Quotes
Quotes - Davis
Come in the evening, or come in the morning;
Come when you're looked for, or come without warning.
The starlight of heaven above us shall quiver
As our souls flow in one down eternity's river.
Never be haughty to the humble; never be humble to the haughty.
The road to success runs uphill.
I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.
Progressive art can assist people to learn not only about the objective forces at work in the society in which they live, but also about the intensely social character of their interior lives. Ultimately, it can propel people toward social emancipation.
Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
To be born free is an accident; To live free a responsibility; To die free is an obligation.
Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
It has been my experience that one cannot, in any shape or form, depend on human relations for lasting reward. It is only work that truly satisfies.
Applause, mingled with boos and hisses, is about all that the average voter is able or willing to contribute to public life.
Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love, there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.
All we ask is to be let alone.
Don't play what's there, play what's not there.
The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.
. . . congenital killers and criminals are possessed of not one but two Y chromosomes, bearing a double dose, as it were, of genetically undesirable maleness.
The most wasteful "brain drain" in America today is the drain in the kitchen sink.
The law is above the law, you know.
It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not.
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
One of the endlessly alluring aspects of mathematics is that its thorniest paradoxes have a way of blooming into beautiful theories.
