Richard Harding Davis Quotes

Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow.

Richard Harding Davis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: journalist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 18, 1864 - April 11, 1916

Topics

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By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

John le Carre

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It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate, elementary experience.

Robert Morgan

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I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes.

Amy Bloom

HeartStoryThinkTellGenesWell

I want them to be fully committed to the work place and fully committed to the people they work for.

Stuart Pearce

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Dubai's a pretty powerful place.

Solange Knowles

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It is my opinion that human history can make no sense unless evil doings are recognized for what they are, and that they are bearable only if somehow they may be redeemed.

Simon Conway Morris

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Having been a head of state gives you the possibility of getting into places others can't go.

Michelle Bachelet

YouGoPlacesOthersHeadBeen

I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would never have ended up being an entrepreneur. You can have the qualities, but if you don't have the environment, you just wither away. It's like a fish: take it out of water, it will not survive.

Mo Ibrahim

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Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else.

Josh Turner

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I made $2.58 an hour, and I spent it all on clothes.

Joseph Abboud

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I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

Bryan Adams

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