Dai Dower Quotes

The side's all right, but my bloody knees are killing me!

Dai Dower

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • World
  • Child
  • Touring

• I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred, psychosis, cruelty. Or maybe I don't have the guts to admit that I do.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• I wasn't really taught about the value of money. I just learnt it as I grew up, but I do remember my dad telling me that it was important to always have some savings, and that stuck with me. I've always believed that putting money aside is a good thing.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Up
  • Good
  • Important

• I intentionally shoot violence to make the audience feel real pain. I have never and I will never shoot violence as if it's some kind of action video game.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Real
  • Game
  • Action

• Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Stars

• Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Frame

• I didn't grow up in one of those restrictive Christian households where you couldn't do this or that. We were brought up with a great collection of good morals and good values, but we also had fun. We'd go to church on Sunday, but then have ice cream, roller skate or play in the park afterwards.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• My life is so full of sacrifices.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Full

• I think it was 37 years that I did music.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • Music
  • Think
  • Years

• I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • People
  • World
  • High

• I'm not a screamer. I'm confrontational, but I don't think that translates into anger.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Think
  • Anger

• I think all art is, by nature, intended to motivate society for change, and the only reason change doesn't happen is because within the target population, courage is lacking.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Society

• Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might have material to study and help you create the character.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Character
  • Help
  • Think

• ...in this world, often, there is nothing to praise but no one to blame...

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • World

• So mourn'd the dame of Ephesus her love,And thus the soldier arm'd with resolutionTold his soft tale, and was a thriving wooer.

  

  Colley Cibber
  • Soldier

• We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children... Where nobody dies... In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • People
  • World
  • Men

• I think architecture has to be a gift.

  

  Jean Nouvel
  • Architecture

• Some of the greatest social reformers of our time were wealthy.

  

  Jerry Rubin
  • Time

• You see heaven isn't some place that we go to when we die. It's that split second in life where you actually feel alive, and until the end of time, we chase the memory of that, hoping the future holds something better than the past.

  

  Eyedea
  • Heaven
  • Better
  • Memory

• Back in the day for me was a great time in my life - I was in my 20s. Most people refer to their experiences in their twenties as being a highlight in their life. It's a period of time where you often develop your own way, your own sound, your own identity, and that happened with me, when I was with a great teacher - Miles Davis.

  

  Herbie Hancock
  • Teacher
  • Identity
  • Highlights

• Science fiction writers, when I was a kid, were a big deal.

  

  Andrew Sean Greer
  • Science

• The side's all right, but my bloody knees are killing me!

  

  Dai Dower