Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes

That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.

Geoffrey Chaucer

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• I find the stuff that is exciting to me are the films coming out of Taiwan and Iran and France. So I have the feeling I'm not making the films that American distributors want to make.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Feeling
  • Me
  • Films

• Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Experience
  • Poetry
  • Possible

• It's always fun teasing the person. When they ask if I'm gay, I say, 'Oh, I don't know.'

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Fun
  • Know
  • Gay

• I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • College
  • Myself
  • Confidence

• What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected little bubble. That's living the dream.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Love

• I babysat kids in a ShopRite, which is a grocery store. They had a babysitting center so that parents could bring their children while they shopped. It was awful. I also was not very good at keeping the kids calm.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Good
  • Children
  • Kids

• I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Nature

• I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts for a lot. But a lot of effective and interesting radio is based on one character who reacts to the world.

  

  Ira Glass
  • World
  • Good
  • Character

• Selling online is one channel, but it's not the only channel.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Only
  • Selling
  • Online

• Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Good
  • Space
  • Water

• I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • People
  • World
  • Know

• We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Innovation
  • Thanks
  • Genetic

• Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Me
  • Beauty
  • Roles

• I like a film that makes the audience feel like they are in the middle of life as it is moving, and in a way, they are catching up. They are thrown into things.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Life
  • Up
  • Moving

• Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Politics
  • Vocation
  • Hobby

• How do you trust a prime minister who said one thing before the elections and does exactly the opposite after the elections?

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • You
  • Trust
  • Said

• There's nothing anyone can do about Tiger Woods but look at his game and swoon.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Game
  • Look
  • Tiger

• The prime minister is not a private individual, but the leader of the Jewish State and the Jewish world as a whole.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • World
  • Leader
  • Individual

• Since the end of the Cold War, hegemonism has become increasingly unpopular.

  

  Li Peng
  • War
  • Cold

• Well, jobs are a great thing. You have to be a bit careful: If you raise the minimum wage, you’re encouraging labor substitution and you’re going to go buy machines and automate things - or cause jobs to appear outside of that jurisdiction. And so within certain limits, you know, it does cause job destruction. If you really start pushing it, then you’re just making a huge trade-off.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Jobs
  • Wage
  • Jurisdiction

• After a momentary silence spake Some Vessel of a more ungainly Make; 'They sneer at me for leaning all awry: What! did the Hand then of the Potter shake?'

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Hand
  • Silence

• The women's movement, not only here in the U.S., but worldwide, is bigger and stronger than ever before and in places where it has never been. It has arms. It has legs. And most importantly, it has heads.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Women
  • Movement
  • Heads

• It is dangerous to live in a secure world.

  

  Teju Cole
  • World
  • Dangerous
  • Secure

• That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.

  

  Geoffrey Chaucer