Willie Davis Quotes

He really fought the odds. They took away football, but he still did four years of college and will graduate.

Willie Davis

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• I think music needs danger; it needs risk.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Music
  • Think
  • Risk

• One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.

  

  Tablo
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• You keep learning all the time.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Time
  • You
  • Learning

• I've been with some of the most quote-unquote beautiful women in the world. But they're so ugly on the inside.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • World
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Think
  • Civilization

• Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Grateful

• I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!

  

  Carla Hall
  • People
  • Age
  • Sorry

• The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Way
  • Flowers
  • Bee

• Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Been
  • Twitter
  • Travelling

• I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Fall

• If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Book
  • Care
  • Survival

• I know that in my own mind, I struggle with a desire to be both entirely absent and entirely present in any given moment.

  

  K. Flay
  • Mind
  • Desire
  • Present

• Theories are only verified hypotheses, verified by more or less numerous facts. Those verified by the most facts are the best, but even then they are never final, never to be absolutely believed.

  

  Claude Bernard

• 'I want to know what it says,' he answered, looking steadily in her face. 'The sea Floy, what is it that it keeps on saying?'

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Sea

• I grew up in North Yorkshire, but now London is home.

  

  James Norton
  • Up
  • Home

• I think the most important thing for an artist is to stay true to who you are. I want to stay as authentic as possible, as that's how we're going with our team.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Important
  • True
  • Team

• If you're a photographer, you end up being the raw creative force that allows other people to see what kind of narrative you want to be giving or what kind of art that you want people to see.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • People
  • Up
  • Art

• I'm addicted to 'Lonely Planet' guides. Naturally, I'll buy one whenever I take a trip somewhere, but it goes beyond that: I've begun buying them for cities and countries I just hope to visit one day.

  

  Lauren Weisberger
  • Hope
  • Lonely

• You never want to be the grumpy guy, although I do have quite a grumpy face.

  

  Jimmy Carr
  • Guy

• I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• I went overseas hoping to prove that all our POWs were home. I came back convinced that they were still alive.

  

  Bo Gritz
  • Home

• It's just so much more fun to play bad than good. Plus it's just good to get that out of your system so it doesn't show up in your personal life.

  

  Chris Zylka
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• He really fought the odds. They took away football, but he still did four years of college and will graduate.

  

  Willie Davis
  • College
  • Football
  • Odds