Isaac Rosenberg Quotes

Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

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• I'm very content.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Very
  • Content

• Why should I marry? One marries to have children, but I already have children! My nieces and nephews are my children.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Children
  • Why
  • Nephews

• Any musician - I would say 99% of musicians - needs some help along the way. Most people, even if they're self-produced, have someone else mix it, or they'll have someone else master the record. Inevitably, it's like somebody else's personality being put into your art.

  

  Washed Out
  • People
  • Art
  • Help

• New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• There's a side of fashion that's very analytical and data-oriented and methodical, but there's also a side of it that's just like magic. You can't quite put your finger on it, and you can't quite describe or prescribe a formula for how to get that magic exactly, but when you feel it and when you see it,you know that's what it is. It's magic.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Know
  • Fashion
  • Magic

• The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Great
  • Men
  • Great Men

• The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Business
  • Me
  • Goal

• In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Story
  • Because

• How dull it is to have people defining you.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • You
  • Dull

• There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them.

  

  Lactantius
  • Energy
  • Reflection
  • Intelligence

• People want opportunity so they can earn security.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Want
  • Opportunity

• Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • View
  • Beliefs

• Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.

  

  Abu Bakar Bashir
  • Today
  • Media
  • Sheep

• It's probably fair to say that the ratio of time our Connector developers spend in the debugger versus the Emacs buffer is higher than with most software.

  

  Nat Friedman
  • Time
  • Software
  • Fair

• I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.

  

  Vanessa Brown
  • Important
  • Think
  • Brain

• I'm a rock and roll singer.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll
  • Roll

• The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Life
  • War
  • Death

• Work done illegally outdoors or without permission feels like pure freedom to me. I understand how it can upset many in our society, but in the bigger picture, it is ultimately about freedom. We are living in a time where public space has become a commodity for corporations to control and dictate what is seen and heard.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• I don't care about being a literary personality - that doesn't appeal to me, especially because the literary world doesn't appeal to me. I actually don't feel like I even belong in it. If this was high school, I would be sitting with the Goths, looking at everyone, being like, 'Whatever.'

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • World
  • School
  • High

• I believe that unless it's a scene where I'm alone, then of course I could do what I want but I think good acting is about what happens between people, not on your face and my face.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Acting
  • Face
  • I Believe

• As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • World
  • Way
  • Books

• Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Way
  • Used
  • Conclusion

• The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Real
  • Problem
  • Serious

• Nobody ever told me what to read, or ever put poetry in my way.

  

  Isaac Rosenberg
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