Geoffrey Chaucer Quotes
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
Laura Riding -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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
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Selling online is one channel, but it's not the only channel.
J. B. Pritzker -
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 -
I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
Zoe Lister-Jones -
Beauty was never really my trip. Maybe those roles are attracted to me?
Natasha Lyonne -
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 -
Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
Larry Flynt
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How do you trust a prime minister who said one thing before the elections and does exactly the opposite after the elections?
Kapil Sibal -
There's nothing anyone can do about Tiger Woods but look at his game and swoon.
Dan Jenkins -
There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree.
Barack Obama -
It was the most enthralling episode in my life
Edward Heath -
Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.
Alcuin -
I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort. So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
Clarice Lispector
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
Gary Lineker -
My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
W. Somerset Maugham -
An education program is, by definition, a societal program. Work should be done at school, rather than at home.
Francois Hollande -
That field hath eyen, and the wood hath ears.
Geoffrey Chaucer