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Robertson Davies Quotes

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

Robertson Davies

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Dog Woman Man Wise Survive Mad

I'm one of the few women in science. I have pioneered that. One of the things I worry about is what that pioneering has done to me. I have had to fight quite hard most of the way through life.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Life Women Science Fight Me Worry

When I walk through an airport and people go, 'You're not fat!' I'm like, 'Thanks. That's great. Good to know I'm not fat today! Thank you!'

Jessica Simpson

Good Today Great Walk People Fat

I am a big believer in sage. Chan calls me his Little White Witch. Every hotel room, every apartment we rent, I am sage-ing. And I have crystals that I travel with. It just makes me feel better.

Travel I Am Me Better Feel Hotel

My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too.

Beautiful Political Philosophy Way

Perhaps I have written fiction because everything unambiguously expressed seems somehow crass to me; and when the subject is myself, I want to jeer and weep.

Myself Me Want Everything Fiction

If you see a snake, just kill it - don't appoint a committee on snakes.

Snake You Committee See Just Snakes

Between death and a new birth, we know that our body, down to its smallest particles, is formed out of the cosmos. For we ourselves prepare this physical body, bringing together in it the whole of animal nature; we ourselves build it.

Nature Together Death Animal Body

Denialist arguments are often bolstered by accurate information taken wildly out of context, wielded selectively, and supported by fake experts who often don't seem fake at all.

Michael Specter

Fake Information Out Context Seem

When you want something so badly, you just do it. You don't think about how hard it's going to be.

Think You Want Hard Just Do It Just

I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September.

Birthday Lunch Celebrate Born Earth

I taught in Belize for a year, and before I left, my parents were birddogging me to get health care coverage. So what I did was, I reenrolled in college, and then got coverage through my college.

Denis McDonough

Health Parents College Me Care Year

I come from what they call the land of nowhere. I'm from the suburb. It's extremely atomizing.

Land Nowhere Call Come Suburb

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