W.H. Davies Quotes

I liked the idea of all of humanity fitting inside a sugar cube because more than 99.9% of matter is space.

You can't find God before an altar if that is the only place you look for him.

I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written," and I thought, "Maybe I could be a writer."

I think that things happen for a reason.

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

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.

Actually, I'm addicted to science fiction. Let me make my diction clear - I love sci-fi.

It's Brazil 2 Scotland 1, so Scotland are back where they were at the start of the match

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

Cantona's expression speaking the whole French dictionary without saying a word.

We should celebrate more often politicians who stand up and say things that are unpopular.

The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness.

If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist

People like bonnets. I don't think you can under-estimate that.

It slid away from his left boot which was poised with the trigger cocked

Fiction is not photography, it's oil painting.

True love is really animal.

A misfit like me getting anywhere in Hollywood as I somehow have, seemed, certainly at the time of 'Spanking The Monkey,' kind of out of reach, or not a very realistic take.

I'm frightened of nothing anymore," answered Fell simply, "except lies. For they're the real killers.

I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon.... [disgustedly] in Cardiff!

In my experience tact is usually worse than the brutalities of truth.

Underneath that rude exterior, you've got a heart of gold.

We live in a world where bulk is equated with quality.

I just am a Canadian. It is not a thing which you can escape from. It is like having blue eyes

You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!

The secret of our success on planet Earth is space. Lots of it. Our solar system is a tiny island of activity in an ocean of emptiness.

Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves.

I love thee for a heart that’s kind--not for the knowledge in thy mind.

You are not evil, Fell. You have just been robbed of love. Of light.

The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.

Man-made computers are limited in their performance by finite processing speed and memory. So, too, the cosmic computer is limited in power by its age and the finite speed of light.

I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.

I used to have this Mercedes, a dark blue 450SLC, which was the most beautiful car. I'd like to have another unusual, beautiful car.

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.

The principle that light can be in two places at the same time is absolutely extraordinary.

A bambiraptor is a savage baby dear.

I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The ideal companion in bed is a good book.

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.

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.

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.