Michael Davis Quotations

Unusually for social housing of this type, there is nothing institutional about the feel of this building. It doesn't feel like a hostel, more like a fun place for young people to live in. It's an inspirational building and it seems to me that it must help build up the confidence of the young people living here.

She stayed with Bill until the paramedics came and kept him talking, so Bill wasn't alone. That gift of not leaving him alone when he was hurt like that is the most precious thing she could have done for him and for us.

Nicholls is in a dead spot with the design.

I have friends who definitely sort of turn up their noses at what they consider to be the hokiness of this show, ... But when you meet these people coming off buses and planes, you can't help feeling good about who they are and where they're from. ... Are we going to bring them in and make fun of them? It's completely the opposite.

I anticipate Lufkin to lose power on Sunday, so we are preparing be without power. A nursing home must maintain electricity as long as possible because many of our patients are on oxygen concentrators and feeding tubes that depend on electricity to run. And there are a lot of meals to prepare.

I had just broken up with my wife so I was searching for another way to live.

For the second month in a row, Democrats in Minnesota have stood up to the GOP's underhanded tactics. While the governor chose to play games with special elections, voters in Minnesota made it clear who represents their values.

I think, weirdly, it almost takes an outsider to be able to - with no cynicism - look at small-town America and realize how fantastic it is.

It isn't the intent that you run around and have these meetings at a restaurant. It's a pretty bad policy.

I think some time after 1969 or so, the band started to lose its light. But I'll tell you what, boy- on the way up, it was happening.

I went over to say hi to Rob and he introduced me to Wayne and Fred. I had made a radical purchase of some brown Beatle boots. Wayne was like 'Where did you get those boots! Who is this guy?

People are recognizing there is viability in multimedia. CDMA affords higher bandwidth for delivery of new broadband services.

Recent economic data gives us confidence that corporate spending is coming back to life, so I'm hoping sales could be above $5 billion. That would set a strong tone for the rest of the year,

Our officers are devastated about what took place, ... You try to do everything conceivable to protect, but sometimes it's just not possible.

Lloyd has no creative restraint whatsoever. He is almost creatively reckless.

We need more ingredients, ... Most of the technology companies have demonstrated improving margins and sequential revenue growth. The foundation is setting up for a recovery, but the market has come pretty far in a short period of time. We need some more conviction coming into August. I think we're going to trade sideways for the near term.

I was not a musician at the time. I had an acoustic guitar and I used to sing folk music and Bob Dylan songs. I loved rock and roll though.

My belief is he is going to change.

We had all this kind of freedom and 'get out of your head' kind of stuff and at the same time, we were trying to establish ourselves in the business. These two things are really difficult to bring together.

We had all these things to deal with- houses full of people and John going to jail, guys from New York saying 'don't worry about anything.' So it was really confusing.

We've gotten ahead of ourselves for a couple of months now, ... Right now people are on hold because some of these valuations do look a little high. I think people are just waiting for further confirmation that things are going to spill out into the earnings field.

TI is performing well but it is being unfairly tainted,

When I joined the band, being that I was going to take this up as a profession, I realized that there were no two finer guitar players in the world that I'd rather play with.

We haven't figured out who (posted the money) or how he was able to bail out,

With a good performance and at least some encouraging tones from Chambers, we could get a change of mood on the Street. It's desperately needed. It's time we focus on fundamentals.

What I want to explore is Ken Jennings as Peter Parker or Clark Kent, Spider-Man or Superman -- the normal man-superhero parallax, the normal, meek guy who, put in a competitive situation, becomes a killer. Think 'Price Is Right' with games of skill and intelligence in a multi-game format. Explore Ken against . . . the rest of the world and in national costumes when we can get it.

We were like a bouncing ball. We didn't really have any direction or management. We were trying to be organized from within. We didn't have anyone saying 'keep going with this' or anyone that was out promoting us with any effect. We were doing it ourselves and we were not getting anywhere. Trying to make our own little singles and what else can you do? We didn't have any kind of patrons.

You get bored just riding around by yourself all the time.

We are asking for people to rummage through their attics and storerooms to see if they have anything which could be of interest to us.

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.

The worst thing is the dog hair, and the best thing is just knowing that he's back there.

The things that people really want aren't the things that are traditionally given away on television.

The money has just been piling up and isn't being allocated.

Back at that time, we played the songs pretty much the way we heard them on the records. We streamlined them somewhat. We even had band uniforms that we wore and that was one of the first things I had to do. I went out to the department store and purchased black slacks and a black vest and a green corduroy blazer. That was sort of our official uniform at the time and we used that for a while.

There's a strong handset replacement cycle going on right now that will generate the next phase of growth, ... First it was color and camera phones and now it will be higher resolution and video enabled phones that will be prevalent this holiday season.

As producers, we've kind of gotten over ourselves in terms of being ironic, ... There is something post-ironic about My Kind of Town . We're not trying to be cool and smart and clever. This show definitely isn't that.

It provides a real opportunity for the public to see a vast array of tropical fruits that you wouldn't normally come across.

Super Millionaire' will take the format to a whole new level.

It's been fun to learn and see what he does firsthand.

Nothing ever sounds quite the way it does when you're standing right in the middle of it.

They (Beijing) have acknowledged that more is needed in the reform exercise.

The New Orleans I knew ain't no more.

The last thing I'm going to do is run around town trying to tell anybody that darts is going to be the next poker, ... but darts had a lot to recommend it to American television. It fits into that intersection of American popular culture and sports and regular life, which poker has readily occupied. So there are some similarities.

I'm not sure we're that oversold right now, given that P/E ratios are still high relative to what we perceived the forward-looking earnings to be, ... When we go through the next month and we start to see the first quarter results, I think the expectations are going to come down. With that, it's going to be difficult to sustain much higher growth unless we get some greater visibility.

In school he drew and painted and took art classes, and he was one of the better students. I assumed that would be the path that he followed. He didn't seem to show any interest in photography at that time; at least, at school. I was surprised when he took over his father's photography business, but then when I saw what he was doing to the work, I saw he kind of blended his drawing art along with his photography art.

Inventory levels have been held back because of the pervasive pessimism in technology. There was resistance to build inventory because of fear of charges.

I didn't think I was wasting my time. I thought I was in the right company. Those guys were so good. The more we played, the more it became obvious that we had something special. No other band was... I didn't think any other band was capable of what we were doing.

I attempted to liberate some sunglasses from the corner drugstore. It wasn't a good idea. So they came charging out of there with ball-bats. I guess they thought I was a pretty vicious individual.

The Iraq situation just seems to hang over business investment decisions, which is critical right now, ... Unfortunately, we're dependent upon enterprise spending. We're seeing signs that telecom is starting to catch on. But if you look at a company like Cisco, where two-thirds of their business is tied to enterprise spending, we're still in this quagmire.

These guys are characters, and that's one of the things that got ESPN very excited, ... They don't look so perfect. They've got strange regional accents and odd facial hair. They've lived a lot of life and they look like it. And they are also superb at what they do.

The idea is you are not doing anything behind closed doors.

The evidence is in that tech is finally turning around, ... That's most clearly demonstrated with telecom. Even Lucent, despite its weaker performance among its peers, is suggesting they've got some visibility.

The guidance, although somewhat more optimistic than it has been, didn't really hit a home run,