W.H. Davies Quotes

To me, Venice and Ocean Park were gaiety. I had not been allowed to go to those things as a youngster.

The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.

I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.

I am notorious. I will go down in history as another Lady Hamilton.

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman.

It's about lessons for life. It's not just about winning either.

It's not just about a coach telling you what to do and just following it unthinkingly.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

By 1960 work will be limited to three hours a day.

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable.

Democracy will be dead by 1950.

Spying is a like a game of chess: Sometimes you have to withdraw, sometimes you have to sacrifice one of your pieces to win - preferably a knight rather than a king or queen.

The very concept of solid ground is a myth. The galaxy itself is adrift.

Villains are a lot of fun. My villains have a lot of tongue-in-cheek. They are sometimes conscious of and a little bit gleeful of their villainy.

Some people are attracted to sickness, to the kind of madness where sparks fly off the head, to the incoherence of despair, masked by nervous energy, which winds up looking like bewildered joy.

Everything Dies. That is the law of life-the bitter unchangeable law

The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.

And hear the pleasant cockoo, loud and long - The simple bird that thinks two notes a song.

After my father died, we began to live. He was psychotic. He really was terrifying.

For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?

I am the Bad Wolf. I create myself. I take the words. I scatter them... in time, and space. A message to lead myself here.

He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English.

It seemed to me as if the stones sang, in the strangest voices, in the language of Ultima Thule.

The quality of what is said inevitably influences the way in which it is said, however inexperienced the writer.

Curiosity is part of the cement that holds society together.

Boredom and stupidity and patriotism, especially when combined, are three of the greatest evils of the world we live in.

The nature of happiness is such that happiness retreats the more intensely you pursue it.

I like surfers. Their imagery, it's great.

She would be ready, but she would always make him wait.

The Christians to the lions sold out every night.

Tell the people what they want and decide what they need.

You look like a human being, but you don't have a mind of your own.

I call it suffering and pain, they call it entertainment.

This is a great opportunity for musicians to display their talent by re-interpreting some classic Kinks songs. Good luck, enjoy, be creative... be outrageous!

Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction.

The aristocrats and bureaucrats are dirty rats.

In the end you become part of everything you hate, basically.

[The Poles] will die for their country; but few will work for it.

We are made whole by books, as by great space and the stars.

A good dog never dies.

You've got to be actively involved in the process yourself and you've got to listen carefully to what the coach is saying, take that on board yourself and implement what the coach is saying.

You've got to be a disciplined person if you want to succeed both in sport and in life.

Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings.

You're beautiful, but you're somewhere else. That's okay. I can handle that. But we won't continue as friends, not just now. I like you as a lover, not a friend.

If time stood still, and we could choose the time, the best time, then love without pain would be all I know.

Love could be fractured and serve different purposes, and that intense love could be divided, between people just as easily as between moments of time.

I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics.

I think that things happen for a reason.

My perspective is that you should be IN the world, but not OF the world.