Philip Larkin Quotes

But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards

Philip Larkin

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• As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.

  

  Randy West
  • Feeling
  • Powerful
  • Audience

• Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Important
  • Feel
  • Stories

• I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Great
  • Building
  • Gossip

• I'm just someone who marvels at God.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Just
  • Someone

• My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Mind
  • Never
  • Accomplish

• In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Thinking
  • Independent

• I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Dog
  • Named

• Well, a younger woman is a type, but not necessarily a type for me. And what is a younger woman? I mean, I'm pretty old. Almost everyone is younger.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Pretty
  • Woman
  • Old

• A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Want
  • Reading
  • Mystery

• Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.

  

  Lars Ulrich Metallica
  • Music
  • Always
  • Hearts

• Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Life
  • Community
  • Greed

• My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.

  

  Ralph Norman
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Line

• Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • God
  • Human
  • Anger

• In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Christian
  • Opinion
  • Theatre

• I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Space

• When I first started performing, the only community that truly got what I was trying to do was the LGBTQ community.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Trying
  • Community
  • First

• Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • People
  • Life
  • Why

• My closest friends from Israel make fun of me for becoming an American, and my American friends make fun of how Israeli I am... I can't win.

  

  Alona Tal
  • Friends
  • American
  • Fun

• Because I don't believe music can be free unless it has something to be free from.

  

  Chuck Mangione
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Free

• I let the insults go by. A good swordsman doesn't pay attention to words in a fight.

  

  Ellen Kushner
  • Fight
  • Pay Attention
  • Insults

• Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • People
  • Art
  • motivation

• Sculpture should walk on the tips of its toes, unostentatious, unpretentious, and light as the spoor of an animal in snow. Art should melt into and even merge with nature itself. This is obviously contrary to painting and sculpture based on nature. By so doing, art will rid itself more and more of self-centredness, virtuosity and absurdity.

  

  Jean Arp
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Light

• But, o, photography! as no art is,Faithful and disappointing! That recordsDull days as dull, and hold-it smiles as frauds,And will not censor blemishes,Like washing-lines, and Hall's-Distemper boards

  

  Philip Larkin
  • Art
  • Photography