Stephen Spender (Sir Stephen Harold Spender) Quotes
I think continually of those who were truly great . Who, from the womb, remembered the soul 's history Through corridors of light where the hours are suns , Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition Was that their lips, still touched with fire , Should tell of the spirit clothed from head to foot in song .
Stephen Spender
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
Wanda Sykes
We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
Najib Razak
As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it.
Naomi Klein
I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
Walter Isaacson
There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up – the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.
Pardis Sabeti
When we look at government in Washington or what's happening on Wall Street, we see so much centralization. But really, our goals should be to eliminate and overcome these central institutions. And in recent years we have gained powerful new tools to do this, and most significant among those is the block chain, which is the software behind Bitcoin.
Patrick M. Byrne
Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.
P. J. O'Rourke
I like the Stereophonics. I know the lead singer, Kelly Jones, and there's the Welsh connection.
Ian Rush
The greatest merit of the critical spirit is that it tends to cure fanaticism, and it is logical enough that in our own fanatical times the critical spirit should tend to disappear.
Gabriel Marcel
When you have an emotion you are recruiting a variety of mechanisms that came in the long history of evolution, long before emotions arose, and those mechanisms all had to do with how an organism manages its life.
Antonio Damasio
Where is he, the champion and the childOf all that's great or little, wise or wild;Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones;Whose table earth - whose dice were human bones?
Lord Byron
But you know he'll always keep movin';You know he's never gonna stop movin.Cus he's rollin',He's the rollin' stone.And when you wake up it's a new mornin'.The sun is shinin' it's a new morning.You're goin',You're goin' home.
Gerry Rafferty
A lot of times, politicians will go to where their strongest force is and do things for them, and that's the type of thing they do that I find offensive.
Jim Inhofe
I know what actors fear, what they like; I know how to get things out of them and I listen to them better, since I've been there.
Joan Chen
I am outraged that the Gorillaz have infringed the copyright of my song 'Time Warp,' claiming their song 'Stylo' to be an original composition.
Eddy Grant
People keep asking me if recently performing the Betty album will influence the song-writing and I think it might. There's songs on that record that I forgot about and it's really nice to have that variety in the set along with tracks from Strap It On, Meantime, Aftertaste, Size Matters, Monochrome, and Seeing Eye Dog.
Page Hamilton
I think continually of those who were truly great . Who, from the womb, remembered the soul 's history Through corridors of light where the hours are suns , Endless and singing. Whose lovely ambition Was that their lips, still touched with fire , Should tell of the spirit clothed from head to foot in song .
Stephen Spender
