Ray Davies Quotes

I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.

Ray Davies The Kinks

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• Nobody wants to be against technology, but I think that regulators should not - and people should not - assume that faster is always better in markets. We need to question technology to insure that markets continue to perform their fundamental purposes.

  

  Bart Chilton
  • People
  • Question
  • Technology

• It was always fun to skate with Paul Wylie and Paul Martini.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Fun
  • Always
  • Martini

• Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Work
  • Want
  • Influence

• Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Like
  • Books
  • Pool

• The planet doesn't require saving, and actually hasn't asked Greenpeace to save it.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Planet
  • Save
  • Actually

• Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Music
  • Me
  • Meditation

• I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish – there was a bit of nobility about her.

  

  Sally Field
  • Wanted
  • Her
  • Bit

• My alignment is with what I perceive as just and fair. If it's with the Muslims, then I'm with the Muslims, if it's with the West then I'm with the West. It's about justice and fairness.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Justice
  • Fair
  • Fairness

• If you don't have the money management skills yet, using a debit card will ensure you don't overspend and rack up debt on a credit card.

  

  T. Harv Eker
  • Up
  • Money
  • Management

• We lived in a flat that you could pretty much fit in my current kitchen. No wonder people drink! I can't understand why they don't throw themselves off the balconies.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Why
  • Pretty

• I put out a call on Twitter and Facebook and email for women to tell me their stories about their abortions. And many women said, 'I told my boyfriend I was pregnant, and that was the last I ever heard of them.'

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Women
  • Me
  • Said

• I drive a 1965 Shelby Cobra. I love classic muscle cars.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Love
  • Drive
  • Classic

• Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Why
  • Others
  • Brainy

• There is an incompatibility between being glamorous, young and a woman and using my brain. The official version is there is no discrimination, and talent dominates, but that is not the case.

  

  Maiwenn
  • Brain
  • Woman
  • Talent

• Therefore reinforcing a stereotype, therefore thinking that the entire Indian culture is just made of people that are against their children's decisions.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• 'I want to say it again, and again, and again: Islam is not a religion, it's a political system meant on - bent on world domination, not a religion. It masquerades as a religion, but the religion covers a worldwide attempt to exercise power and to subjugate the world into their way of thinking.' 10

  

  Pat Robertson
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Power

• Our Yes towards life from the very beginning carries within it the Divine No which breaks forth from the antithesis and points away from what now was the thesis to the original and final synthesis. The No is not the last and highest truth, but the call from home which comes in answer to our asking for God in the world.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• We only have problems we really want to have.

  

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

• People have made comments, calling me names like 'midnight' or 'mother of stars.' At first I confronted the bullies, but eventually I learned to tune out the negativity and just love myself more.

  

  Khoudia Diop
  • People
  • Mother
  • Negativity

• It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.

  

  Lucy Powell
  • Political
  • Proud
  • Achievement

• So what we can answer as geneticists is questions about biology, about biological ancestry. But to make any sense of that historically we have to contextualize it - the archaeology, the linguistic pattern, even the climatology.

  

  Spencer Wells
  • Answers
  • Patterns
  • Biology

• For 8 years now I've been addicted to cold turkey. When I tell people I'm quitting cold turkey, they say,'What are you quitting?', I'm fucking quitting cold turkey.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Cold

• I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.

  

  Ray Davies The Kinks