William Cullen Bryant Quotes
On rolls the stream with a perpetual sigh; The rocks moan wildly as it passes by; Hyssop and wormwood border all the strand, And not a flower adorns the dreary land.William Cullen Bryant
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
Daniel Cormier -
The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.
Ralph Baer -
I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
Dan Gilbert -
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
T. S. Eliot -
When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.
Katarina Witt -
Of course I used to smile and laugh in 1976, but not when I was competing. Please show me somebody who laughs when they are concentrating; I always smiled.
Nadia Comaneci
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Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.
Ozwald Boateng -
My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
Cameron Mackintosh -
I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
Parker Stevenson -
I would describe my look as 'ladylike rock chick.'
Felicity Jones -
In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
Karl Shapiro -
Adultery is the ultimate deal-breaker for me. I would rather be alone than in a relationship that doesn't honor me.
Garcelle Beauvais
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When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.
Paloma Faith -
I want to see more sports in schools.
Saina Nehwal -
I am at a crossroads; I have always been against armed opposition... I have chosen civil disobedience. But I will apologize to my people if there are funerals coming out of prisons. I will criticize myself and I won't be the mayor of Diyarbakir.
Osman Baydemir -
The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth.
Mahmoud Abbas -
The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.
Fernando Pessoa -
Denmark nursed that anger and it kept him free.
Orson Scott Card
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As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of these countless snow-stars comes whirling to earth...these glorious spangles, the sweeping of heaven's floor.
Henry David Thoreau -
Sometimes people ask me, 'You do stand-up?' I try explaining what I do, and I don't think they really get it. So: 'Yeah, I do stand-up.' I wish there was one word to express what I do - that way, I don't sound arrogant. Whenever I say I'm a performer, people think I'm a performance artist: 'She paints herself white and pretends to be a flower.'
Charlyne Yi -
The root and the flower have to trust each other. If the root does not trust, the plant won't blossom.
William Stafford -
Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength.
Bram Stoker -
On rolls the stream with a perpetual sigh; The rocks moan wildly as it passes by; Hyssop and wormwood border all the strand, And not a flower adorns the dreary land.
William Cullen Bryant