Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes

My single pair of eyes Contain the universe they see; Their mirrored multiplicity Is packed into a hollow body Where I reflect the many, in my one.

Stephen Spender

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• I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Different
  • Character
  • Myself

• You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Decisions

• I'm a firm believer in the Second Amendment and the Bill of Rights. I don't think you should infringe on the type of weapon somebody should buy or the number of rounds in a high-capacity magazine.

  

  Gabriel E. Gomez
  • High
  • Think
  • Bill Of Rights

• And our dreams are who we are.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Dreams
  • Our
  • Our Dreams

• These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • People
  • American
  • Reality

• Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • World
  • Management
  • WIld

• Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Rest
  • Ideas
  • Better

• We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.

  

  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  • Known
  • Few
  • Munich

• It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Nice
  • Mean
  • Sex

• I said I wanted to strap guns on an El Camino. When I brought it up at a meeting, they said great. I realized there's no adult in the room.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Up
  • Great
  • Said

• In England we burnt redheads at the stake, because we thought they were witches. There are still young redheads in Britain getting ripped for having red hair. 'Oy, Ginger!'

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Hair
  • Thought
  • Red

• I've been married to the same woman for forty years, and whenever people ask us how we managed to stay married for so long, we usually say as one voice, 'What's the secret? Don't get divorced!'

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • People
  • Long
  • Woman

• The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • World
  • Forever
  • Fence

• I thought martial arts was going to help me with my movies and TV stuff, but I realized it would not.

  

  Bas Rutten
  • Help
  • Thought
  • Movies

• I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Myself
  • Need
  • Paper

• Love of fame is the last thing even learned men can bear to be parted from.

  

  Tacitus
  • Men
  • Love
  • Learned

• The plunder of black communities is not a bump along the road, but it is, in fact, the road itself that you can't have in America without enslavement, without Jim Crow, terrorism, everything that came after that.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • America
  • Black
  • Road

• You can close more business in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Business

• I have freedom. But freedom means total selfishness. It means nobody cares much what you do.

  

  Lynn Barber
  • Freedom

• We wanted to pick individuals who did have unique experiences and unique backgrounds.

  

  Anthony Romero
  • Unique
  • Experiences
  • Individuals

• We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.

  

  Conor McPherson
  • Why
  • Universe

• She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Mind
  • Eye
  • Intense

• To understand is to experience harmony between what we aim at and what is given, between the intention and the performance - and the body is our anchorage in the world.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • Harmony
  • Performance
  • Aim

• My single pair of eyes Contain the universe they see; Their mirrored multiplicity Is packed into a hollow body Where I reflect the many, in my one.

  

  Stephen Spender
  • Universe
  • Eye
  • Body