Edward Davey Quotes
We've already seen in the Windrush scandal how the Conservatives' hostile environment checks can destroy the lives of people who have every right to be in the UK. The government's chaotic approach to Brexit risks a repeat of that scandal for EU citizens.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
-
When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.
-
I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.
-
Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
-
For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.
-
Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
-
I don't believe in murder.
-
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
-
I would never wear anything too revealing. I'm not a fan of dresses where you look nude... I think that looks a bit desperate.
-
Scientists are not movie stars or politicians who will feel insulted if they are not showered with accolades. Scientists are not interested in accolades.
-
I thought that I could have a career in music. I really didn't know exactly what I wanted to do or how I would go about doing it.
-
I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
-
The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.
-
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless.
-
'I think that the idea of straight edge, the song that I wrote, and the way people have related it it, there's some people who have abused it, they've allowed their fundamentalism to interfere with the real message, which in my mind, was that people should be allowed to live their lives the way they want to.' 4
-
My favourite roller coaster is the Millennium Force at Cedar Point in Ohio.
-
I love what I do. That's one of the reasons I've stayed. I love the community; I love driving to work.
-
There is no one who is more conflicted in the Marvel Universe, in my opinion, than Matthew Murdock. Is he his father's son, or is he the son of his father? Is he someone who is going to solve the world's problems in a court room, or is he someone who is going to solve the world's problems with his fist?
-
India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.
-
If the work is good, what does it matter? I'm doing it because I love it. Why not do as many things I love as I can? As long as the work is good.
-
Music is pretty much in my blood and it's definitely in my environment.
-
We've already seen in the Windrush scandal how the Conservatives' hostile environment checks can destroy the lives of people who have every right to be in the UK. The government's chaotic approach to Brexit risks a repeat of that scandal for EU citizens.
