James Fenton Quotes
'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as 'love' and as 'guv' - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while.
Quotes to Explore
-
In the wake of the United Kingdom's vote to 'Brexit' the E.U., we Europeans will indeed have to rethink how our Union works; but we know very well what we need to work for. We know what our principles, interests, and priorities are.
-
Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
-
The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
-
We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
-
Keep your debt low, and ask, Can your operational expertise make an impact? Then you're taking away a lot of the risk.
-
If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
-
Of course we've been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That's the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes - waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
-
I'm a person that just likes to speak the truth, and I don't understand why in America it's such a big deal that we won't read the Koran and we won't look at history.
-
You take the good with the bad and try not to listen to everything said about you because you know it's not good.
-
Rob Neill has a deep appreciation for the law and the role it can play in the lives of families. Rob's sincere desire to serve and his impressive experience will make him the kind of judge who will change lives and impact families in a positive way.
-
Stereotypical vegetarian food looks gray and brown.
-
The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
-
I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
-
When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
-
I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
-
No, but there are people I grew up with from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains that would give any person on 'Justified' a run for their money in the scary department.
-
I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.
-
When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.
-
When I try to be perfect, it makes me not have fun.
-
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
-
Once you’ve tasted freedom, it stays in your heart and no one can take it. Then, you can be more powerful than a whole country.
-
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard (p. 244).
-
Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.
-
'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as 'love' and as 'guv' - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while.
