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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.'
-
I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
-
I spend a lot of time balancing between faith and disbelief.
-
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.
-
I think that liberals need to grow up.
-
I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
-
I knew that in Hollywood they tend to pigeonhole talent, and when you experience a little success in one genre, their instinct is to keep you in that box.
-
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
-
Problems are cured by facing their cause.
-
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!
-
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.
-
For the rich, it's not about getting more stuff. It's about having the freedom to make almost any decision you want.
-
On airlines, so many passengers' faces are buried in John Grisham books, they could be complimentary copies for Grisham Airlines.
-
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.
-
The first discipline modernity’s originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.
-
Marketing is for companies who have sucky products.
-
People confuse being world No. 1 with winning a Major championship.
-
Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.
-
We are all born like Catholics, aren't we—in limbo, without religion, until some figure introduces us to God?
-
In the early days of picture-taking, the exposure shutter had to stay open for a long time, so you had to stay really still.
-
What the poet says has never been said before, but, once he has said it, his readers recognize its validity for themselves.
