James Russell Lowell Quotes

There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge,Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.

James Russell Lowell

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• Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Want
  • Me
  • Admit

• You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Work
  • Father
  • Know

• I first went to India because of my interest in yoga, hoping to go to the Iyengar Centre in Pune for a while. That didn't work out, but I ended up on a beach in Goa, writing.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writing

• As you grow older, your music begins to mature and grow older along with you.

  

  Zendaya
  • Music
  • You
  • Grow

• If you look at the human condition today, not everyone is well fed, has access to good medical care, or the physical basics that provide for a healthy and a happy life.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Life
  • Good
  • Happy

• But all that being said about modulation, if you're serving people delicious food, they won't complain.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Food
  • Said

• A mind that has confronted ruin for years Is half or more a ruined mind.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Mind

• That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present.

  

  Annie Besant
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Present

• Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Good
  • Water

• The town horse, used to gaudy trappings, no doubt despises the work of his country brother; but yet, now and again, there comes upon him a sudden desire to plough.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Work
  • Country
  • Desire

• Quien se queda mucho consigo mismo, se envilece.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Good
  • Free

• I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • Men

• Globalism began as a vision of a world with free trade, shared prosperity, and open borders. These are good, even noble things to aim for.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • World
  • Good
  • Free

• As an artist, you never want to write the same song again, you always want to challenge yourself to writing in a different way.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Song

• I love chicken. But, like a lot of chefs and cooks, I get tired of preparing it the same way.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Tired

• I spend my working life pretending to be someone else.

  

  Andrew Lincoln
  • Life

• Different strokes, for different folks.

  

  Sly Stone
  • Different

• I don't look for bliss, just contentment.

  

  Alison Krauss
  • Contentment

• Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.

  

  Gabe Kaplan
  • Miss
  • Type
  • Maybe

• I had an agenda. It was a very smooth transition.

  

  Frank Press

• How small of all that human hearts endure,That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!Still to ourselves in every place consigned,Our own felicity we make or find.With secret course, which no loud storms annoy,Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Small
  • Joy

• I was probably 16.I played - I tried to play these songs that I had written. And, this was a common theme when I was younger: I would write a song about somebody, and they would come to my show. I wouldn't be able to play the whole thing, because, there would be some giant, loaded secret coming up in like, the third verse, or something.

  

  Caitlin Rose
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Song

• There comes Poe, with his raven, like Barnaby Rudge,Three-fifths of him genius and two-fifths sheer fudge.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • Raven