Barry Davies Quotes

The Dutch look like a huge jar of marmalade.

Barry Davies

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• I have blood from Dutch and Norwegian.

  

  Tadanobu Asano
  • Blood
  • Dutch
  • Norwegian

• The Dutch are a very practical people.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • People
  • Practical
  • Dutch

• Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open.

  

  Billie Jean King
  • People
  • She
  • Crazy

• I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Proud
  • Firsts
  • Mumbai

• The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Today
  • Success
  • Past

• New and stirring things are belittled because if they are not belittled the humiliating question arises 'Why then are you not taking part in them?

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Why
  • Question

• Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • English
  • Speak
  • Dutch

• We covered 'Hey Jude.' My father panicked, misunderstanding the lyrics and thinking our lead singer was belting out 'Hey, Jew' to a roomful of Holocaust survivors.

  

  Ben Stiller
  • Thinking
  • Father
  • Lyrics

• When I was at college, I worked in a department store called Brit Home Stores, which is a pretty lackluster department store, selling clothes for middle-aged women. My job was to walk the floor and find anything that was damaged, take it to the store room and log it.

  

  Dominic Monaghan
  • Women
  • Home
  • Job

• Now, with all my world titles, I am very happy because I can say to all those people that what I chose to do was good for me.

  

  Pauline Ferrand-Prevot
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I only ask to go where the Lord would have me go, and only to receive what the Lord would have me receive, knowing that more important than sight is the witness that one may have by the witness of the Holy Ghost to his soul that things are so and that Jesus is the Christ, a living personage. Harold B. Lee

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Important
  • May
  • Soul

• Wearied then and glad of rest, Like the linnet in the nest.

  

  Ambrose Philips
  • Rest
  • Nest
  • Linnet

• I don't believe in expending energy on something you can't do anything about. If there was some easy way of fixing things, I'd probably do it.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Believe
  • Energy
  • Easy

• We need writers who know the difference between the production of a commodity and the practice of an art.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Art
  • Practice
  • Differences

• Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success, let alone satisfaction.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Emotional
  • Creativity
  • Logic

• If I don't have anything better to do that day, I'll copy paintings, generally by people who have some relationship to the work of the moment.

  

  Wayne Thiebaud
  • People
  • Work
  • Relationship

• When there's no experimenting there's no progress. Stop experimenting and you go backward. If anything goes wrong, experiment until you get to the very bottom of the trouble.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Progress
  • Experimenting

• The Dutch look like a huge jar of marmalade.

  

  Barry Davies
  • Dutch
  • Jar
  • Marmalade