Essie Davis Quotes

I often get mistaken for all different kinds of ages; some of them flattering, some of them not.

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• Family life is tough, I'll say that for it. But in my case, I've mined the family. In a sense, I've used it. I've used what happened - the different events, the births of children, birthdays. Connecting, not connecting. Regret, shame, guilt. I mean, they're all in the songs. And love, too, I hasten to add.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
  • Life
  • Different
  • Children

• I don't even like parties.

  

  Doris Day
  • Like
  • Parties

• When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

  

  Mackenzie King
  • Politics
  • Sea
  • Sailing

• There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

  

  Louis Sachar
  • Green
  • Lake
  • Holes

• I think what grows the economy is when you get that tax credit that we put in place for your kids going to college. I think that grows the economy. I think what grows the economy is when we make sure small businesses are getting a tax credit for hiring veterans who fought for our country. That grows our economy.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Kids

• My definition of evil is unfriendliness.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Evil
  • Definition
  • Unfriendliness

• The whole life of the philosopher is a preparation for death.

  

  Plato
  • Life
  • Death
  • Philosopher

• As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Human being
  • Melancholy
  • Features

• There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Way
  • Spinning
  • Villages

• I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Imagine
  • Labor
  • Identify

• There is no excuse for it; it has to stop.

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Stop
  • Excuse

• A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.

  

  William Congreve
  • Beauty
  • Wit
  • Arguing

• Your soul is the whole world.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • World
  • Soul

• Fame is a fickle food Upon a shifting plate, Whose table once a Guest, but not The second time, is set. Whose crumbs the crows inspect, And with ironic caw Flap past it to the Farmer's corn; Men eat of it and die.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Die
  • Fame
  • Guest

• People elect me to make sure the chief of police is the right chief of police. They elect me to make sure I have the right person running the airport.

  

  Eric Garcetti
  • People
  • Police
  • Airport

• His performance in the Rose Bowl was one for the ages. I'm glad I saw it in person and glad I have it on tape.

  

  Dan Fouts
  • Performance
  • Ages
  • Rose Bowl

• If any man think it a small matter, or of mean concernment, to bridle his tongue, he is much mistaken; for it is a point to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.

  

  Plutarch
  • Tongue
  • Mistaken
  • Concernment

• I've always tried to be funny, or stupid, or whatever. I love making people laugh and I think it comes quite naturally to me.

  

  Brian Thomas Littrell The Backstreet Boys
  • People
  • Stupid
  • I Love

• I often get mistaken for all different kinds of ages; some of them flattering, some of them not.

  

  Essie Davis
  • Mistaken
  • Ages
  • Flattering