Artur Davis Quotes

The Democrats' ads convince me that Governor Romney can't sing, but his record convinces me he knows how to lead, and I think you know which skill we need more.

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• Everything can be satirized.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Everything

• There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountains. And I was like... 'There's mountains? Snowcap mountains?' That's insane; I've been there for thirteen years, and I've never seen that view before, seeing the mountains in the distance.

  

  A. J. Buckley
  • Morning
  • Distance
  • View

• There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Time
  • Work
  • Home

• When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• Often when I feel I am reaching a saturation point in my performances, I think of coming back to NSD and attending workshops.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Performances
  • Saturation
  • Workshops

• From the happy-go-lucky days of oil exploration and drilling, when a lot of easy sources were being found and easily managed, we're gotten ourselves into this sort of apocalyptic time. We're willing to destroy almost everything, risk almost anything, and go ahead with techniques for which we have no way of responding to the known problems.

  

  Carl Safina
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Risk

• In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Dumb
  • Get

• I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Work
  • Never
  • Thought

• When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Up
  • Country
  • Growing

• Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up.

  

  Malcolm Campbell
  • Up
  • Change
  • Will

• Surviving is the only glory in war.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • War
  • Glory
  • Surviving

• My job is not to make people happy; it's to tell the truth as I see it.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • People
  • Job
  • Truth

• The biggest trade that Germany and Britain had was with each other, in the prewar period; I think I'm right in that. Two highly industrialized nations had the most trade with each other, and it wasn't tariff policies alone that made trade relations better for both of them.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • Think
  • Alone
  • Period

• Yoga is an art and science of living.

  

  Indra Devi
  • Art
  • Science
  • Yoga

• By the 1970s, the American woman was being called ‘liberated’ or ‘superwoman’ while the American man was being called ‘baby killer’ if he fought in Vietnam, ‘traitor’ if he protested, or ‘apathetic’ if he did neither. Even men who came home paraplegics were literally spit on.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Home
  • American

• Now I wonder who is gonna be president: Tweedle Dumb, or Tweedle Dumber-And who is gonna have the big block buster box office this summer.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Wonder
  • Summer
  • Dumb

• I kept trying to stress that - 'Hang on, we're be-bop guys, we're down in the alley on 57th Street. We're not in there with John Reed and 'Ten Days That Shook the World.' We'd be in the alley with (Charlie) Parker shooting up junk. That's where we were at really.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Up
  • World
  • Trying

• I cannot help hoping that many will feel themselves obliged to buy it. I shall not mind imagining it a disagreeable duty to them, so as they do it.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Mind
  • Help

• I live in this apartment building, and everybody who lives there thinks of me as a housewife. People drop their babies off with me. Or I get notes: 'I'm going to be gone for three days. The keys are under the mat; take care of the cats.' Because they all think I'm home all the time.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book 'means' thereafter, perforce, - both grammatically and actually, - whatever meaning this or that reader gets out of it.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Book
  • Author

• My perspective is a lil different 'cus im from Manhattan .

  

  Mohandas Dewese
  • Different
  • Perspective

• It's a little strange when part of your family is in the public eye, and you're being put into a box that you're not necessarily in. That's when it starts to feel a bit odd: When you're being told who you are, but it's incorrect.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Family
  • Eye
  • Strange

• I think I'd like to do a big movie with a strong female lead, whether or not she would be a superhero. I'm more interested in characters like Scarlett Johansson in 'Lucy.' I'm less interested in people with superpowers because I can't identify with them.

  

  Neil Marshall
  • People
  • She
  • Movie

• The Democrats' ads convince me that Governor Romney can't sing, but his record convinces me he knows how to lead, and I think you know which skill we need more.

  

  Artur Davis