Rowan Williams (Rowan Douglas Williams) Quotes
In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.Rowan Williams
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I'm working now on a collection of Shakespearean sonnets, about 100 of them, that I may publish if anyone's interested. My take on life is a little different from the bard's.
Jack Prelutsky -
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
V. S. Naipaul -
Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
Randy Travis -
Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.
Harold H. Greene -
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
Kate Bernheimer
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Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Victor Hugo -
People don't know that when there is something running in my mind, I start smiling. If I'm angry, I smile and blush.
Hansika Motwani -
I don't suppose there is a more daring or more impudent rascal on earth than a good American beggar. It is always his boast that he has begged an ex-president, or the present one, and he claims to have received benefits from a number of well-known millionaires, actors, and prize-fighters.
W. H. Davies -
I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.
Ornette Coleman -
It's really fun to see a movie that you've heard about that's really good.
Parker Posey -
He had a bitter pain in his heart, for he knew that she was still a stranger to him and his hungry love was destined ever to remain unsatisfied.
W. Somerset Maugham
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The absurd and legendary devil is the enigma of the Church.
L. Frank Baum -
The colour, noise and festivity failed to elevate Carfilhiot’s mood; in fact-so he told himself-never had he witnessed so much pointless nonsense.
Jack Vance -
Most everybody's got seed to sowIt ain't always easy for a weed to grow, oh no.So he don't hoe the row for no one.Oh for sure he's always missing.And something is never quite right.Ah, but who would want to listen to youKissing his existence good night.
James Taylor -
Assad owes his continuation in power to the intervention of Russia in 2015 to prop up his regime.
Peter Bergen -
Ingredients should not read like a chemistry experiment!
Jessica Capshaw -
I was always fascinated by engineering. Maybe it was an attempt maybe to get my father's respect or interest, or maybe it was just a genetic love of technology, but I was always trying to build things.
James Cameron
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We have neglected our aerospace program, and I am detecting a lot of bipartisan support to continue that mission.
Luther Strange -
I've a great group of people, a great family behind me all the way, all the time. You cannot underestimate that.
Katie Taylor -
Just because someone looks old doesn't mean he or she is. The skin of some people who spend a lot of time outdoors seems to age very rapidly. Someone can look 80 or 90 and only be 40 to 50.
S. Jay Olshansky -
Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.
Paul Auster -
It's presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.
Joe Biden -
In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied.
Rowan Williams