James Fenton Quotes
One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.James Fenton
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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 -
All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Life is too short to blend in.
Paris Hilton -
The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
Fatema Mernissi -
There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it,you know that's what it is. It's magic.
Imran Amed
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham -
TV is still the place to grab the most eyeballs.
Patrick Whitesell -
I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
Victoria Pendleton -
The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
K. D. Lang -
I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
Patricia Polacco -
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
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
Sam Smith -
Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
Katha Pollitt -
I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.
Usain Bolt -
Vikings were pretty brutal, but also very educated people. They were salesmen, businessmen who started raiding when business wasn't good. That's why they had such great boats.
Baltasar Kormakur -
I'm a rock and roll singer.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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[Writing scripts] I'm not looking to jump in and make super mainstream movies. I still like to make movies that I like to see.
Rob Zombie -
We will admit that, out of the mud or sand which is found on the seashore or the beds of our rivers, at low water, shellfish or testaceous animals come forth, but it does not from thence by any means follow that they are produced without any regular course of generation.
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek -
If I give up my career as a skater simply because I fear I won't show my best performance, I would be really sorry later in life.
Kim Yuna -
Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.
James Broughton -
I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.
C. S. Lewis -
One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.
James Fenton