W. H. Auden Quotes
Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.W. H. Auden
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Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.
Valerie Bertinelli -
I am tone deaf.
Rachelle Lefevre -
People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.
Ed Markey -
My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
Imogen Cunningham -
Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
Harrison Ford -
Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
R. Kelly
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
Mahatma Gandhi -
A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
Federico Fellini -
I don't really care how I sound.
Victoria Azarenka -
I look formidable.
Vin Diesel -
All the best parts of art come from pain turned to celebration.
Natalia Kills -
I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
Laura Linney
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If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
Venus Williams -
I wonder, 'Why did I do that line that way?' And I also constantly think I'm fat and hate my teeth. But I've gotten better over the years. I've started to accept.
Kaley Cuoco -
I think from an actor's point of view, you always want something to play that's dramatic or something that feels like it could be very bold in choice. And of course, the boldest possible choice you could play at the end of a character's life is death.
Owain Yeoman -
Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.
Rajneesh -
When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
Larry Wall -
With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.
Nancy Grace
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We're a nation of liars. But I mean that in the kindest sense.
Neil Cavuto -
...opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
I always had a standard of, back when I was doing the country music I always told people I would never record a song that I wouldn't sit down and sing in front of my mom and dad.
Rickie Lee Skaggs -
I don't think my looks are modern. I always imagined I'd end up doing Chekhov, Ibsen and Shakespeare all my life and never play a contemporary character.
Alex Kingston -
An ambassador has no need of spies; his character is always sacred.
George Washington -
Precisely because we do not communicate by singing, a song can be out of place but not out of character; it is just as credible that a stupid person should sing beautifully as that a clever person should do so.
W. H. Auden