Lascelles Abercrombie Quotes
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.Lascelles Abercrombie
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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
Patrick Macnee -
If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
Ira Glass -
It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
Randa Haines -
Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
Aaron Sorkin -
The whole gun debate needs to be infused with a discussion about manhood. It's frustrating to hear debates about gun rights vs. gun control, and yet very few people say what's hidden in plain sight: It's really a contest of meanings about manhood.
Jackson Katz -
That's what Kiss is all about - not just music, but entertainment, y'know? We're there to take you away from your problems, and rock and roll all night and party every day for those two hours you're at the concert.
Ace Frehley Kiss
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Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.
Malcolm Gladwell -
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
V. S. Naipaul -
I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
Dane Cook -
(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
Tallulah Bankhead -
I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
Kate Micucci
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
Barbara Cook -
A car is a killing machine. It's like waving a loaded gun. People don't realise how dangerous they are.
Victoria Pendleton -
There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
Wale -
Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
Ralph Steadman -
My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
You spend so much to buy these media net stories or full page ads to build perception... you can rather save this money and put it in the making or marketing of the film.
Kangana Ranaut
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
Kat Graham -
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
A. E. Housman -
Suddenly for no earthly reason I felt immensely sorry for him and longed to say something real, something with wings and a heart, but the birds I wanted settled on my shoulders and head only later when I was alone and not in need of words.
Vladimir Nabokov -
We never would have built ClassPass if I hadn't learned so much from the Classtivity experience.
Payal Kadakia -
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
Lascelles Abercrombie