Nicholas Davies (Nick Davies) Quotes

It is an odd thing about newspapers that they live by exposure, yet they keep their own worlds concealed.

Nicholas Davies

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• Concealed

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• I wish I had as much in bed as I get in the newspapers.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Wish
  • Bed
  • Newspapers

• There are so many different themes and characters and worlds within the movie, ... Lo and behold, we find that the editing of all those little strains in a movie can be really difficult. I didn't want to start cutting out characters wholesale and savaging the many different performances. Over time, showing the movie became the only way to figure out how it was all rhythmically working.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Time
  • Different
  • Character

• The solution may be for a lot of the world's problems is to turn around and take a forward step. You can't just keep trying to make a flawed system work.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • World
  • Work
  • Trying

• I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • People
  • Nervous
  • Newspapers

• 90% of the world's data was created in the last two years.

  

  Marc Benioff
  • World
  • Years
  • Worlds

• I run a couple of newspapers. What do you do?

  

  Harry Edward Kane
  • Running
  • Couple
  • Newspapers

• A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Time
  • World
  • Men

• You gotta be able to change worlds.

  

  Courtney Love
  • Change
  • Worlds

• With Maynard and Gilligan, I had the best of both worlds.

  

  Bob Denver
  • Worlds
  • Maynard
  • Gilligan

• On those nights, the words were for me alone. They came up unbidden from my heart. They spilled over my tongue and spilled out my mouth. And because of them, I, who was nothing and nobody, was a prince of Denmark, a maid of Verona, a queen of Egypt. I was a sour misanthrope, a beetling hypocrite, a conjurer's daughter, a mad and murderous king.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Alone
  • Worlds
  • Nights

• For all uniting of strength by private men, is, if for evil intent, unjust; if for intent unknown, dangerous to the Publique, and unjustly concealed.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Dangerous
  • Concealed
  • Private Men

• Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Devil
  • Questions
  • Letters

• Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.

  

  William Randolph Hearst
  • Girl
  • Dark
  • Newspapers

• There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them.

  

  Queen Christina
  • Star
  • Souls
  • Worlds

• I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Property
  • Worlds

• I think a lot of newspapers have lost touch with that sense of community, which so impressed me as a teenager when I had to knock on people's doors.

  

  Harold Evans
  • Community
  • Sense
  • Newspapers

• There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one.

  

  Alexander the Great
  • Worlds
  • Conquered

• Lead us, Heavenly Father, lead us O'er the world's tempestuous sea; Guard us, guide us, keep us, feed us, For we have no help but Thee.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Sea
  • Worlds
  • Tempestuous

• Love is not of value when this superficial contract must be drawn up, representing the two worlds that enclose us.

  

  Coco J. Ginger
  • Love
  • Value
  • Worlds

• Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

  

  Russell Baker
  • People
  • Fun
  • Lost

• Official brutality, which characterizes boot camps in America, is inhuman and does not work.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Work
  • America
  • Brutality

• Divide in yourself the mechanical from the conscious, see how little there is of the conscious, how seldom it works, and how strong is the mechanical - mechanical attitudes, mechanical intentions, mechanical thoughts, mechanical desires.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Strong
  • Spiritual
  • Thoughts

• They took a survey: Why do men get up in the middle of the night? Ten percent get up to go to the bathroom and 90 percent get up to go home.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Up
  • Men
  • Why

• It is an odd thing about newspapers that they live by exposure, yet they keep their own worlds concealed.

  

  Nicholas Davies
  • Newspapers
  • Worlds
  • Concealed