Robertson Davies Quotes

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Robertson Davies

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: canadian
  • Birth: August 28, 1913 - December 2, 1995

Topics

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Thank you... 'Real Housewives of Atlanta,' for demonstrating a universal truth: Idiots like me will always watch idiots like you fight on TV. You will forever be in my TiVo.

Jimmy Fallon

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People complain that chefs aren't at their restaurants anymore, but I don't think that's the case at all. You see them on TV and you assume they're not working but they are.

Michael Symon

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The teapot takes in water and gives out tea. So the human individual takes in anything you give him and promptly transforms it; he is ready to give you out again his own reactions - first, in thought and emotion, then in voice or action.

Louis MacNeice

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The future is hidden by a dark impenetrable veil, and yet we struggle to pierce through it.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

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At one point, some years ago, a nice gentleman had it in mind to do 'Outlander' the musical. His idea was to start with a CD of what you call a song cycle, with a dozen high points of the projected show. It turned out very well, though we had to stop doing it when the TV show came along.

Diana Gabaldon

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When 'Titanic' came out on VHS, I was working at a Sam's Club, which is already the worst. I don't know what you know about working for the Walton family, but it's horrific.

Chris Cubas

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Poetry offers works of art that are beautiful, like paintings, which are my second favorite work of the art, but there are also works of art that embody emotion and that are kind of school for feeling. They teach how to feel, and they do this by the means of their beauty of language.

Donald Hall

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If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.

Chuck Palahniuk

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Always, if you win prizes and are successful, of course expectations are higher, at Bayern especially.

Arjen Robben

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You have to fill your cup. You then give away the overflowing, but you keep a cupful for yourself.

Wynonna Judd

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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

William Wordsworth

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Risk and failure is a part of our equation, and if you are seeing too little failure, you are actually probably not taking enough risks.

Peter Barris

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