A.C. Davis Quotes

At Rest An American Soldier And Defender of the Constitution.

I usually write from the rhythm section...If a drummer got a funky beat on some things - like a half-shuffle or a shuffle or a backbeat that's even - I can write something.

What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.

Anything can be achieved with a good, healthy dose of courage.

I guess I would say first of all that we tend to go back to the 60s and we tend to see these struggles and these goals in a relatively static way.

When two enemies are talking, they're not fighting.

I may not have been wearing a mink coat, but I was traveling with a dog. That should have made you think I was an actress!

[On her father, Ronald Reagan:] How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the grates of the streets of America 'are homeless by choice'?

It was one of the compromises of the Constitution that the slave property in the Southern States should be recognized as property throughout the United States.

There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.

Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

If you have to ask, you'll never know.

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.

I survived because I was tougher than anybody else.

She's the original good time who was had by all.

I never did pal around with actresses. Their talk usually bored me to tears.

Success only breeds a new goal

Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error.

With the newspaper strike on, I wouldn't consider dying.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

I never saw myself as an individual who had any particular leadership powers.

I've been dating since I was fifteen. I'm exhausted. Where is he?

When you live on the road, going home is a place to escape and just be with your family to unwind.

Above all, as the keynote of all Democratic policy, in passing upon any question, let the controlling aim and ambition be to keep the road open for private enterprise and personal initiative.

Be not haughty with the humble; be not humble with the haughty.

Do not forget in the darkness what you have been promised in the light.

Music is a funny thing when you really come to think about it.

Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

At first I was queasy; I'll never forget the sound of the scalpel cutting a body open. But it was so cool trying to work out how these people died.

Poverty is not a sin; it is a condition, a circumstance that allows God's work to be displayed.

All of us wish we had an Alice. I wish I had an Alice.

We are not called to be safe, we are simply promised that when we are in danger, God is right there with us. And there is no better place to be than in His hands.

Strong women only marry weak men.

Upon my weary heart was showered smiles, plaudits and flowers, but beyond them I saw troubles and thorns innumerable.

Pray to God and say the lines.

It is a duty we owe to posterity to see that our children shall know the virtues, and rise worthy of their sires.

We can't talk about the black community. It's no longer a homogeneous community; it was never a homogeneous community.

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veterans have done for all of us.

I am not a glam woman - this definitely is a mask I put on for the public.

Well, we see an increasingly weaker labor movement as a result of the overall assault on the labor movement and as a result of the globalization of capital.

Professionalism is not sportsmanship. If you don't succeed, you won't be in your profession for long. In our society, it's not about good or bad. It's about who's on top.

All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.

You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.

We get dopamine in the brain when we like something a lot. Well, cellphones stimulate dopamine, too. So it really is the case that there are some people who are pretty addicted to these devices.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

Temperament is something that is an integral part of the artist. Not temper, temperament. There is a vast difference.

I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.