Davy Jones Quotes

You know I used to be a heartthrob, and now I'm a coronary.

Davy Jones The Monkees

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• When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there's Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Done
  • Nice
  • New York

• You just have to take control of your own performance.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • You
  • Control
  • Performance

• I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• I was born in India - but never really lived there.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Never
  • Born
  • India

• I spend most of my time thinking about things like laundry and buying stationery supplies.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Laundry

• We've got to be proactive. It's my job to look for unconventional situations that achieve what my clients want.

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Job
  • Want
  • Achieve

• Once Clinton won, I started picking on him.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Him
  • Started
  • Once

• I know dozens of authors who have had a lot of books published by New York, and they won't ever take another Big 6 contract since they've gotten a taste of the freedom, control, and money self-publishing offers.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Money
  • Freedom
  • Control

• Heckles always vary. I mean, some people are just drunk, and it's nonsense, or, you know, some people just want to just repeat something I've said or add their own two cents about an opinion, but because of the nature of what I do and who I am, like, I also get the racist stuff, which is hard.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • People
  • Nature
  • Opinion

• We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Time
  • Believe

• Die Philosophen haben die Welt nur verschieden interpretirt; es kommt aber darauf an, sie zu verändern.1

  

  Karl Marx
  • Die

• Men remain in their present low and primitive condition; but if they should feel the influence of the spring of springs arousing them, they would of necessity rise to a higher and more ethereal life.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Life
  • Men
  • Present

• If the 19th century was the century of the individual (liberalism means individualism), you may consider that this is the 'collective' century, and therefore the century of the state.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • May

• Painting, literature, music, are more closely allied than the public usually admit. They are merely different means of expression.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Music
  • Different
  • Painting

• One had better not rush, otherwise dung comes out rather than creative work.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Work

• I never chose money, I always chose people. I wanted to be around people who knew more than I did. I think that’s why I never fell in love with an actor. They never seemed to know any more than I did. I wanted to be with writers… My idea of a dream man was Thornton Wilder.

  

  Lillian Gish
  • People
  • Money
  • Why

• I am a pile of reworked flaws weaved into a semi-functioning man.

  

  Kurt Sutter

• There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.

  

  Buddy Rich

• That last phrase, the elegant jump from malicious gossip to compliment, seemed to me so very successful that I thought of adult normality precisely as an art of that type. I had something to learn.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Learn
  • Jump
  • Gossip

• With a profound first-hand knowledge of participants, encompassing linguistic competence, and engaging prose, Padraic Kenney recreates the simultaneously serious and playful currents of East Europe's overthrow of repressive state socialism. What an invaluable guide to the elusive exhilaration that motivated the actors and captivated all of us who followed the transformation with such hope! We can appreciate neither the ebullience of 1989 nor the disappointment with the quotidian reality that followed without understanding Kenney's 'carnival.'

  

  Charles S. Maier
  • Reality
  • Profound
  • Appreciate

• There are moments when you love babies, and you're like, "God, they are the reason why we exist." Then they start crying, and you're like "God! Jesus!"

  

  Zac Efron
  • God
  • Why
  • Moments

• Let hundreds like me perish, but let truth triumph.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Triumph
  • Perish

• Every day I am on this Earth, I will do all I can for so many important causes.

  

  Stewart Rahr
  • Important
  • Everyday
  • Causes

• You know I used to be a heartthrob, and now I'm a coronary.

  

  Davy Jones The Monkees