Dermot Davis > Quotes

“Women are attracted to bad boys not because they want to fall in love… we just want to ride on the backs of their motor bikes.”
― Dermot Davis, The Younger Man

“People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.”
― Dermot Davis, Brain: The Man Who Wrote the Book That Changed the World

“Could the entire notion of finding one’s soul mate be a simple case of looking for ourselves in another body? Is the “soul mate” really just the best approximation of ourselves that we can find?”
― Dermot Davis, Zen and Sex

“Maybe the Buddha was right: pain and suffering are the only true constants in life.”
― Dermot Davis, Zen and Sex

“What is a life lived without passion? he asked himself. And what is passion, but a yearning of the soul for recognition and self-expression? The beauty within seeks beauty without.”
― Dermot Davis, Stormy Weather

“By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize are other idiots.”
― Dermot Davis, Brain: The Man Who Wrote the Book That Changed the World

“Crazy people love their Kindles.”
― Dermot Davis, Brain: The Man Who Wrote the Book That Changed the World

“Women want a lot of sex with the man they love; men want to have a lot of sex with a lot of different women.”
― Dermot Davis, Zen and Sex

“Romantic love has its place but to define relationship solely in romantic terms is like describing marriage only by what a couple does on their honeymoon.”
― Dermot Davis, Zen and Sex

“Someone once said that nostalgia is longing for a place you’d never go back to and thinking about it… that’s pretty much how I’m feeling about my ex-husband: longing for someone I’d never go back to.”
― Dermot Davis, The Younger Man

“Guys get a bad rap for not wanting to talk about their feelings but maybe women are in part to blame for that. One thing that I learned from working with people where English was not their first language was this: just because they don’t speak your language doesn’t mean that they’re dumb. Maybe we just need to talk more slowly, use simpler words and have lots more patience.”
― Dermot Davis, The Younger Man

“The big trinity of publishing: mystery, thrillers and romance. If you can combine all three, then it’s a winner’s trifecta and you’ll be rich beyond your dreams.”
― Dermot Davis, Brain: The Man Who Wrote the Book That Changed the World

“It started with feelings of jealousy and like a mental virus it spread.”
― Dermot Davis, Fatal Eclipse

“Currer Bell (Charlotte Bronte)”
― Dermot Davis, Brain: The Man Who Wrote the Book That Changed the World

“Prologue It was graduation”
― Dermot Davis, Brain: The Man Who Wrote the Book That Changed the World

“It should be listed under satire, not children’s bedtime stories!”
― Dermot Davis, Brain: The Man Who Wrote the Book That Changed the World

“Are we artists who dream about possibilities or are we scientists who stand by the what the facts reveal?” “Yes,”
― Dermot Davis, Encounter