I have an affair with the Queen of Sweden or something like that.

  

  James McAvoy
  • People
  • Picture

• Looking back, I don't feel that I was the most brilliant mother. I was always very good at giving my children the right food, but it was one of my regrets in life that I didn't spend more time listening to them or playing with them.

  

  Mary Berry
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Everyone wants the same thing in this band, so we definitely respect each other. I mean, all of us have had hit songs, so it's a band full of people who really know what they're talking about, so you have to respect that even when you think something you have might be great, and they go, 'Man, it's not as great as you think it is.'

  

  Matthew Ramsey Old Dominion
  • People
  • Great
  • Respect

• I believe that the use of noise to make music will continue and increase until we reach a music produced through the use of electrical instruments which will make available for musical purposes any and all sounds that can be heard. Photoelectric, film and mechanical mediums for the synthetic production of music will be explored.

  

  John Cage
  • Music
  • Believe

• When I was a kid, my parents encouraged me to take many different classes. Piano was one that I really fell in love with.

  

  Noel Fisher
  • Kid
  • Piano
  • Classes

• What I want to do is create more taxpayers, not more taxes.

  

  Geoff Davis