W.H. Davies Quotes

Now I'm grown up and playing in a band.

I might even end up a rock and roll god, it might turn into a steady job.

It's never too late to get a new design, and if you wanna compete you gotta visualize.

Before you condemn me my friends, I suggest you look deep inside you. For good and evil exists in us all.

I'm not cheap, you understand, I'm just a cut price person in a low budget land.

Celluloid heroes never feel any pain.

Eagerly pursuing all the latest fads and trends cause he's a dedicated follower of fashion.

I am the image maker, I am the magic maker, I can turn the most ordinary man in the world into a star.

My girlfriend's packed her bags and moved out to another town, she couldn't stand the boredom when the video broke down.

Newsmen winding up the nation, a little bad news helps circulation, pass on the panic to the population.

You say your image is new, but it looks well tested.

Come and love me, be my apeman girl, and we will be so happy in my apeman world.

She can't see me staring at her cause I'm always wearing shades.

Calling all citizens all over the world, this is Captain America calling.

The King is dead, rock is done. You might be through, but I've just begun.

Hey, is that you Elvis? I wanna speak to the Colonel. Jump to it, you mother.

He's better than the rest, and his arm sweat smells the best.

A man has one, a cat has nine, and in between it's killing time.

I don't wanna die in a nuclear war, I want to sail away to a distant shore, and make like an apeman.

There was a gas strike, oil strike, lorry strike, bread strike, got to be a Superman to survive.

I looked in the mirror at my pigeon chest, I had to put my clothes on cause it made me depressed.

Why stay with him, he uses you just like a human punching bag?

I met her in a club down in North Soho, where you drink champagne and it tastes just like Coca-Cola.

I think that songwriting changed when groups started spending more time in the studio.

If you weren't naggin', honey, you'd be so sweet.

Jogging in the park is my excuse to look at all the girls.

There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray.

The day we were born, we were all God's children.

Powerman don't need to fight, powerman don't need guns, powerman got money on his side.

Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right.

We are the Draft Beer Preservation Society.

Paranoia, the destroyer.

The soul needs attention like the body needs to breath.

Silly boy, you got so much to live for, so much to aim for, so much to try for.

If I told you God was black, what would you think of that?

Dissatisfied with what I am, I want to be a better man.

If you don't hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you'll get.

The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.

This is one of the cruelties of the theatre of life; we all think of ourselves as stars and rarely recognize it when we are indeed mere supporting characters or even supernumeraries.

Whether you are really right or not doesn't matter; it's the belief that counts.

If you're going to do something that looks evil, don't smear it with icing and pretend it's good; just bloody well do it and keep your eyes peeled.

Be sure to choose what you believe and why you believe it, because if you don't choose your beliefs, you may be certain that some belief, and probably not a very credible one, will choose you.

Some countries you love. Some countries you hate. Canada is a country you worry about.

And I say to you that if you bring curiosity to your work it will cease to be merely a job and become a door through which you enter the best that life has to give you.

The ideal companion in bed is a good book.

A man who recognizes no God is probably placing an inordinate value on himself.

When one is traveling, one must expect to spend a certain amount of money foolishly.

It is a waste of time to dissipate one's moral zeal in disapproving of royal persons who have mistresses.

Every man makes his own summer. The season has no character of its own, unless one is a farmer with a professional concern for the weather.

The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to kill time; who love books, but do not live by books