W. H. Davies Quotes

It is not altogether shyness that now makes me unsuccessful in company. Sometimes it is a state of mind that is three parts meditation, that will not free the thoughts until their attendant trains are prepared to follow them.

W. H. Davies

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: welsh
  • Birth: July 3, 1871 - September 26, 1940

Topics

MindMeThoughtsFreeNowSometimes

We've become, now, an oligarchy instead of a democracy. I think that's been the worst damage to the basic moral and ethical standards to the American political system that I've ever seen in my life.

Jimmy Carter

LifeDemocracyThinkPoliticalMoral

Clearly, any well-kept garden will be a source of pleasure in the summer months; in the bleak urban midwinter, however, there are few activities more likely to energise the spirit than a botanical walk.

John Burnside

WalkGardenSummerWillSpiritMore

I got sort of sick of seeing Asians being the blank, bland real estate agent or something. I didn't care. It didn't mean anything to me.

John Cho

MeReal EstateSickCareSeeing

The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic relations, deprive loyal men of their property, and disloyal as well, without trial or condemnation.

Melville Fuller

MenPresidentWithoutPropertyMay

It must be odd, being recognisable. I would hate to lose that anonymity. It happened for a while with 'Spooks.' No one notices me now.

Matthew Macfadyen

HateMeLoseNowAnonymityHappened

Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.

Stephen Kinzer

ExtinctionOffSomeManyTroubled

I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.

Tony Kushner

AmericaDieSayWillAngelsCertain

This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.

Mitt Romney

LoveChangeGreatGovernmentPeople

Tell your own story, and you will be interesting.

Louise Bourgeois

StoryInterestingYouWillTellOwn

My job is to pay attention to my children's genius and allow those leanings to lead them to their future.

Lisa Whelchel

FutureChildrenJobGeniusAttention

I really don't think records should be made in the manner where you sit and write, and when you're finished writing, you start recording. That just seems conventional and old-fashioned to me.

Jay Reatard

MeWritingStartThinkYouWrite

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Joseph Roux

WhichThemAffairsSlowness

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