Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
The art of life is to show your hand.
-
I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
-
I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
-
Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
-
When Paris has to pee, Paris has to pee!
-
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.
-
I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.
-
I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
-
Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.
-
I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.
-
I like old Disney films that have an edge to them.
-
It's great fun to play with a really good band.
-
Greening the globalised manufacturing and sourcing will be the single biggest help multinationals could make to the tough pollution control in China and other developing countries.
-
The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
-
There are no galley-slaves in the royal vessel of divine love - every man works his oar voluntarily!
-
Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.
-
The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
-
When I sang, I couldn't help making those little curves. People would say, 'Why don't you sing straight?' But I have always had to put something in.
-
When taxpayers are subsidizing low wages, people should be aware of that. We're subsidizing an economy. We're not subsidizing people. They are doing a hard day's work. When we're not rewarding work actively, there's something wrong with the system.
-
It gets worse and worse, it reinforces this idea of women as sexual objects, right; there's this idea of women as playthings for their amusement... that we are not meant to be treated with respect.
-
I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
-
You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real.
-
When we look at the flowers, we suddenly forget so many important things. We forget that all flowers die. We forget that winter will come again. We forget that nothing really endures and that, like the flowers that die at the end of the growing season, we'll join them in the cold ground.
-
Yet in our ashen cold is fire yreken.
