Alan Davies Quotes
There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.
Quotes to Explore
-
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
-
Fame didn't happen to me in my 20s, it has been a gradual thing which probably makes it easier to deal with.
-
You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?
-
My dad was a good athlete. My mom had longevity. There were some athletic genes that certainly got passed down.
-
I play computer games, watch TV and do what normal people do.
-
At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.
-
My go-to karaoke? 'Alone' by Celine Dion.
-
If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
-
Even all the top players going to Europe to play helps soccer in America, as do all the MLS players like Beckham and all that, they're trying to promote it. At the end of the day it's about getting the younger generation interested at an early age so most of them will move on and play.
-
I don't think it's hypothetical whether or not it's a good idea to topple secular dictators in the Middle East and hope to get a good outcome and hope that stability comes thereafter.
-
Probably the No. 1 most important thing in my music is not to sound like anyone else. It is hard in this day and age.
-
If we don't believe in moral absolutes and then we get into a cultural-political debate, how are we going to win?
-
When a man counts one, two, three, he is not only doing mathematics, he is on the path to the mysticism of numbers in Pythagoras and Vitruvius and Kepler, to the Trinity and the signs of the Zodiac.
-
The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand.
-
I like the name Atomic Kitten. It's so great.
-
I hate doubt, yet I am certain that doubt is the only way to approach anything worth believing in.
-
Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.
-
I've often thought that Obama should come out in favor of oxygen, just to see how many right-wingers keel over from holding their breath for too long.
-
I remember being 24 in Los Angeles. And up until that moment, when my mom would call my cell phone and it would ring, I would be flushed with some sort of excitement that we all have - a little dopamine rush, when my phone rings - and I'd look down, and it would say, 'Mom.' It used to feel like a job to pick that up.
-
Well, I don't really concern myself too much with what other people make of my work.
-
I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
-
There's no genetic basis for any kind of rigid ethnic or racial classification. I'm always asked is there Greek DNA or an Italian gene, but, of course, there isn't. We're very closely related.
-
There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.
