John Crowe Ransom Quotes

Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

John Crowe Ransom

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• I am always early to work but sometimes late to other things.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Work
  • Early
  • Late

• I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Power
  • Artist
  • Musician

• I've waited so long to get to this point, and I'm so happy to be making my first album. I want to be a performer and an entertainer.

  

  Fleur East
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Want

• I said if I have a No. 1, I'll do a naked photo shoot! I'm not sure a lot of people would like to see that, but it was more to the fans, really. Every gig I do, they try to get me to take my clothes off, so it's a promise to them - if I get a No. 1, I'll happily do a naked shoot.

  

  Olly Murs
  • People
  • Me
  • Promise

• I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.

  

  Bai Ling
  • You
  • Chinese
  • Follow

• I hated school because I liked to daydream and the system tried to stop me from that.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • School
  • Me
  • Stop

• The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Different
  • Way
  • Focus

• I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Political
  • Relationship
  • Suffering

• When I was blonde I was perceived as an innocent and sweet young girl.

  

  Samantha Mathis
  • Girl
  • Sweet
  • Young

• Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Men
  • Sympathy
  • Generosity

• There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence.

  

  Gail Collins
  • City
  • Question
  • Violence

• One of my school friends' parents owned a minigolf course, and a bunch of us kids would play there all day in the summer. Two-under deuces was a good score.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• I said I didn't want to spend most of my life in Holidays Inns, but I've checked and they've all been redecorated. They're marvelous places to stay and I've thought it over and that's where I'd like to be.

  

  Walter F. Mondale
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Holidays

• When I was in high school, we used to do 15-20 hours of dance per week, and then when you graduate, you don't have that much time on your hands anymore.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Time
  • School
  • High

• The Premier League is a very strong league. Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool all have a high quality. But those who know me also know that I always want to win titles. And I think that Manchester United are a club which can win titles.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • High
  • Strong
  • Me

• I'd like to make music for as long as I can; it feels like something I need to do.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Music
  • Long
  • Need

• A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss, Goethe said; a correct answer, Gertrude would have said, is like a slap in the face.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Kiss

• Don't be a victim; if you want to make movies, make movies.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Want
  • You
  • Movies

• 'In Prague, big red posters were put up on which one could read that seven Czechs had been shot today. I said to myself, 'If I had to put up a poster for every seven Poles shot, the forests of Poland would not be sufficient to manufacture the paper.'

  

  Hans Frank
  • Up
  • Today
  • Red

• If you're lying, you're lying.

  

  John C. Maxwell

• What I enjoy most with acting is when it's a good scene with one or two other actors, and you feel a strong connection, and you don't know how you're going to respond, and everybody is listening to each other and getting affected by each other, and even though you've rehearsed it many times, it feels like it's happening right now.

  

  Joel Kinnaman
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Listening

• It is strange when you're a loser in college, which I was, to then get your own show.

  

  Topher Grace
  • College
  • Show
  • Strange

• Too much is demanded by the critic, attempted by the poet.

  

  John Crowe Ransom