James Fenton Quotes
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.James Fenton
Quotes to Explore
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
Oscar Niemeyer -
Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
Samantha Power -
When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
Dakota Johnson -
'Mama's Family' was kind of like everyone's guilty pleasure.
Vicki Lawrence -
We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
Ibrahim Babangida
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
Rafael Palmeiro -
So they all went away from the little log house. The shutters were over the windows, so the little house could not see them go. It stayed there inside the log fence, behind the two big oak trees that in the summertime had made green roofs for Mary and Laura to play under.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
With the juice, I try to put a lot of different kinds of vegetables in there like zucchini, kale and broccoli. It looks scary, but it's so good for your body, and I just love the taste of it. It's so fresh; I love it!
Valentina Zelyaeva -
No one knows the cost of a defective product – don't tell me you do. You know the cost of replacing it, but not the cost of a dissatisfied customer.
W. Edwards Deming -
I think I have music in me! I had a scholarship to study singing at one point, and I've never really done anything about it. I've done some music on stage, but it's been a long time. It would be kind of fun.
Garret Dillahunt -
I loved being in Bombay. It was a pretty thrilling place to walk around and explore.
Dan Futterman
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
Natalie Cole -
I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.
Becky G -
The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
Brown Campbell -
My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.
Larry Elder -
There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.
Dan Barber -
We shared our father with the world.
Laila Ali
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Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new...program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.
Art Buchwald -
We are all souls, and what I have learnt so far is that while God is male, the souls created by Him are female, so I always had women as my theme, as they are dedicated to Him.
Kailash Kher -
The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
Dana Goodyear -
What I generally get from being in Africa is a sense of warmth and openness. As a stranger, you are always welcomed into people's homes and people are always offering you food. That generosity is incredibly touching.
Naomie Harris -
Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral.
James Fenton