John Drinkwater Quotes

Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

John Drinkwater

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• Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • School
  • Character
  • You

• I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Girl
  • Amazing
  • Myself

• Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • May
  • Together
  • Man

• 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.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Life
  • Work
  • Positive

• Scotland is the best place in the whole world.

  

  Gail Porter
  • World
  • Best
  • Place

• The Wild West attracts cowboys. A sheriff is a good thing.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Good
  • WIld
  • Sheriff

• I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Movie
  • Fun
  • Passion

• If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Important
  • Food

• I don't want to hear about my death.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Want
  • Death
  • Hear

• I've been in government and politics my entire career, and while I try to keep a level head and a reasonable tone in my commentary, even I can lose my head sometimes and let anger bubble over and burst out. It feels gross, looks ugly, and leaves a lasting mark.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Career
  • Government
  • Politics

• We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Security
  • Now
  • Health care

• I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Me
  • Scared
  • Studio

• I go on walks during lunch breaks and travel with a fold-up yoga mat. I also love reading by candlelight at night.

  

  Rachel Boston
  • Up
  • Love
  • Night

• Look, natural gas, just like oil, is going to eventually go away. It's not renewable.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Like
  • Look
  • Oil

• With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there's no editing, so there's something more natural about the arc a character follows in a play. I think theater is more an actor's medium, whereas film is more a director's medium, because that's who controls the final feel of the film.

  

  Dan Futterman
  • Character
  • Nature
  • Think

• The economy is much bigger than the market. We will not be able to build a good economy - nor a good society - unless we look at the vast expanse beyond the market.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Good
  • Society
  • Economy

• We are all familiar with the dove carrying an olive branch as a peace offering. The jewelry I've created pays tribute both to the messenger's noble mission and gardens as a refuge of peace and tranquility.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Peace
  • Mission
  • Jewelry

• There is no getting around it; Congress is failing the American people.

  

  Mark Udall
  • People
  • American

• Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

  

  Devendra Banhart
  • Art
  • Date
  • Expiration

• I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Nature

• Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Stop
  • Desire
  • Wish

• I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness: and it is my wish and desire, that the laws may always be extensively accommodated to them, as a due regard for the protection and essential interests of the nation may justify and permit.

  

  George Washington
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Wish

• Poetry being the sign of that which all men desire, even though the desire be unconscious, intensity of life or completeness of experience, the universality of its appeal is a matter of course.

  

  John Drinkwater
  • Desire
  • Poetry
  • Universality