W. H. Auden Quotes
What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.
W. H. Auden
Quotes to Explore
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
Malcolm Gladwell
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
Danai Gurira
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It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
Barbara Cooney
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I'm not a tech guy. I'm looking at the technology with the eyes of my customers, normal people's eyes.
Jack Ma
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I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.
Taylor Swift
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
Viggo Mortensen
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I've loved men that wear un-ironed clothes, it doesn't make me fall out of love. When you love someone, you should see beyond their image. It just makes me want to iron their shirt. But once you love a person, they could wear a garbage bag!
Olga Kurylenko
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There was a writer in the '20s called Christopher Morley, who I remember a little bit of, who had some influence on me, but I couldn't tell you what it was.
Jack Vance
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For the rich, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.
T. Harv Eker
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On airlines, so many passengers' faces are buried in John Grisham books, they could be complimentary copies for Grisham Airlines.
Kate Clinton
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There remains the final reflection, how shallow, puny, and imperfect are efforts to sound the depths in the nature of things. In philosophical discussion, the merest hint of dogmatic certainty as to finality of statement is an exhibition of folly.
Alfred North Whitehead
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After all the work I've done, why should I suddenly be treated as a bona fide actress?
Eva Gabor
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The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.
C. S. Lewis
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I believe God wrote the Word in your essence. That's the genius of my Father. You are born knowing right from wrong. You don't need a book to tell you that!
Eddie Griffin
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Every single line on the Oscar show is negotiated. Unless you've been there, you have no idea how it is put together. It's like nothing else on earth. I'm writing a book about it, but I have to throw in my sexual escapades to make sure it sells.
Bruce Vilanch
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The helmed Cherubim,
And sworded Seraphim,
Are seen in glittering ranks with wings display'd.
John Milton
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What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.
W. H. Auden
