Philip Larkin Quotes

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Philip Larkin

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• If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • You
  • Everyone
  • Hot

• I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Want
  • Career
  • Kind

• When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • End
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  • Nuclear Weapons

• I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
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• The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
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  • Change
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• Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Man
  • Faith
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• Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• My mom, she's a great cook. You know, pirogue, borscht. I love borscht, and I love Pilemeni, meat dumplings.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Great
  • Know
  • Mom

• I still don't know why, exactly, but I do think people can have a spiritual connection to landscape, and I certainly did in Iceland.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • People
  • Why
  • Think

• Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Worth
  • Shooting
  • Dope

• I see ghosts.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • See
  • Ghosts
  • I See

• I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Care
  • Financial
  • Thanks

• My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Real
  • Mother
  • Myself

• I allowed Rick Santorum to express views and ideas that the American people never would have had expressed.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • American
  • Ideas

• What you want if you're asking that question is a specific time in your life to come back to you, and that will never happen. You will never be 15 years old again. I could write, verbatim, another Take This To Your Grave, and you won't feel the same way. It's not going to mean anything to you because it wouldn't mean anything to me.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Life
  • Time
  • Question

• You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Mother
  • Giving
  • Attention

• I can imagine myself as an old man writing music for choir or orchestra. I don't know that I'll be touring six months out of the year in a rock band when I'm 60.

  

  Bryce Dessner The National
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Band

• As kids, we say stupid things, and because there's not a record of it, nobody is going to give you a hard time at 30 years old about something you said or did when you were 8 years old. Online, you have all these social networks that are moving to a state of persistent identity, and in turn, we're sacrificing the ability to be youthful.

  

  Christopher Poole
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Moving

• The servants of Mary are as sure of getting to Paradise as though they were already there. Who are they who are saved and who reign in Heaven? Surely those for whom the Queen of Mercy intercedes ... The clients of Mary will necessarily be saved.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Heaven
  • Mercy
  • Paradise

• There's a tendency, when the offspring of a famous person does something notable, to define them by their more-famous parent.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Person
  • Famous
  • Parent

• Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.

  

  Sallust
  • Ambition
  • Blood
  • Gratitude

• What I didn't realize until much later, in hindsight, was I had subconsciously been choosing projects where the woman was in charge of her own destiny.

  

  Geena Davis
  • Destiny

• I have a daughter who, when younger, possessed no barrier between her emotional self and the outside world. Her emotional insides spilled out all over, and, especially when I was sleep-deprived and probably a little paranoid, this really threatened me. It was as if she were embodying and expressing the insecurities and freaked-outedness I never express, and which I've learned over the years to keep hidden.

  

  Heidi Julavits
  • Daughter
  • Outside World
  • Emotional self

• Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

  

  Philip Larkin