Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes

Who so shall telle a tale after a man, He moste reherse, as neighe as ever he can, Everich word, if it be in his charge, All speke he never so rudely and so large; Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe, Or feinen thinges, or finden wordes newe.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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• I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Music
  • Dream
  • Write

• Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Political
  • Audience
  • Tough

• Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• As a poet, I would always hear emcees come up to me and say, 'Yo, you should rap,' and I was like, 'No.' You know, the label was tough for me. I'm a poet. I was proud of that distinction between the two, not wanting to be the other.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Up
  • Me
  • Proud

• I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Time
  • Book
  • Friend

• You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • Religion
  • Disrespect

• I believe that we should be able to marry whom ever we choose. As long as both people are willing... I say go for it!

  

  Fefe Dobson
  • People
  • Believe
  • Long

• My home is attached to a study - in fact, my home is my study, and I have a little room to sleep in. I need to write looking onto the street or a landscape. Looking at reality from some distance gives me romantic visions.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Sleep

• Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. 'Use' is a dirty word only when there's an imbalance in the relationship.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Work
  • Men
  • Man

• The incentive that you give to your youth is going to be the make-or-break future of the country.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Country
  • Future
  • Youth

• When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.

  

  Facundo Pieres
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Powerful

• I'm very happy alone.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Happy
  • Alone
  • Very

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• What the customer demands is last year's model, cheaper. To find out what the customer needs you have to understand what the customer is doing as well as he understands it. Then you build what he needs and you educate him to the fact that he needs it.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Model
  • Doing
  • Year

• I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Think
  • Process
  • Information

• World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • World
  • Important
  • War

• It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • Live
  • Funny

• What I bring to the table is a huge enthusiasm and love for this stuff.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Love
  • Enthusiasm
  • Table

• To say what or where we came from has nothing to do with what or where we came from. We do not come from there any more, but only from each word that proceeds out of the mouth of the unnamed. And yet sometimes it is our only way of pointing to who we are.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Word
  • Where
  • Came

• Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Up
  • Start
  • Habit

• Just a ton of excitement, and the way the guys are together on this, they're looking at me to grow and to learn, and I'm looking at them to grow and to learn.

  

  Kurt Busch
  • Together

• People are always casting me for what they call my 'authority.'

  

  Linda Hunt
  • People

• time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Time
  • Future
  • Past

• Who so shall telle a tale after a man, He moste reherse, as neighe as ever he can, Everich word, if it be in his charge, All speke he never so rudely and so large; Or elles he moste tellen his tale untrewe, Or feinen thinges, or finden wordes newe.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer