I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the res...
DAVY JONES The racing bug is never going to go away. It's like the Mafia.
DAVY JONES I'm really a clean-cut kid.
DAVY JONES Groupies to me, were people who followed you around. Familiar faces who were always there, asking fo...
DAVY JONES The thing is, the reader doesn't want to hear about bad times.
DAVY JONES People ask me if I ever get sick of playing 'Daydream Believer' or whatever. But I don't...
DAVY JONES People always expect you to be jumping out of a Rolls Royce and being in the papers for drunk and di...
DAVY JONES I was mad at Screen Gems, but I'm not mad at them anymore.
DAVY JONES Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance!
DAVY JONES The Beatles set the rules. And the rules were: now just because we have long hair doesn't mean t...
DAVY JONES The Monkees are like the mafia. You're in for life. Nobody gets out.
DAVY JONES I'm a married man. If I want sex at this particular point in my life, I go home for it.
DAVY JONES You know I used to be a heartthrob, and now I'm a coronary.
DAVY JONES I talked to Bob Feller just a couple weeks ago about Hal. Feller had nothing but good things to say ...
DAVY JONES My wife says when I go out to the refrigerator, I do three minutes (entertaining) when the light goe...
DAVY JONES As far as groupies, I never saw any of them.
DAVY JONES The Monkees were never cancelled for a start. NBC wanted to do a third year.
DAVY JONES The only people who didn't like The Monkees were the French, and they don't even like themse...
DAVY JONES During the summer, Screen Gems launched the New Monkees, which miserably failed I understand. I neve...
DAVY JONES Wherever I go, people still shout out: 'Hey, hey, we're The Monkees.' And I never tire o...
DAVY JONES The Monkees changed my life but ruined my acting career.
DAVY JONES You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas.
DAVY CROCKETT Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands...
DAVY CROCKETT Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
HUMPHREY DAVY I am now here in Congress I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgment dictates to be right...
DAVY CROCKETT Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take awa...
DAVY CROCKETT Be always sure your are right, then go ahead.
DAVY CROCKETT Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindn...
HUMPHREY DAVY Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindn...
HUMPHREY DAVY In the present state of our knowledge, it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cau...
HUMPHRY DAVY Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindne...
HUMPHRY DAVY We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of...
DAVY CROCKETT Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.
DAVY CROCKETT The enemy fought with savage fury, and met death with all its horrors, without shrinking or complain...
DAVY CROCKETT We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but ...
DAVY CROCKETT I would rather be beaten, and be a man, than to be elected and be a little puppy dog.
DAVY CROCKETT I now say that the oldest man living never heard of the president of a great nation to come down to ...
DAVY CROCKETT Whenever I had anything and saw a fellow being suffering, I was more anxious to relieve him than to ...
DAVY CROCKETT It was expected of me that I was to bow to the name of Andrew Jackson... even at the expense of my c...
DAVY CROCKETT I thought we did a good job in the second half to get out and pressure them and not let them get int...
DAVY ARNAUD I thought the PK was pretty clear cut. Josh did well and drew the foul. But we can't rely on that. W...
DAVY ARNAUD Yeah, I don't think the final ball was there for us tonight. It got tougher as the game went on beca...
DAVY ARNAUD That's the idea. We have a lot of potential going forward. It's not a situation where teams can focu...
DAVY ARNAUD It showed that we can win different kinds of ways. I think that was something we were lacking at the...
DAVY ARNAUD The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
HUMPHRY DAVY Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
HUMPHRY DAVY The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.
HUMPHREY DAVY I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
HUMPHREY DAVY The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.
HUMPHRY DAVY I have suffered my self to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and i...
DAVY CROCKETT Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.
DAVY CROCKETT Although our great man at the head of the nation, has changed his course, I will not change mine.
DAVY CROCKETT Since you have chosen to elect a man with a timber toe to succeed me, you may all go to hell and I w...
DAVY CROCKETT Be always sure you're right, then go ahead.
DAVY CROCKETT You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas
DAVY CROCKETT I have acted fearless and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be political...
DAVY CROCKETT I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.
DAVY CROCKETT I am at liberty to vote as my conscience and judgement dictates to be right, without the yoke of any...
DAVY CROCKETT I have always supported measures and principles and not men.
DAVY CROCKETT Heaven knows that I have done all that a mortal could do, to save the people, and the failure was no...
DAVY CROCKETT Pop, pop, pop! Bom, bom, bom!/ Throughout the day/ no time for memorandums now./ Go ahead! Liberty a...
DAVY CROCKETT It is a huckleberry above my persimmon to cipher out how it is, with six months' schooling only,...
DAVY CROCKETT I voted against this Indian bill, and my conscience yet tells me that I gave a good, honest vote, an...
DAVY CROCKETT For the information of young hunters, I will just say, in this place, that whenever a fellow gets ba...
DAVY CROCKETT Make sure your right, and then go do it.
DAVY CROCKETT The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
HUMPHREY DAVY It was really spooky. I don't know if that says something about Richmond greater as a whole, ... I h...
DAVY ROTHBART When Sir Humphry Davy returned from a visit to Paris he was asked how the picture galleries had impr...
HUMPHREY DAVY I'm excited to share these Lone Surfer stories because I've always wanted to be a writer since I was...
DAVY ROTHBART No man who has not tried it can imagine what dreadful hard work it is to listen. Splitting gum logs ...
DAVY CROCKETT People like to be shown around archives. I don’t know why. I’m in the business, but one row of s...
V.T. DAVY But we have two big German shepherds in the back yard. If she'd been able to get to them, we wouldn'...
DAVY CROCKETT When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with...
HUMPHRY DAVY You will find me standing up to my rack, as the people's faithful representative, and the public...
DAVY CROCKETT The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.
DAVY CROCKETT I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
HUMPHRY DAVY Nothing is so dangerous to the progress of the human mind than to assume that our views of science a...
HUMPHRY DAVY I learned to read a little in my primer, to write my own name, and to cypher some in the three first...
DAVY CROCKETT I couldn’t imagine leaving a child. Not because it was unthinkable, but because I couldn’t imagi...
V.T. DAVY You don’t rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and you...
V.T. DAVY The party in power, like Jonah's gourd, grew up quickly, and will quickly fall.
DAVY CROCKETT If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?
DAVY CROCKETT Throughout the day no time for memorandums now. Go ahead! Liberty and independence forever.
DAVY CROCKETT Be always sure you are right - then go ahead.
DAVY CROCKETT When a beautiful blonde asks, you don't say no.
V.T. DAVY It's appealing to imagine that if we can just get that one thing in our life to work out-- [...] tha...
DAVY ROTHBART We are looking for a big increase, like a doubling of our brand awareness. I think we'll see the des...
PHILIPPE DAVY The wealth and prosperity of the country are only the comeliness of the body, the fullness of the fl...
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures.
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY The child of trial, to mortality And all its changeful influences given; On the green earth de...
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deductio...
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of...
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man...
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most preci...
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that ...
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY There are very few persons who pursue science with true dignity. - Sir Humphrey Davy,
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY Be sure you are right, then go ahead.
DAVID (DAVY) CROCKETT Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindne...
SIR HUMPHREY DAVY I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up ...
FELICITY JONES Few rappers realize the genre sprang from West African griots through Delta slave songs to jazz poet...
QUINCY JONES It's great to see that celebrities can be just like us - that they too have their highs and lows...
SHIRLEY JONES I only know from my own personal experience, and I personally feel that there's a cyclical natur...
JEFFREY JONES I miss all of my old friends who have passed away. Sometimes you just don't understand why they ...
GEORGE JONES I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule.
TAYARI JONES Adolescence is a modern construct and very American in so many ways.
TAYARI JONES Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.
TAYARI JONES My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the c...
TAYARI JONES I like straightforward names for my characters. When I get too symbolic with names or places, I star...
TAYARI JONES I do have a sister - I have two sisters.
TAYARI JONES When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an e...
TAYARI JONES I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.
TAYARI JONES I take mentoring very seriously and as a result I hardly get any work done during the school year.
TAYARI JONES I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, whe...
TAYARI JONES When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catc...
TAYARI JONES I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field o...
TAYARI JONES I made the best business decision at 14 when I decided to get into acting. The worst was owning 2 ho...
TAMALA JONES I love Yves Saint Laurent. I love Chanel. And Versace! Such beautiful gowns!
TAMALA JONES I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
TAMALA JONES The expectations were low for 'Castle;' people thought we'd be one season and done.
TAMALA JONES I definitely love 'Camelot.' It's my favorite show. I'm a big 'True Blood' f...
TAMALA JONES I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around b...
TAMALA JONES People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my J...
TAMALA JONES I hid the fact that I had an aneurysm for a very long time. I was embarrassed, and I just felt like ...
TAMALA JONES I can go into a restaurant; I might have to go a few times, taste something, love it and figure out ...
TAMALA JONES I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
TAMALA JONES I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
TAMALA JONES For me, to do a reality show is like sending myself to actor's graveyard. I feel like I should w...
TAMALA JONES I'm a little goofy sometimes; I can get a little wacky.
TAMALA JONES You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't b...
VAN JONES Let me say what I actually believe. I believe that 9/11 was a conspiracy, by Al Qaeda, and Osama Bin...
VAN JONES I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explai...
VAN JONES I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and a...
JACK JONES I find great beauty in songs with a creative interpretation, but most people generally don't get...
JACK JONES Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.
JACK JONES I particularly like Hershey's chocolate, the kind which has almonds in it.
JACK JONES When people say to me, 'What do you think of rap music?', my answer is, 'There's no ...
JACK JONES I never thought I was going to be a singer. That was an accident.
GRACE JONES I have a weakness for watches. I have to stop myself buying more.
TOM JONES Fog and smog should not be confused and are easily separated by color.
CHUCK JONES I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through he...
DHANI JONES I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to le...
GRACE JONES I like dressing like a guy. I love it. When I was modeling I used to do pictures where I would dress...
GRACE JONES I want to see as many black professionals as possible.
ORLANDO JONES Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a persona...
ORLANDO JONES Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.
ORLANDO JONES I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making...
ORLANDO JONES That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero,...
ORLANDO JONES Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are ...
ORLANDO JONES You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's t...
ORLANDO JONES You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.
QUINCY JONES I got in the school band and the school choir. It all hit me like a ton of bricks, everything just c...
QUINCY JONES I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that ...
QUINCY JONES It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.
QUINCY JONES I have all the tools and gadgets. I tell my son, who's a producer, 'You never work for the m...
QUINCY JONES If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
QUINCY JONES I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute...
QUINCY JONES I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of...
QUINCY JONES Seattle is like a global gumbo, a melting pot with all kinds of people - the rich, the poor, white p...
QUINCY JONES We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probab...
QUINCY JONES I lost my mother when I was 7 and they put her in a mental hospital. My brother and I watched her be...
QUINCY JONES Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it&#...
QUINCY JONES A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top ...
QUINCY JONES Music in movies is all about dissonance and consonance, tension and release.
QUINCY JONES I don't ever want to grow up. That's boring.
QUINCY JONES I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No ...
QUINCY JONES I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long t...
QUINCY JONES You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
QUINCY JONES I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of al...
QUINCY JONES I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed,...
QUINCY JONES Playing the game, and unfortunately, playing the gangster game is very profitable.
QUINCY JONES Hate speech and freedom of speech are two different things.
LESLIE JONES In 'Hell Ride,' I play a biker - it's about the bikers. It's with Dennis Hopper and ...
VINNIE JONES It was very painful combing my hair. My grand-uncle was a Pentecostal bishop, and he was very strict...
GRACE JONES I like men. I like the sound of their voices, the way they think. They're more sensitive than wo...
CAROLYN JONES I have to think as Bugs Bunny, not of Bugs Bunny.
CHUCK JONES You wouldn't want to see the size of the check that I would write if it would for sure get the D...
JERRY JONES The press will naturally come and go as it has done with all artists, from David Bowie to Neil Young...
KELLY JONES When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you. Your posture is a little more erect; your shoulders are...
DHANI JONES I think we're very lucky that there is a tradition of British actors working in America and bein...
FELICITY JONES The good, old-fashioned family can help. Students learn by example, and if their parents, aunts, unc...
AL JONES That's a worry, because we have seen the intensity of students playing video games, watching TV more...
AL JONES It's the personal, intimate nature of books. It's hard to curl up with a computer.
AL JONES Somebody must have run a red light, I'm thinking that's the Honda based on preliminary reports.
AL JONES He was kind of the old-style beat cop. He took care of his area; he really felt responsible for his ...
AL JONES We talked in the locker room about how we've improved so much. That's what you want a young group to...
AL JONES We dug ourselves a hole pretty deep and just couldn't get back out of it. We didn't score a field go...
AL JONES When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the mu...
ADAM JONES In the time between records, I always have lots of stuff going on. I shoot photography, make little ...
ADAM JONES I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
ADAM JONES Doing the stereotypical solo bores me.
ADAM JONES I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
ADAM JONES I personally don't like to use as many effects because when you play live, something always goes...
ADAM JONES I think people like Steve Vai are so boring.
ADAM JONES I'm not a good guitar player.
ADAM JONES If I play anything that sounds like a solo, it's gonna sound like a lyric.
ADAM JONES Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.
ADAM JONES My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
ADAM JONES