Matthew Prior Quotes

For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

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• I didn't even know I could sing or write songs. I didn't have that education. But people shouldn't think they can look down on someone like me, because I've had the same success as others, sold the same amount of records, if not more. They shouldn't think that because I'm just from 'The X Factor,' I'm not credible or respected as much.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Success
  • Education

• Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Think
  • Society
  • Black

• Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Men
  • Women
  • Experience

• I'm looking at a dead event and trying to give it new life. In a sense, I'm a taxidermist.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Looking

• Typecasting is something I have to be careful with, since I play myself on Geek & Sundry so much on my weekly show 'The Flog.' That's why I did 'Dragon Age: Redemption' last year, so I could do something a little more dramatic and hard-edged.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Why
  • Age
  • Play

• I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I like. It's got to have some vocal quality and some semblance of melody.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Quality
  • Like
  • Genre

• Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Human

• Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it's unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Men
  • Experience
  • Die

• I think the writing skills of actors are sometimes underestimated.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Skills

• For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Inspired
  • New York
  • Down

• I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Kids
  • Inspired
  • Movies

• During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Children
  • Job
  • Remember

• Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Important
  • Money
  • Happy

• My parents were hippies.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Parents
  • Were
  • Hippies

• The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • Small
  • Stage

• In order to keep himself at the top of his condition, to obtain complete mastery of all his powers and possibilities, a man must be good to himself mentally; he must think well of himself.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Good
  • Think
  • Man

• Part of the reason why people get radicalized is because they feel they are disenfranchised; that they not there; that they are bullied. But if they are represented, they can't go and say to themselves: 'Oh, this society hates us!'

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • People
  • Why
  • Society

• For all that Nature by her mother-wit Could frame in earth.

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Mother
  • Nature
  • Earth

• When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow - you are not understanding yourself.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • Freedom
  • Understanding
  • Shadow

• You know, now there is always half of the new Quebecers who are going to the English CEGEP. After that, often they are going to work in English. So for us, that is so important. We are a real minority in North America. Two per cent of the population are French-speaking. We have to protect this reality.

  

  Pauline Marois
  • Work
  • Important
  • Real

• I was in my early twenties. I was 22-ish. I graduated from college and went right into teaching. The first year, I taught in Indiana at a couple schools, and then I moved over to Chicago.

  

  Craig Robinson
  • College
  • Couple
  • Chicago

• It's sore, but that's what I expected. I knew that once I missed the road trip that I was going to try to go the first game back. We had a couple of days off and I had a chance to practice once, so I'll be ready to go tomorrow.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Game
  • Practice
  • Couple

• For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.

  

  Matthew Prior