W. H. Auden Quotes

Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

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• I was raised to believe that New England is the best place on the planet.

  

  Abigail Johnson
  • Believe
  • Best
  • Place

• My father in the film - which we probably haven't seen in previous movies, and in British Asian movies you could probably count on one hand - he says exactly why, actually why he's frightened for his daughter. He came to this country, England, and had a bit of a crappy time.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • Time
  • Country
  • Why

• Coming to Nashville has been so motivating and inspirational. Just watching people live and breathe their music and create something that they can feel from start to finish.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • People
  • Music
  • Live

• When I went to see Kansas and Queen and Styx, I don't even remember the music. But I know what I saw.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Remember
  • Queen

• I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• I spent a lot of time with the LAPD. I spent six weeks training, weapons training, ride-alongs, surveillance, interviewing them, in all different departments and divisions.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Time
  • Different
  • Training

• So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

  

  Barbara Broccoli
  • Up
  • Time
  • Father

• I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Time
  • Waiting
  • Happen

• The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Done
  • Job
  • Best

• Today, music is great for entertainment, but it is lacking soul; it's lacking substance, and it's difficult to find good stuff. There are too many corporate interests. It's not about the actual music because it's about the corporation, and music just becomes part of a package.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• Every time we consume meat, eggs or dairy foods, we contribute to ecological devastation and the wasteful misuse of resources on a global scale.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Time
  • Meat
  • Eggs

• I time everything. I'm a scientist at heart.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Everything

• We do need to have a little bit more protection and sensibility around pensioners. They are remarkable. They gave so much. We need to make sure we do our best by them.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Best
  • Need
  • Protection

• I'd always loved strings. When I was in high school and saw strings playing on stage, an orchestra or a symphony, all those bows moving at the same time... wow.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• I've read a couple of things that I was sort of close to having a nervous breakdown. But I don't think I was. I was very, very tired. It was a really difficult time.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Time
  • Think
  • Couple

• I have a lot of connection to Pataudi. I have spent a lot of time there and I love the place very much, but at no point, do I consider myself a Nawab.

  

  Saif Ali Khan
  • Time
  • Love
  • Myself

• I have been blessed with roles that allow me to express something very personal at a specific time in my life. I seek them out; acting is my therapy.

  

  Victoria Clark
  • Life
  • Time
  • Blessed

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• Every time I'm home, it's like a vacation, but I've been playing in bands since I was 11. I guess our goals were always small goals. It started off my goal was just to be in a band. Then it was to have a drummer that would show up.

  

  Brittany Howard
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• I even opened a nightclub called Evonne's.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Nightclub

• The passive acceptance of exclusionary words and deeds is not okay.

  

  Chris Sacca
  • Words
  • Acceptance

• Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents and sampled two different ways of life.

  

  Colleen McCullough
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• When people put labels on us, it doesn't always enclose everything that we are. So even though I'm proud to be Somali, I'm proud to be American, at the end of the day, I'm still Halima, and I take things from both sides and combine them, and I make my own little category. I'm me!

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • American
  • Day

• Music is the best means we have of digesting time.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Music
  • Best