Robertson Davies Quotes

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

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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Deforestation will continue as long as cutting down and burning trees is more economic than preserving them.

Johan Eliasch

TreesLongDownWillMoreEconomic

Companies do not commit crimes; only their agents do. And while a company might get the benefit of some such crimes, prosecuting the company would inevitably punish, directly or indirectly, the many employees and shareholders who were totally innocent.

Jed S. Rakoff

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I've never argued that humans are massively hot-wired. What I was trying to point out was that you can't understand how we learn unless you identify the learning mechanisms. And these have some genetic basis.

Steven Pinker

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Cleveland, we've got a champion, baby!

Stipe Miocic

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Marvel comics took a chance on me in my youth, allowing me to create so many toys in their sandbox.

Rob Liefeld

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I've been hitting up Hooters since 1983, and I can assure you nothin' says football season is here quite like watching the game on wall-to-wall flat screen TVs with the smell of Hooters world-famous chicken wings in the air and an ice-cold beer in your hand, served up with one-and-only Hooters hospitality, of course.

Jon Gruden

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We're in business to relieve human suffering, to help feed the poor, to provide education and culture - but above all else, we're concerned with the relief of human suffering.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

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There's some kind of dark symbiosis between lunatics and the Postal Service.

Don Novello

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I think the reason I'm the best pound-for-pound fighter in the world is I beat everyone in my division.

Demetrious Johnson

BestWorldThinkFighterReason

My parents waited to have me and my sister - my dad was 43 when my mother had me, and my mom was 38. They purposefully waited until they had had their adventures in life so that we wouldn't represent the end of their freedom.

Christian Borle

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I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes.

Chuck Palahniuk

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A lot of people thought that it was a foolish step to move to television. But for me, it is all about the creative satisfaction I get.

Ashish Sharma

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