John Drinkwater Quotes
For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.
Quotes to Explore
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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When I first started cooking, I was very much an intuitive cook when it came to taste, but that didn't mean I didn't want to know why some things worked and why others did not. My interest took me to culinary school.
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The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.
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Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.
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We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
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I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.
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Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
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History will treat me right.
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I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.
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Read books. They are good for us.
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The Spirit is like new wine, see the disciples all, Like men inebriate, swept away and enthralled By both its heat and strength; thus it remains true still That the disciples had of sweetest wine their fill
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Waitin' on the pizzle, the dizzle and the shizzle G's to the bizzack, now ladies here we gizzo.
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I was a bit scared because I came from the acting world. There was a fear that people would think of me kind of as a joke. But really, people think of me as a country artist who can act. That's my favorite compliment.
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I've always been this strong-willed person and I've always been in love with acting.
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When you are really in love, you become vulnerable, and insecurities come out of nowhere.
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Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.
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A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
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Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.
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Successful strategic vision lay in the fact that we visualized the retail business to be much bigger, ahead of what others thought it to be.
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
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Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections — whether from diffidence or some other instinct.
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For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.
