James Fenton Quotes

English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.

James Fenton

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• While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Culture
  • Church
  • Moving

• So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • People
  • Time
  • Business

• All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Work
  • Transform
  • Rural

• Do not suffer pain and torment without reason. Somebody All-Powerful and All-Compassionate owns everything. Rely on His Power and do not accuse His Compassion. Renounce grief and anxiety ad accept relief. Be rid of your troubles and find serenity.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Power
  • Pain
  • Powerful

• People should know what they want, not just what they don't want.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Want
  • Know

• I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Political

• I miss my family and friends from Cali a lot. I also miss late-night business hours, hiking in the Sierra Nevada, and house boating in Gold Country. But in Ohio, housing is cheaper, everything is green year-round, and we get glorious thunderstorms. In California, I lived in a place that was infested with black widow spiders.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Country
  • Family
  • Business

• I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Night
  • Day
  • Fool

• One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Mind
  • Wrong
  • Injury

• We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Think
  • Revolution
  • Risks

• The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Money
  • Passion
  • Destiny

• Put paying your dues and all that puts so much into being a success. You have an understanding of what it's about, being on your own for three or four years and living day to day on $3, or living in an apartment with no electricity.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • Success
  • Day
  • Understanding

• I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Business
  • Way
  • Always

• I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.

  

  T-Pain
  • Car
  • Made
  • Radio

• What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • Always
  • Write
  • Some

• There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Men
  • Man
  • Living

• During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.

  

  Dana Rohrabacher
  • Future
  • Privilege
  • Citizen

• I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial.

  

  Eddie Slovik
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Take

• Take away hatred from some people, and you have men without faith.

  

  Eric Hoffer
  • People
  • Men
  • Faith

• The day was made for laziness, and lying on one's back in green places, and staring at the sky till its brightness forced one to shut one's eyes and go to sleep.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Sleep
  • Forced
  • Laziness

• In competition, when I start performance I try not to think about all the pressure from the fans. But, I got a lot of energy from them always. They make me more perfect.

  

  Kim Yuna
  • Energy
  • Perfect
  • Competition

• In most men there exists a poet who died young, whom the man survived.

  

  Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve
  • Poetry
  • Poet
  • Survived

• Whether I'm a bit of an old soul or not, I am who I am, and that doesn't change, whether I'm with adults or with my friends.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
  • Friends
  • Soul
  • Change

• English poetry begins whenever we decide to say the modern English language begins, and it extends as far as we decide to say that the English language extends.

  

  James Fenton
  • Poetry
  • English