Sappho Quotes

Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.

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• It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Game
  • Football
  • Sports

• Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • Past
  • Democracy
  • Mistakes

• I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Brilliant
  • Rude
  • Outrageous

• I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Remember
  • Winning
  • Goal

• My direction has never really changed, because I don't think that you can really work gimmicks in gospel music. With gospel music, there is this central theme that always comes around about the love of God, the love of Jesus and the power that you have through Jesus Christ. You don't need a gimmick when you have that.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Music
  • God
  • Love

• We were descended from royalty.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Royalty
  • Were
  • Descended

• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • May
  • Business

• Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Positive
  • Attitude
  • Stress

• My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Live
  • Always
  • Greatest

• I am a huge, huge fan of the plain white tee. A good-fitting, vintage plain white t-shirt, like the 'boyfriend shirt', is the sexiest thing a girl can wear. It goes with anything, fancy or casual.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Good
  • Girl
  • Fan

• You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • God
  • Education
  • Relationship

• I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Used
  • Dancing
  • Go

• You look at Moto3, the races are very exciting. Moto2 is fantastic, and then MotoGP is boring.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • You
  • Look
  • Boring

• I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!

  

  Pat Morita
  • Remember
  • You
  • Write

• We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Want
  • Hand
  • Feel

• 'Think from outside the box, collapse the box and take a fucking knife to it.'

  

  Banksy

• I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Thinking
  • Door

• To a great experience one thing is essential - an experiencing nature.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Nature

• Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • Long
  • Business
  • Success

• Man seems to be the only animal whose food soils him, making necessary much washing and shield-like bibs and napkins. Moles living in the earth and eating slimy worms are yet as clean as seals or fishes, whose lives are one perpetual wash.

  

  John Muir
  • Earth
  • Food
  • Animal

• Do you know what the lurid intermixture of complicated emotions produces, according to Nathaniel Hawthorne? That's right, it produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions. Ryan MacDonald's glorious shards of prose are both lurid and blazing, and together they comprise an anthology of complex feelings-dream-like, vivid, and never, ever obvious.

  

  Chris Bachelder
  • Together
  • Feelings
  • Emotion

• I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • Art
  • Want
  • You

• Stars veil their beauty soon / Beside the glorious moon, / When her full silver light / Doth make the whole earth bright.

  

  Sappho
  • Earth
  • Moon
  • Silver