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Robertson Davies Quotes

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

Robertson Davies

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

World Present Country Canada Desire

High reputation beats high similarity.

Joe Gebbia

Reputation High Similarity Beats

What happens at 90 is that I don't walk so good, my eyes are going, I can't hear well, and I'm getting all of the 90s residuals.

Jerry Lewis

Good Eyes Walk Going Well Happens

I feel I am strange to all but the birds of America.

John James Audubon

I Am Birds Feel America Strange Am

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

John Updike

Wisdom I Am Now Why Sixty See

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

Stanley Crouch

End Violence Redneck Segregation Nor

I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

Rita Dove

Short Play Write Stories Wrote

Be it 'Dare 2 Dance,' 'Man vs. Job,' or 'I Can Do That,' I have always taken up projects that is innovative. I want to try out different things, as that gets me going.

Rithvik Dhanjani

Dance Job Man Me I Can Want

No matter how busy I get or how much pressure is on my shoulders, a good workout makes me feel at ease. I come off the treadmill feeling relaxed, full of joy and with a sense of perspective over the issues on my plate.

Robin S. Sharma

Good Perspective Joy Me Busy Feel

One of my desert island books, 'The Leopard' is not so much a novel as a eulogy for a way of life and a Sicily that was already lost by the time Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa was writing.

Ruth Ware

Life Time Writing Desert Lost Way

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

Mason Cooley

Moment Compassion Rise Above Rise Us

There's some things that you learn as you're shooting, and as you're editing that are key, because when you start you don't have the brain that can finish it. You don't really know what it is, and that's the key job; figuring out what you actually have, not what you're dreaming of having.

Mike Mills

Job Brain Start Key Learn You

I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York.

Janice Dickinson

New York Walking Down New Streets