Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes

Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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• Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Language
  • Literature
  • Communication

• When I eat something like vegetable bibimbap, I get that warm and fuzzy feeling of eating stuff that I grew up with.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Eating

• Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Enemy
  • Angry
  • Army

• 'Newsies' is definitely aerobic! The boys have to do a lot more than I do in the show, but for 'King of New York,' the big Act Two tap number, I have to be warmed up or I will hurt myself.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Hurt

• Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days. The furnishings, the fabrics, the furniture, the appliances, the TV, and all the electronic equipment - we're living inside commercials.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Home
  • Kind
  • Presentation

• I went over to shoot for six days. It turned out to be ten days, very nicely so. A little money.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Money
  • Over
  • Six

• We're trying to make money, trying to add a zero onto our net worth.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Add

• If we misuse the gift of sexuality, we're going to suffer the consequences, and I firmly believe we are suffering the consequences.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Believe
  • Suffering
  • Gift

• The objectification of females is not a good thing! Not every rapper does this, but when the lyrics focus solely on the strip club, 'poppin' bottles' and how many girls they can 'tap,' it distorts what kids are learning. I think if there was more of a female presence in hip hop we could break up the monotony. It's all about balance.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Up
  • Good
  • Kids

• Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy legislation is first and foremost about creating good jobs. In Florida, where solar and biofuel and wind and so many other areas are important and so many in the private sector continues to pursue these, we need policies that will encourage that.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Good
  • Important
  • Energy

• The forties are the time when you begin to take notice of certain aches and pains. Your body and brain behave in inexplicable ways: Less hair on your head, more in your ears and nostrils. More memories in the bank, less synaptic firepower with which to access them. Gravity has started to show its inexorable pull.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Time
  • Brain
  • Hair

• I had seen a Pfizer's pilot plant in 1965 and decided that, 'I'll build a Pfizer.' If not Pfizer, I have built Dr Reddy's, which is no less respectable.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • Plant
  • Seen
  • Pilot

• Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Fearless
  • Risks
  • Optimism

• By anguish which made pale the sun, I hear Him charge his saints that none Among his creatures anywhere Blaspheme against Him with despair, However darkly days go on.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Sun

• I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; and I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Rest

• You're taught that it's not very likely for you to become successful... that odds are you're going to be a struggling artist for the rest of your life.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Life
  • Rest

• In his 30 years of broadcasting and publishing fiction, Garrison Keillor has set the laugh bar pretty high.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • High
  • Pretty

• A currency designed for long-term storage and investment doesn't do so well at encouraging transactions and exchange in the moment.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Long
  • Encouraging

• My dad and mom divorced when I was around ten, and I didn't live with him after that, though he was close by and we saw each other weekly. I wasn't really aware that he was a writer; I didn't start reading his writing until I was about fifteen. It occurred to me then that my dad was kind of special; he's still one of my favorite writers.

  

  Andre Dubus III
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Dad

• Young girls look to me as a role model and think I crash diet to keep slim. That's not true, I always eat properly.

  

  Denise Van Outen
  • True
  • Model

• I think my all time favourite song would be between 'Slow Dancing in a Burning Room' and 'Dreaming with a Broken Heart' by John Mayer.

  

  Shawn Mendes
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Song

• I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Sports
  • Red
  • Professional

• It was a little tired, but it?s coming back.

  

  Cole Hamels
  • Tired
  • Coming Back

• Nowhere so busy a man as he than he, and yet he seemed busier than he was.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer