Charles Wolfe Quotes

Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried.

Charles Wolfe

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• I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Life
  • Important
  • Challenge

• It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • You
  • Mirror
  • Rare

• I love David's attitude in the Bible. He wasn't afraid to go against the trends. He wasn't going to be defined by the opinions of others.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Attitude
  • Opinions
  • Trends

• I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • World
  • Think
  • Computers

• The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Power
  • Road
  • Wealth

• Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial plans to determine the ribosome structure.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Words
  • Die
  • Plans

• I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Life
  • Career
  • Support

• I wanted to see if the American man in plain brown pants and a bare torso could speak profound things.

  

  Ted Shawn
  • American
  • Man
  • Speak

• One thing I learned working at magazines was that if you couldn't get people to look at a page or a cover, then you were fired. It was all about how you create arresting works, and by arresting I mean stop people, even for a nano-second.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • People
  • Stop
  • Look

• Monotheistic religions alone furnish the spectacle of religious wars, religious persecutions, heretical tribunals, that breaking of idols and destruction of images of the gods, that razing of Indian temples and Egyptian colossi, which had looked on the sun 3,000 years: just because a jealous god had said, 'Thou shalt make no graven image.'

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • God
  • Alone
  • Religious

• Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.

  

  Lewis Black
  • Great
  • Swimming

• We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Energy
  • Space

• Something like riding a horse - which I've recently started doing - requires courage, especially for me, as I started out being actually scared of horses.

  

  Mary Gaitskill
  • Courage
  • Horse

• There's a million people who can go out and play the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto brilliantly, but we're the only ones who can do 'A Little Nightmare Music.'

  

  Aleksey Igudesman
  • People
  • Music

• I would no more quarrel with a man because of his religion than I would because of his art.

  

  Mary Baker Eddy
  • Art

• Trust me: I don't wish I was a New Zealander.

  

  James Spithill
  • Wish
  • Trust

• Country music's really good about telling a story, so I want songs that tell good stories where people can say, 'That happened to me!'

  

  Lauren Alaina
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• Well, acting has been a dream of mine since I can remember; being in the movies and acting, having those experiences.

  

  Chris Klein
  • Remember
  • Dream

• The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • Important
  • Together
  • Want

• She touched his hand for the last time. "Oh, Karim, that we have already done. But always there was a problem between us. How can I explain? I wasn't me, and you weren't you. From the very beginning to the very end, we didn't see things. What we did--we made each other up."

  

  Monica Ali
  • Problem
  • Hands
  • Made

• We're passionate musicians, but we felt classical concerts were more like a funeral because nobody talked and everybody was dressed so conservatively. We thought that's kind of strange, because music is full of life! We thought we could break through that barrier with theater and comedy elements.

  

  Aleksey Igudesman
  • Life
  • Music
  • Comedy

• Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried.

  

  Charles Wolfe
  • Funeral