Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes

Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.

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• It seems to me that Halloween is the perfect time to get all over steampunk.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Halloween

• China's one-child policy was born in 1980, after years of less severe measures to discourage births. The Communist Party promised that the policy would be temporary.

  

  Barbara Demick
  • Party
  • Years
  • Born

• One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.

  

  Ted Danson
  • You
  • Kiss
  • London

• The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Walking
  • Streets
  • Nuts

• If there is a reason I'm able to make unsympathetic characters human, it's because it's my desire to find what drives the unsympathetic behavior. Almost always at the bottom of it is some deep insecurity. Putting your finger on what each individual's particular insecurity is goes a long way to fleshing that person out.

  

  Pablo Schreiber
  • Long
  • Desire
  • Deep

• I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Winning
  • Seven
  • Unfair

• Back in the '70s when my friends in California were at Berkeley, in-state tuition was around $700 a year.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Friends
  • California
  • Year

• I almost feel like we do live in a world like 'Caprica.' The fact that it's so close to home is why it appeals to me so much. You're making statements about what's going on right now. You take Facebook and Wii and add it together, and that's what the virtual world in 'Caprica' is.

  

  Magda Apanowicz
  • World
  • Live
  • Why

• It's funny, oftentimes the really great roles that I enjoy are in classic plays, and there aren't many theatres in New York who will do them, aside from Roundabout.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Great
  • Funny
  • New York

• An intelligent and conscientious opposition is a part of loyalty to country.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Country
  • Intelligent
  • Loyalty

• I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.

  

  Jacob Epstein
  • School
  • Proud
  • Period

• I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Respect

• I'm not gonna ride home in the car. I'll wait for Randy. I think I'll get home quicker.

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Home
  • Car
  • Ride

• The truth always stays the same.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Truth
  • Expression

• If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • Power
  • History
  • Strong

• Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning. ~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Why
  • Party
  • Beginning

• I called Kevin Spacey one day about something else, but he didnt say to me calm down, like The New York Times said. Because I was not deranged.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • New York
  • Calm
  • One Day

• False eloquence is exaggeration; true eloquence is emphasis.

  

  William R. Alger
  • True
  • False
  • Eloquence

• As the Deity has given us Greeks all other blessings in moderation, so our moderation gives us a kind of wisdom which is timid, in all likelihood, and fit for common people, not one which is kingly and splendid. This wisdom, such as it is, observing that human life is ever subject to all sorts of vicissitudes, forbids us to be puffed up by the good things we have, or to admire a man's felicity while there is still time for it to change.

  

  Solon
  • Wisdom
  • Blessings
  • Human Life

• I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.

  

  Walter Jon Williams
  • Universe
  • Speak
  • Achieve

• For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Me

• Paul Valery speaks of the 'une ligne donnee' of a poem. One line is given to the poet by God or by nature, the rest he has to discover for himself.

  

  Stephen Spender
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