Charles Stuart Calverley Quotes
White is the wold, and ghostlyThe dank and leafless trees;And 'M's and 'N's are mostly Pronounced like 'B's and 'D's:'Neath bleak sheds, ice-encrusted,The sheep stands, mute and stolid:And ducks find out, disgusted,That all the ponds are solid.
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I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.
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People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
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I'm just totally into being strong. There's something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog's bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There's comfort in that.
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When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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It is so tempting to try the most difficult thing possible.
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In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai, where we remained until the end of August 1945.
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I don't think most men do hate women at all - I think most men are trying their best and facing a culturation into masculine behaviour that forces them to deny their own humanity and to exaggerate distance from the world of women.
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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
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You can't jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.
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The late development of mass industrial organization in the United States has both stimulated and retarded the political development of the American working class.
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In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.
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Another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody, I have some money 'cause I just got paid. How I wish I had someone to talk to, I'm in an awful way.
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Today we are visitors to the airport, tomorrow we will come here as travellers.
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We never love someone. We just love the idea we have of someone. It's a concept of ours - summing up, ourselves - that we love.
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A scientist can pretend that his work isn’t himself, it’s merely the impersonal truth. An artist can’t hide behind the truth. He can’t hide anywhere.
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In many respects, my work is very enjoyable, for I seem to get on pretty well with the fellows and enjoy the work of instruction as well as my own studies.
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I would tell people my dad was all the characters he's played in movies, because once you say he's a lawyer or something, they move on.
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Computers can do better than ever what needn’t be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly. (p. 109)
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White is the wold, and ghostlyThe dank and leafless trees;And 'M's and 'N's are mostly Pronounced like 'B's and 'D's:'Neath bleak sheds, ice-encrusted,The sheep stands, mute and stolid:And ducks find out, disgusted,That all the ponds are solid.
