Adam Davidson Quotes

Whenever you hear news about jobless claims or the unemployment rate, you should translate that in your mind to one simple phrase: Stay in school.

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• I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Love
  • Want
  • Forever

• Sometimes when I visit schools, kids will interview me for the school newspaper. They ask me questions and my answers tend to go on and on, and they try to write down everything I'm saying as quickly as they can. And one day, a kid holds up her hand and said, 'Do you think you could just answer 'yes' or 'no?' Aren't kids wonderful?

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • World
  • Good
  • Opportunity

• Justice is revenge.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Justice
  • Revenge

• At 93, so deep in dementia that she didn't remember any details of her life, my mother somehow still knew songs.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Mother

• My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • People
  • Understand
  • Crisis

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• I've done thousands of interviews in my life, and it's a format that I quite enjoy, because I think of questions in interviews as an opportunity to sort of gauge my growth in a way. It gives me an idea of how I'm navigating this world that I'm in.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • World
  • Done

• Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Open
  • Well
  • Desperation

• The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

  

  Garrett Graff
  • Positive
  • Influence
  • Media

• Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control: it gallops where we tiptoe, rips up our routines, burns our very breath with its heat and sting.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Death

• What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • People
  • Good
  • Future

• I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Great
  • Write
  • Songs

• Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Money
  • Attention
  • Drama

• I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

  

  Gallant
  • School
  • Family
  • Remember

• I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Good
  • Science
  • Universe

• To start with, pharma was an industry based on innovation, drug discovery.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • Start
  • Innovation
  • Drug

• A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Up
  • Music
  • Game

• I happen to like dark, and I like the fact that 'Arrow' is a pretty dark show, particularly for a network show.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
  • Pretty
  • Dark

• Let's learn from our peers and then beat them at their own game.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • Game

• Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Live
  • High
  • Freedom

• As a seven-year-old, I remember when Etan Patz disappeared and was immortalized as the first missing-child face on a milk carton.

  

  Chelsea Cain
  • Remember
  • Missing

• Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever?

  

  David Markson
  • Poet
  • Encounter
  • Sexual

• Whenever you hear news about jobless claims or the unemployment rate, you should translate that in your mind to one simple phrase: Stay in school.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Mind
  • School
  • Simple