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

• I think I have lived in every part of L.A. except downtown. Everywhere from Topanga Canyon to Toluca Lake.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Think
  • Lake
  • Lived

• 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

• I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.

  

  Utah Phillips
  • Power
  • Friends
  • Fame

• 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

• Coaching the Bruins is like going bear hunting with a butter knife.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Coaching
  • Hunting
  • Bear

• Enough about me. What do you think about me?

  

  Bette Midler
  • Thinking
  • Enough

• The world will figure out what we really believe, by watching what we actually do.

  

  Bob Goff
  • Believe
  • Watching

• What has become clear to me is that it is not the inherent nature of being gay that causes such a reduced life; it is, rather, the social circumstances around being gay: the perceptions of it and the cultural norms that it is said to violate. As some of those norms have changed, I have been able to be gay, to have a marriage, to have a family, and to have - if there is wood to knock on - a fortunate and happy life.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Life
  • Family
  • Happy

• There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • People
  • Pleasure
  • Result

• Having music in the schools, having art in the schools, having art in your life, should not be heroic. It should be every day. Having things we've paid for years ago and that we depend on kept up - our schools, our political institutions - should not be a heroic act. It should be part of our daily citizenship. The idea that we had to do this incredibly exhausting, two-year-long, very expensive, labor intensive, community-based action, is, one the one hand unbelievably great, and, on the other hand, really depressing.

  

  David Lang
  • School
  • Political
  • Depressing

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

  

  W. H. Auden