Craig Davidson Quotes

For some of the kids on my bus, the deviation is so small: an imperfection in the DNA strand so tiny that an electron microscope cranked to 100,000X magnification shows but a shadow. A knot of rogue atoms. Weightless. A body forms itself around that anomaly, and next comes a life, and the lives of that person's family.

Craig Davidson

• Kids
• Imperfection
• Bus
• DNA
• Anomaly

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• If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.

  

  Harold Nicholas
  • Real
  • Black
  • Change

• I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • May
  • Winning

• I really enjoy dancing. When there's music around, I can't help it; I start dancing, especially when I'm with friends.

  

  Cameron Monaghan
  • Music
  • Friends
  • Help

• Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.

  

  Ian McKeever
  • Die
  • Learn
  • Everyone

• I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Focus
  • Look
  • Looking Forward

• Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Important
  • Trees
  • Ecosystem

• The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • People
  • Community
  • Couple

• I am just your everyday, average girl. I live by the beach. I wear flip flops. I don't wear make-up. I go to the gym.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • Live
  • Girl
  • Beach

• I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.

  

  J. Cole
  • Music
  • Small
  • City

• Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Way

• I started in theater. I would liken sitcom work more to theater work than I would, perhaps, to dramatic television. It's so quick. It kind of feels like the pace of a play.

  

  James Wolk
  • Work

• I am an organization freak!

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Organization

• The Internet is a bright spot for our struggling economy and functioning just fine without what amounts to a federal pat-down of the inner workings of the Internet.

  

  Mary Bono

• I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. And when I started to experiment with genres, it didn't sound forced. Maybe that's because it's all music that I listened to growing up, and it's all music that I love.

  

  Avicii
  • Up
  • Music
  • Done

• The meanings of words and the uses of words come from practice from the way people in a given culture use those words.

  

  Deborah Tannen
  • People
  • Culture
  • Words

• One way to ensure that all kids will be successful in school and life is by focusing on literacy by the end of the third grade.

  

  Doug Ducey
  • Life
  • School
  • Kids

• Catchy lyrics are being given more importance.

  

  Armaan Malik
  • Lyrics

• If watching your child die is a parent's worst nightmare, imagine having to tell your other child that his sister is dead... Although I am certain that he cried, that we all cried, what I remember more is how we collapsed into each other, as if the weight of our loss literally crushed us.

  

  Ann Hood
  • Remember
  • Die
  • Sister

• The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Up
  • Great
  • Business

• When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.

  

  Ram Dass
  • You
  • Take
  • Bus

• We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.

  

  Frances E. Willard
  • Children
  • Past
  • Progress

• A lot of cops in fiction are very depressive and are kind of downbeat, and they've got all kinds of existential angst that they're dealing with.

  

  John Sandford

• For some of the kids on my bus, the deviation is so small: an imperfection in the DNA strand so tiny that an electron microscope cranked to 100,000X magnification shows but a shadow. A knot of rogue atoms. Weightless. A body forms itself around that anomaly, and next comes a life, and the lives of that person's family.

  

  Craig Davidson
  • Kids
  • Imperfection
  • Bus