Ruth Pitter Quotes
All in November's soaking mist We stand and prune the naked tree, While all our love and interest Seem quenched in the blue-nosed misery.Ruth Pitter
Quotes to Explore
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I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.
Natalie Portman -
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
Lascelles Abercrombie -
But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
Samuel Alexander -
I'm most excited about all of the non-currency uses of the block chain's ledger-ordering ability. I have no idea which ones will turn out to be successful, but I'm glad all of that experimenting is happening.
Gavin Andresen -
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. Somerset Maugham -
One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
Orison Swett Marden
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Decomposition, for most, starts when they leave the free, social, and uncorrupted college life for the solitary confinement of professions and nuclear families.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
switch (ref $@) OverflowError => warn 'Dam needs to be drained'; DomainError => warn 'King needs to be trained'; NuclearWarError => die;
Larry Wall -
For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
Alexander Pope -
Μέγας γὰρ Ἅιδης ἐστὶν εὔθυνος βροτῶνἔνερθε χθονός,δελτογράφῳ δὲ πάντ᾽ ἐπωπᾷ φρενί.
Aeschylus -
When I first started, I wasn't really aware of anything in the industry or aware of who I really was. I just put my music out there and tried to get as many people to hear it as possible. I hadn't really thought about the kind of music I wanted to make.
Charli XCX -
There is a definite loneliness in the game. Most people stay away from you since they think they're intruding upon your time. And after the ball game, when it's 11 o'clock and you want to eat dinner some place, the restaurants are closed.
Lou Brock
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I was actually in an iron lung for about a year, and then I was paralysed from the neck down for another year after that. So I spent a lotta time just lying down as a kid. And some of my earliest memories from then are of listening to the radio.
David Sanborn -
I wasn't always minimal. In the early days, I was laying it on as thickly as I could, trying very hard to get it right. But I found that the harder I tried, the more tired whatever it was I was working on looked. And then I grew tired of it as well.
Chris Raschka -
Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.
Buchi Emecheta -
And New Year's Eve is very, very important to me.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
Don't care about gods. Gods are irrelevant. What counts is people. What counts is having respect for each other.
Matthew Stover -
The effects of technology are always unpredictable. But they are not always inevitable.
Neil Postman
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I think people are into me because of my music choices and my musicality.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
I think about death a lot, I really do, because I can't believe I won't exist. It's the ego isn't it? I feel that I should retreat into a better form of Zen Buddhism than this kind of ego-dominated thing. But I don't know, I mean, I want to come back as a tree but I suspect that it's just not going to happen, is it?
Kate Atkinson -
Cuz this is what happens when bad meets evil We hit the trees till we look like Vietnamese people
Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil' -
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde -
All in November's soaking mist We stand and prune the naked tree, While all our love and interest Seem quenched in the blue-nosed misery.
Ruth Pitter