John Clare Quotes
O how I feel, just as I pluck the flowerAnd stick it to my breast - words can't reveal;But there are souls that in this lovely hourKnow all I mean, and feel whate'er I feel.
John Clare
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The less lines, the better. I am the silent film actor, but not in a slapstick sort of way. Film is an image-based medium, so whatever you can say without the words is far more provocative and punctuating. If the lines are not funny or if they don't advance the story, sometimes it's hard. I hate talk in movies.
Callum Keith Rennie
The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.
Hari Kondabolu
If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.
Irwin Thomas
But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan Poe
Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
Walter Pater
To act: that is what the writer would like to be able to do, above all. To act, rather than to bear witness. To write, imagine, and dream in such a way that his words and inventions and dreams will have an impact upon reality, will change people's minds and hearts, will prepare the way for a better world.
J. M. G. Le Clezio
The daily quota I've set for myself is 500 words or approximately a page and a half double-spaced. Which isn't much, except that I'm extremely slow, extremely meticulous. 'Le mot juste' haunts me. On a good day, I will finally secrete the 500th word at about 5 o'clock, and I'll reward myself by going to Housing Works Bookstore to read.
Said Sayrafiezadeh
The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.
Octavio Paz
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
Harold S. Geneen
Originality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
When you make a movie independently, you raise the money beforehand, and then you make the movie kind of by yourself.
Taylor Lautner
I don't like to treat words and sounds like objects. You have to penetrate deeply into their meaning.
Eyvind Kang
I think Pilates is great, especially when you can do it with a trainer who keeps you on track.
Cate Blanchett
The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.
Lee Iacocca
Justice is the end of government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been, and ever will be, pursued until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.
Alexis de Tocqueville
It's our moral obligation, as well as, I believe, it is the government's obligation to take care of its people.
Marcia Fudge
O how I feel, just as I pluck the flowerAnd stick it to my breast - words can't reveal;But there are souls that in this lovely hourKnow all I mean, and feel whate'er I feel.
John Clare
