W. H. Auden Quotes

One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

W. H. Auden

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• I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • Work
  • Why
  • Kids

• I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Music
  • Want
  • Movies

• People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • Up
  • Power

• I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Up
  • School
  • Day

• Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

  

  Larry Page
  • Believe
  • Business
  • History

• An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

  

  Ice T
  • Control
  • Party
  • Rock

• I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Job
  • Want
  • Day

• It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Dream
  • Man
  • Woman

• Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.

  

  Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
  • Desire
  • Government
  • Progress

• I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.

  

  Ilya Yashin
  • Leave
  • Here
  • Predict

• In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • Home
  • Feeling

• When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Writing
  • Deal
  • Islam

• The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Art
  • Age

• Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Good
  • Space

• Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • You
  • Opinion
  • Judgment

• Remember daydreams? No, of course you don't. How could you? Three new text messages have just arrived, and another three, in a moment, will go out.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Remember
  • Moment
  • Text

• I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Strength
  • Gain
  • Surroundings

• My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically - and destructively - demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Science
  • Action
  • Environmental

• Daft Punk wouldn't have normally fit into anything that was pop on the radio, but they just did it.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Anything
  • Radio
  • Punk

• As an actress you can participate, you can be a co-author, help the director. But I always wanted to be able to make the big decisions.

  

  Valeria Golino
  • Help
  • Always
  • Author

• Lasting peace and security in Iraq and Afghanistan will be achieved when we establish the conditions for democratic, economically viable nations.

  

  John Warner
  • Security
  • Nations
  • Conditions

• In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Real
  • Think
  • Words

• If you do nothing, if a mother doesn't come for care, if she breastfeeds her baby, the chances of the baby getting HIV are about 40%. So it's about the difference between 40% and zero. This is almost totally preventable. But it requires mothers coming for care and getting the medicines they need, and getting the education and support they need.

  

  Annie Lennox Eurythmics
  • Mother
  • Education
  • Chances

• One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Feel
  • Hell
  • Walk