Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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• I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I started my business at the age of twenty three and I didn't want one more boss telling me what to do. So I was motivated simply because I didn't want a boss.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Work
  • Business
  • Age

• Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Time
  • America
  • Justice

• Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.

  

  Pat Barker
  • Know
  • Moral
  • Difficult

• Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • World
  • Like
  • Acting

• There are fans of Twenty20 cricket, and we need to ensure that we give them the cricket they want to see. We need to keep Test cricket alive, because there is a section of fans who love and worship Test cricket and have basically helped this game grow, and they are as important as anybody else.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Important
  • Fans
  • Give

• I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • World
  • Love
  • Giving

• Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Beginning
  • Painting
  • End

• During the holiday season, it's easy to forget that sometimes the best gift of all is simply the gift of time. I can't think of anything a writer would appreciate more than being given time and space to work.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Time
  • Work
  • Space

• Harry Potter is awesome.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Awesome
  • Harry Potter
  • Harry

• We need an unambiguous rule - a law - that nobody will step between the publisher and the consumer, full stop.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Law
  • Stop
  • Will

• No man was ever great by imitation.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Man
  • Imitation

• The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • Value
  • Beauty

• I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hate

• I think a good dollop of sadness is quite a useful thing in comedy sometimes. I think if everyone's happy all the time, it's a bit dull. It's like salt and caramel - you wouldn't imagine they would go well together, but they do.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Good
  • Together

• Horror serves a cathartic role in human society, all throughout the world. It is a way of confronting the darkness, both within and without.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • World
  • Society
  • Darkness

• The world is all about mind and matter; I don't mind and you don't matter.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • World
  • Mind

• As feminism made this transition from equal opportunity to unequal opportunism, I made my transition from supporter to critic. But in my inner psyche, there was no transition: I went from supporter of equality to supporter of equality.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Opportunity
  • Equality

• Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Drinking
  • Smoking

• Granted, everybody is different, but I think it's real important to know all the people that you are around, and how they operate their history, and things like that. You know where they are coming from a little bit, and you don't insult them, or take something for granted.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins
  • People
  • Different
  • Important

• What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.

  

  Hakuin Ekaku
  • Good
  • True
  • Words

• When 'Real People' aired in 1979, we did OK in Los Angeles and New York. What kept that show from being canceled were the ratings from the middle of the country, and that's what kept us in the top five. I learned then from co-hosting that it was important to focus on the country between Los Angeles and New York.

  

  Byron Allen
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• Recognition by one's peers is the goal of every scientist.

  

  Moshe Vardi
  • Scientist
  • Recognition

• Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

  

  Rollo May
  • Experience
  • Identity
  • Emotion

• Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  • Action
  • Talent
  • Genius