Philip Larkin Quotes
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.Philip Larkin
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken -
If we don't end war, war will end us.
H. G. Wells -
I have spent a lot of time listening to people who are serving life sentences and getting to know them and the circumstances of their lives. I have never met anyone serving a long prison sentence who had anything close to what I could call a childhood; instead, the upbringings always - always - involve extreme situations of poverty and abuse.
Rachel Kushner -
It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.
Yani Tseng -
The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
Taylor Hackford -
I love doing girly stuff with my mum or with Sophia. I took Sophia and a couple of her friends to the Hello Kitty spa. They had chocolate facials and Hello Kitty mani-pedis. I put it on my Twitter and got lots of abuse for it, but I think it's just a nice girly thing.
Abbey Clancy
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
Nancy Carell -
The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.
O. J. Simpson -
We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
Ed Markey -
I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.
Hailey Gates -
The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
Dan Pink -
Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.
Naveen Andrews
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I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
Rachel Bilson -
I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
Yann Martel -
The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
D. B. Sweeney -
As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.
Garry Hynes -
My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.
Washed Out -
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
Warren Beatty
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Japanese people today think of money, just money: Where is our national spirit today? The Jieitai must be the soul of Japan. … The nation has no spiritual foundation. That is why you don’t agree with me. You will just be American mercenaries. There you are in your tiny world. You do nothing for Japan. … I salute the Emperor. Long live the emperor!
Yukio Mishima -
Writing at the 'American Spectator' in the 1990s, we threw everything we thought would stick at President Clinton.
David Brock -
There's different ways to approach music for sleeping. Things like white noise are functional, like a lullaby. This is more like an inquiry, a question about how music and sleep fit together.
Max Richter -
It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
Jack Levine -
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.
Philip Larkin