Eugene Field Quotes

There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine, A certain inspitation which I cannot well define.

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• I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.

  

  Obie Trice
  • Sometimes
  • Goals
  • Rapping

• I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.

  

  Walter Salles
  • Years
  • Fiction
  • Maybe

• I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Read
  • Paper

• Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Language

• There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Failure
  • Difference
  • Between

• My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Children

• The animal is ignorant of the fact that he knows. The man is aware of the fact that he is ignorant.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Ignorant

• Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).

  

  Sam Harris
  • Science
  • Questions
  • Limit

• Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Live
  • Places

• After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Family
  • Myself

• Stay externally focused - on your customers - and focus internally when you have to hire.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • You
  • Focus
  • Customers

• Therefore, if the gods are immortal and eternal, what need is there of the other sex, when they themselves do not require succession, since they are always about to exist?

  

  Lactantius
  • Always
  • Sex
  • Need

• I feel for the players.

  

  Vanna White
  • Feel
  • Players
  • I Feel

• The creativity of childhood was often surrendered amid feelings of unworthiness. So the idea that others are demanding to be given it back - to be 'taught' - is disturbing.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Childhood
  • Idea
  • Creativity

• Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Fear
  • Insecurity

• Choose again.

  

  Dan Simmons

• The first idea is an imagined thing.

  

  Wallace Stevens

• Imams and muftis and kathis sat here on cushions, turbaned elders who had risen above the squalor of the flesh. The heat was tamed by wide-eyed boys with feathery fans. One of the muftis much admired one of these boys, and he stroked his buttocks with a gentle hand. The smell of the holy was wafted towards entering Bonaparte, who said with care:

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Hand

• When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Women
  • Sometimes
  • Speak

• We have a sufficient political class, and the military doesn't have to get involved in high national office. The days of doing that, post-Civil War and post-World War II, are gone.

  

  Jack Keane
  • World
  • War
  • High

• The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Great
  • Culture
  • Small

• Animals are not cute. They are disturbing. Pigs do eat their young. Actually, I hate pigs. I just happen to have some who are friends of mine.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • Friends
  • Hate
  • Cute

• As Americans, we are proud that we are a country that people run to, not from.

  

  Donna Brazile
  • People
  • Country
  • Proud

• There is a glorious candor in an honest quart of wine, A certain inspitation which I cannot well define.

  

  Eugene Field
  • Wine
  • Define
  • Candor