James Fenton Quotes
Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness.James Fenton
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
H. L. Mencken -
I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I once went to one of those parties where everyone throws their car keys into the middle of the room. I don't know who got my moped, but I drove that Peugeot for years.
Victoria Wood -
I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
Olly Murs -
Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
Ralph Adams Cram -
Venus favors the bold.
Ovid
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Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.
Mandy Patinkin -
We're on the verge of a financial collapse unless we balance the budget, and that means some really, really tough decisions.
Gary Johnson -
We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
Larry Dixon -
Old Etonians are the most charming people in the world. It's not just the analytic ability and the great education; there is a really easy confidence to them that draws people to them and makes their passage though the world a little easier.
Laura Wade -
The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
Gavin Newsom -
Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
Eartha Kitt
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
Taraji P. Henson -
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
D. H. Lawrence -
Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes.
Oliver Goldsmith -
Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways we would never permit an insect to suffer.
Jack Henry Abbott -
If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.
Namie Amuro -
Then after I saw the scoreboard that we were tied, I was really happy, because I really wanted to win.
Carly Patterson
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Like basketball, fashion is hard work.
Amar'e Stoudemire -
If you see me doing a new stand-up special, it probably means I've been out of work for a while.
Denis Leary -
Who included me among the ranks of the human race?
Joseph Brodsky -
Every successful person finds that great success lies just beyond the point when they're convinced their idea is not going to work.
Napoleon Hill -
The largest factor in predicting group intelligence was the equality of conversational turn taking; groups where a few people dominated the conversation were less collectively intelligent than those with a more equal distribution of conversational turn taking.
Alex Pentland -
Metrics are not a device for restraining the mad, any more than 'open form' or free verse is a prairie where a man can do all kinds of manly things in a state of wholesome unrestrictedness.
James Fenton