W. H. Auden Quotes
In the late Middle Ages there were, no doubt, many persons in monasteries and convents who had no business there and should have been out in the world earning an honest living, but today it may very well be that there are many persons trying to earn a living in the world and driven by failure into mental homes whose true home would be the cloister.W. H. Auden
Quotes to Explore
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
Irvin Kershner -
I was 21 in 1968, so I'm as much a child of the '60s as is possible to be. In those years the subject of religion had really almost disappeared; the idea that religion was going to be a major force in the life of our societies, in the West anyway, would have seemed absurd in 1968.
Salman Rushdie -
Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
Jack Youngblood -
Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
Tamara Tunie -
Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.
Olivia Wilde -
My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work.
Nate Powell
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
Natasha Leggero -
Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
Edgar Wright -
My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
Rafael Nadal -
Every non-Marxist economic theory that treats human and non-human productive inputs as interchangeable assumes that the dehumanisation of human labour is complete. But if it could ever be completed, the result would be the end of capitalism as a system capable of creating and distributing value.
Yanis Varoufakis
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I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.
Kate Bernheimer -
I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
Gary Coleman -
I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
Wavy Gravy -
Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
Abu Bakr -
I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
Ted Williams -
I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
Edgar Ramirez
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After three failed marriages, I know what its like to be replaced. So thats kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today. ... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like hes going to be a bust in Detroit.
Terry Bradshaw -
I never let schooling interfere with my education.
Mark Twain -
As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.
Dwight Yoakam -
I hope readers will think that 'The Thing About Life' is beautifully patterned, a tapestry.
David Shields -
There is no economy in having one operation produce a part and another separate the good ones from the bad ones.
W. Edwards Deming -
In the late Middle Ages there were, no doubt, many persons in monasteries and convents who had no business there and should have been out in the world earning an honest living, but today it may very well be that there are many persons trying to earn a living in the world and driven by failure into mental homes whose true home would be the cloister.
W. H. Auden