Robertson Davies Quotes

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.

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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Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars.

Jim James

PowerTogetherWillHumanOutStill

Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken.

Jehane Noujaim

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For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.

John Drinkwater

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The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Stephen King

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It sounds kind of cliche, and a lot of people say it about our music, but I think a good place to hear our music for the first time is on vacation, or somewhere warm, on the beach or something like that.

St. Lucia

GoodMusicTimeBeachVacationWarm

Not everybody goes to government to serve themselves and not their country.

Ruben Blades

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Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

Mary Daly

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I think a good story's a good story and a good character's a good character.

Michael Sheen

GoodCharacterStoryThinkI Think

My first car was a '63 Chevy station wagon that I called Ramona, because that's the sound it made. 'Farm Use' was painted on the back. It was right off the set of 'Hee Haw.'

Judge Reinhold

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People will say a movie bombed at the box office but I couldn't care less.

Johnny Depp

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I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in.

Denise Mina

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I don't look at it as mainstream country versus outsider.

Chris Stapleton

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