W. H. Auden Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
-
I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
-
To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
-
Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
-
I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
-
The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
-
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
-
It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
-
It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
-
We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
-
I've stayed focused on the job at hand representing the people of the 5th district... a voice for everyone rich or poor or male or female.
-
Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
-
I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
-
Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.
-
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
-
I didn't realize that winning the Olympics at age 14 automatically put me in the category of being a celebrity.
-
I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music.
-
Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.
-
No one wrote better about the sin of pride, the corruption of power and the redemption of love. I will miss you, Gabriel García Márquez.
-
His pear-shaped head, I could now see, was situated on top of a pear-shaped body, which his black gown caused to resemble a piece of fruit going to a funeral.
-
When you have somebody in a position of power show interest in you after you've kind of been down and out, that's a big boost.
-
Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.
-
Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
