Mark Akenside Quotes

Than Timoleon's arms require,And Tully's curule chair, and Milton's golden lyre.

Mark Akenside

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• Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Good
  • Art
  • Myself

• An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • People
  • Earth
  • Knowledge

• You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Time
  • You
  • Play

• There is always a multitude of reasons both in favor of doing a thing and against doing it. The art of debate lies in presenting them; the art of life lies in neglecting ninety-nine hundredths of them.

  

  Hale White
  • Life
  • Art
  • Lies

• As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Girl
  • Woman
  • Horse

• To the youth who have taken up guns, I urge them to return to their parents and shun violence.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Taken

• I think theater is a core need of a community.

  

  Sam Underwood
  • Think
  • Community
  • Need

• Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • America
  • Together
  • Partner

• I want to move people the way Edith Piaf did.

  

  Laura Branigan
  • People
  • Want
  • Way

• Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Man
  • Reality
  • Patient

• In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
  • Credit
  • October

• Sir Plume, of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Nice

• 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
  • People
  • Why
  • Haters

• 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
  • People
  • Cool
  • Army

• 'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.

  

  Bobby Ghosh
  • Time

• 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
  • People
  • Why

• I could always improvise. Some of my teachers remember me standing in front of the class with a flower on my head, talking about photosynthesis. I'd stop and say, 'Is this working for any of you?' The kids were like, 'What is he doing?'

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Kids
  • Remember
  • Stop

• My children are lovely. They're perfect.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • Children
  • Perfect

• If every call to Christ and His righteousness is a call to suffering, the converse is equally - every call to suffering is a call to Christ, a promotion, an invitation to come up higher.

  

  Charles Bent
  • Up
  • Suffering

• Scientists have wonderfully explained the organization of the universe, but that's really all it claims to do, and I think it does that very successfully.

  

  Simon Conway Morris
  • Universe
  • Organization
  • Explained

• Whether you do stand-up comedy or write a story, you have a duty to deliver. As a comedian, you walk out on stage, and you have a minute to hook them, or they'll start booing. As a writer, it's very similar. A reader doesn't have time to say, 'I'll give him 50 pages, as it's not very good yet, but I hope it'll get better.'

  

  Mark Billingham
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• When you're having trouble making a decision you're making it too soon.

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Decision
  • Trouble

• Than Timoleon's arms require,And Tully's curule chair, and Milton's golden lyre.

  

  Mark Akenside