Mark Akenside Quotes
Than Timoleon's arms require,And Tully's curule chair, and Milton's golden lyre.
Mark Akenside
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Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.
Alexander Pope
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The master enjoined not austerity, but moderation. If we truly enjoyed things, he claimed, we would be spontaneously moderate. Asked why he was so opposed to ascetical practices, he replied, 'Because they produce pleasure-haters who always become people-haters - rigid and cruel.'
Anthony de Mello
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I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house…love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.
David Byrne
Talking Heads
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Buffalo Springfield had three guitar players, and we thought they were so cool. So we started doing the three-guitar thing, and people started calling us the 'guitar army' and all this stuff.
Gary Rossington
Lynyrd Skynyrd
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'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.
Bobby Ghosh
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I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, 'Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive.' Things should be better.
Matt Taibbi
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I feel like I'm treating people as I'd like to be treated.
Seth Godin
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Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy’s face, for instance, when he caught up with us for the last time, just outside the village. His eyes were streaming with tears, of exhaustion or distress, or both together. But because of the wrinkles they couldn’t flow down. They spread out, crisscrossed, and formed a smooth gloss on the old, worn face.
Albert Camus
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My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.
Kate DiCamillo
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I cherish the ballets made for myself by Mr. Balanchine. He never lost his temper. He was quiet, humble, the genius of the 20th century.
Patricia McBride
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Than Timoleon's arms require,And Tully's curule chair, and Milton's golden lyre.
Mark Akenside