Top 989 Sammy Davis Jr Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

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

There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable.

Sammy Sosa grew up without a father in the back of a converted public hospital in San Pedro de Macoris, a dusty seaside town in the Dominican Republic. His father, Juan Montero, died when Sosa was 5.

Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He is Slammin' Sammy, a fairy-tale figure rising from poverty in the Dominican Republic to the 55th floor above Chicago's Lake Shore Drive.

In his brief 21 years on this earth, Michael Smith Jr. touched countless lives.

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

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

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

Pete Wilson deregulated energy as a pay out to Enron, and we blamed Gray Davis.

(On Bette Davis) Even when I was carrying a gun, she scared the be-jesus out of me.

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

Evil tendency, strong like Miles Davis heroin dependency.

Early on, I wrote a letter to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. I was 17. I felt called, moved.

Bette [Davis] and I are good friends. There's nothing I wouldn't say to her face - both of them.

I've been close to Bette Davis for thirty-eight years - and I have the cigarette burns to prove it.

The primary reason that I'd be here or that Don Payne Jr. would be here is for you to know that members of Congress actually exist and are human.

'George' exploits John Kennedy Jr.'s cult of celebrity at a time when Americans are hungry for icons, not heroes.

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.

I grew up in Arizona listening to Hank Williams Jr., Johnny Cash, Tammy Wynette, and Dolly Parton.

I study Floyd Mayweather, Mike Tyson, Roy Jones Jr and Sugar Ray Leonard.

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

We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail.

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

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

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

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

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

We've done shows with Tim McGraw, Hank Williams Jr., Montgomery Gentry, Shooter Jennings.

I have been able to stay clear of the Harry Connick, Jr. prank show but have seen the wrath.

In 1905, I was privileged to be given a place in the private laboratory of my revered teacher, Professor W. H. Perkin, Jr. at the University of Manchester.

I'm very close to Michel Roux Jr, so my favourite restaurant in the world is Le Gavroche in Mayfair.

My work has always been rooted in nonviolence, as espoused by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

Relaxing at home in his 55th-floor condominium before a game, Sammy Sosa is the same as at the ball park: focused but funny, exuberant but reserved. He is in a strange country, conversing in two languages, but his every movement displays a combination of confidence and humility.

I really think that Steven Caple, Jr. is going to be a great addition to the 'Rocky' director pantheon.

Coming back to Dinosaur Jr. and actually writing songs for the band was really intense for me.

I'd like to do something with Michael Buble, Harry Connick Jr., Tim McGraw, Justin Timberlake, and Gwen Stefani.

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

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

The casting couch? There's only one of us who ever made it to stardom without it, and that was Bette Davis.

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

You know, if Nancy Davis hadn't come along when she did, I would have lost my soul.

He's not anybody's clone. He's Ken Griffey, Jr. As long as he continues to remind himself of that, he's going to be a very good player.

Even as a kid, I was more enchanted watching Bette Davis than Errol Flynn.

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

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

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

When I write songs, I like to write lyrics first, and I think that's different from a lot of singer-songwriters. But I heard Sammy Cahn was asked what comes first, the lyrics or the music, and he said, 'The paycheck.'

Oh, man, the first concert I ever went to was Boston and Sammy Hagar, and it was absolutely incredible. I was just blown away by both bands, and, once again, it was my first concert, so that made it super, super special.

Apparently, Bette Davis and a lot of actresses had a hard time in their 30s, too.

I got Jimmy Hall from Wet Willie and he also plays now with Hank Williams Jr.

I could never understand the attraction of Bette Davis. I always preferred Jane Russell.

The Kennedy family might be a lot of things, but for RFK, Jr., 'warm and fuzzy' doesn't exactly come to mind.

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

I had a very strong 'revertigo' for becoming the kid that I was when I was in Dinosaur Jr. That's a pretty insecure place that I was in.

I went to Clive Davis' Grammy party, and I nearly spontaneously combusted because everyone on my iPod was there!

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

Sammy Baugh embodied all we aspire to at the Washington Redskins. He was a competitor in everything he did and a winner. He was one of the greatest to ever play the game of football, and one of the greatest the Redskins ever had.

I personally think Miles Davis is a lot funnier than me. And he's working more.

William F. Buckley, Jr. does not so much speak as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.

America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.