Evan Davis Quotes

Even the 'Today' programme involves a balance between the worthy-but-heavy items with the worthless-but-entertainingly-light ones.

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• Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Life
  • Die
  • Fall

• The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Interesting
  • Me
  • Player

• I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • School
  • High
  • Small

• San Francisco, coolest place ever.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Place
  • Ever
  • San Francisco

• It's a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It's amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Great
  • Amazing
  • Beauty

• I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • Work
  • Smoking
  • Thank You

• Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Wanted
  • Accident
  • Blueprint

• No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Virtue
  • Everyone

• If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Up
  • Sleep
  • Worry

• It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Time
  • Business
  • Running

• I know that I cannot be with a person for three hours without saying at least ten things that would kill me.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Know
  • Person
  • Saying

• Who is most deserving of all of the money that I, Zlatan, am paid? The answer is Zlatan.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Money
  • Answer
  • Most

• Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Important
  • History
  • Proud

• I learned a tremendous amount about dialogue because I suffered as an actor.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Actor
  • Learned
  • Because

• 'Grandmother' doesn't mean that you have gray hair and you retire and stay home cooking cakes for your grandchildren.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Home
  • Hair
  • Cooking

• What's in my mind is that I'm investing in people. It might be through a building or a program, but I'm investing in people. And the people that I'm investing in are underprivileged or hold a core value that I believe in.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • People
  • Believe
  • Mind

• I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Me
  • New
  • New York

• In a sense, each of us is an island. In another sense, however, we are all one. For though islands appear separate, and may even be situated at great distances from one another, they are only extrusions of the same planet, Earth.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • Great
  • May
  • Earth

• I wasn't completely comfortable in the footy culture because I wasn't that comfortable in my own skin, which I am now. I'd fit in better now, but I don't miss the training and the injuries you get playing footy.

  

  Vance Joy
  • Culture
  • Training
  • Comfortable

• The goal isn't just to make transactions: it's to make better decisions in the way you run your business. If that's not at the top of every executive's priorities, then they shouldn't be an executive.

  

  Aneel Bhusri
  • Business

• From the dawn of the day to the dusk he toiled, Shaping fanciful playthings, with tireless hands, - Useless trumpery toys; and, with vaulting heart, Gave them unto all peoples, who mocked at him, Trampled on them, and soiled them, and went their way.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Heart

• Every tool is a weapon - if you hold it right.

  

  Ani DiFranco

• Even the 'Today' programme involves a balance between the worthy-but-heavy items with the worthless-but-entertainingly-light ones.

  

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