Top 1200 Davis Cup Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Evil tendency, strong like Miles Davis heroin dependency.

I loved Bette Davis when I was little and when I was big and when I got old.

Love, whether it's friendship or more, is like a cup. It fills up drop by drop, until one last drop and the cup is full. The liquid hangs there almost above the rim, hangs there on surface tension alone and you know that one more drop and it will spill over.

Miles Davis himself, I discovered him when I was 15, and he rocked my world.

I wanted the opportunity to work with Judy Davis and Simon Wincer.

My goal against Italy in the World Cup qualifier was probably my most memorable: we had to go to Italy and had to win, or we wouldn't go to the World Cup, and I scored in stoppage time.

Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" .

The Qualifier is a different standard to what we will face in the World Cup in England. The conditions will be different, the pressure is different, double or treble what we faced here. This will give a base for all the young players rather than go into World Cup raw.

I'm looking forward to Phoenix. I ran well there last year in the Nationwide Series, and it was one of the tracks I made four Sprint Cup starts at last season. In the Cup race last year, I had a good run going for it being my first time there in a Cup car, and unfortunately got damage from an accident. It's not a restrictor plate race, so this will be the first time this season that I will run a lot of laps in practice. It's also the first race for the new qualifying format, so it will be interesting to see how that works out. Overall, I just want to have a solid run in the BRANDT Chevy.

Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the coffee is black, thick, unsavory of smell, and execrable in taste. The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour.

I remember plastering the kitchen with Black Power pictures of Angela Davis.

There is only one governor, and his name is Gray Davis.

Everyone in heaven will be fully blessed, but not everyone will be equally blessed. Every believer's cup will be full and running over, but not everyone's cup will be the same size. We determine in time what our capacity for appreciating God will be in eternity.

Miles Davis and Felonious Monk, they're both great artists who enhance things.

Being inducted into the songwriting hall of fame by Clive Davis, that was pretty memorable.

I was the kid that grew up watching Bette Davis films.

I like to take mustard baths. I combine 4 lbs Epsom salts, 3 oz mustard powder, 12 oz powdered milk, and 1/2 cup baking soda, add in 12 drops each of rosemary and eucalyptus essential oils, then whisk it and pour 1/4 cup of the mix into the tub while warm water is running.

I think the FA Cup has great memories and I think there have been Nigerian legends that have played in it as well, like Jay-Jay Okocha and Nwankwo Kanu. They've played in it, so it's a great thing to play in the FA Cup.

I want to win games, want to win championships. I want to go to the World Cup. I want to win a World Cup. I want to play in Champions League. I want to have fun throughout all of that, and I want my family to be a part of that through the entire path.

I don't think I have the image that say, Judy Garland has, or Bette Davis.

Stuart Davis has more to do with what the United States is like than Hopper.

I grew up listening to legends such as Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Tony Bennett.

Davis fouls out to third in fair territory.

Do you think Sammy Davis ate Junior Mints?

I don't know about Willie Davis. He's not as young as he used to be.

My dad got sent off for punching Roberto Mancini in the face. It was in the European Cup-Winners' Cup quarter-final in 1991, and if you look on YouTube, you will have confirmation. It's a very clear punch. He just went straight through him. I can't wait to play against Mancini now. Maybe he will remember.

Davis was weak and vascillating, timid, petulant, peevish, obstinate, but not firm.

If I'm going to be a jazz player, I need to understand Miles Davis.

Ossie Davis is one of my heroes for civil rights and things like that.

First, you have to play good football so that you get to play for a good team. Then, hopefully, you achieve such a level that you are invited to play for your national side, in time for a World Cup if possible. Then, obviously, play a good World Cup. That's my dream.

I don't care who guards him. He's still going to be Anthony Davis.

Every player wants to win the World Cup - every country wants to win the World Cup - so anything less than that is not really a bonus. Of course you can take positives out of everything, but you won't be entirely happy if you don't win it.

The World Cup in 2010 is going to be the most inspirational thing ever to hit the streets in South Africa. For the first time, the World Cup won't just be something that is happening on the other side of the world think about the excitement-the biggest players, from all over the world, will be playing football in a stadium just round the corner from home.

My teammates and I are best known for our penalty kick victory against China to win the 1999 Women's World Cup. But a lot of people don't realize that when we were first playing soccer on the Women's National Team, the Women's World Cup didn't exist. In fact, Women's Soccer wasn't even in the Olympics.

I could hear the knock and whistle of the water pipes, the purr of the calico cat. And at that moment a happiness filled me that was pure and perfect and yet it was bled with despair - as if I had been handed a cup of ambrosial nectar to drink from and knew that once I finished drinking, the cup would be withdrawn forever, and nothing to come would ever taste as good.

For the May Day is the great day, Sung along the old straight track. And those who ancient lines did ley Will heed this song that calls them back... Pass the cup, and pass the Lady, And pass the plate to all who hunger, Pass the wit of ancient wisdom, Pass the cup of crimson wonder.

Bette Davis was a close friend. She loved to have a good time.

I don't see why I can't listen to Miles Davis and Slipknot in the same afternoon.

Bette Davis in All About Eve was huge for me. Her acting was staggering.

My playing started to develop through the Miles Davis stuff I was listening to.

I grew up on Bette Davis movies, and Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe.

One of my favorite movies is Bette Davis in 'All About Eve,' and it is shocking there was no pressure on her to be likable.

We have big goals at Bayern and always want to go as far as possible in each competition and win silverware. But it is great to have won the World Cup. You are a world champion for your entire life. A lof of people talk about it and it remains very special. But it's not like I think about the World Cup each morning I wake up.

In urban culture, Larry Davis is something of a legend.

I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.

I have no animosity toward Al Davis or John Madden.

When people are overlooking somebody like Phil Davis, it's a dangerous thing.

My best years were 2010 and 2011, and the 2010 World Cup was the most incredible experience. Our tiny nation reached the semi-finals, I finished joint-top scorer in South Africa, and my goal against Germany was voted the best of the tournament. I was also named the best player of that World Cup.

Miles Davis is a major influence of mine in terms of the way that I am as a bandleader.

I'm not against Flash, and I love the work that people such as Joshua Davis do.

My musical influences are from the '50s: Bill Evans, Miles Davis and Ahmad Jamal.

I'm always fighting the cup-is-half-empty way of being, versus the cup-is-half-full. I'm always fighting the pessimistic versus the positive.

I'm very close with Brian Davis, Thomas Hill, and Marty Clark.

Jesus drank a cup of wrath without mercy, that we might drink a cup of mercy without wrath.

Al Davis was the first to know about my decision to retire, and Mom was second.

One cup of food a day changes Fabian's life completely. But this morning, about a billion people on Earth - or one out of every seven - woke up and didn't even know how to fill this cup. One out of every seven people.

I used to think of that line in Allen Ginsberg's 'Howl', about the 'sad cup of coffee'.. ..I have had cold coffee and hot coffee and lousy coffee, But I've never had a sad cup of coffee.

Back in the days of Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, beauty wasn't the be-all and end-all it is today.

I'm going to beat Alexis Davis then take a nap

I want to establish myself as the first Eric Davis, not the next Willie Mays.