W. H. Auden Quotes

The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.

W. H. Auden

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• I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Know
  • Born
  • Died

• In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Help
  • Safety

• I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Innocent
  • Too Much
  • Too

• Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Like
  • Always
  • Thought

• The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Work
  • Future
  • Successful

• Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.

  

  Carly Schroeder
  • Up
  • Day
  • Amazing

• We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Think
  • Want
  • Cloud

• Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need to spend more money per head of population on welfare support in Scotland.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Country
  • Money
  • Support

• Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Architecture
  • Logic
  • Often

• I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Pretty

• We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • Up
  • Week
  • Out

• You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Time
  • Writing

• The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Mind
  • Food
  • Body

• I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Myself
  • Always
  • Journey

• Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • People
  • Life
  • Power

• I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Film
  • Years
  • Photography

• Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.

  

  Sam Elliott
  • World
  • Man
  • Comedy

• For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • World
  • Sea

• My mother couldn't take having three boys. She was extremely jumpy, to say the least. Any noise startled her. The sound of a pot dropping on the ground could make her hit the ceiling.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • She
  • Mother

• [I wish no one ever asked me ] "Did you sign that petition implicating the Bush Administration in 9/11?" Because I never signed it, and I hate being vilified for a controversial idea I never espoused.

  

  Van Jones
  • Hate
  • Wish
  • Ideas

• Look, boys, it ever strike you that the world not real at all? It ever strike you that we have the only mind in the world and you just thinking up everything else? Like me here, having the only mind in the world, and thinking up you people here, thinking up the war and all the houses and the ships and them in the harbour. That ever cross your mind?

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• As you get older, you get tired of doing the same things over and over again, so you think Christmas has changed. It hasn't. It's you who has changed.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Older
  • Same Things

• A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Man
  • Garment
  • Scrape

• The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.

  

  W. H. Auden