Stevie Smith Quotes
Coleridge received the Person from Porlock
And ever after called him a curse,
Then why did he hurry to let him in?
He could have hid in the house.
Stevie Smith
Quotes to Explore
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I love comfort. Comfort is very key to me because I spend most of my time in very uncomfortable things, so it's all about trainers and flats.
Cara Delevingne
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In order to defend the Chinese race, one must first defend the Confucian culture; and in order to defend the Confucian culture, one must first defend the State. This is because what preserves the race relies upon intelligence, which is in turn nurtured by Confucian education.
Zhang Zhidong
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Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
Ralph W. Sockman
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Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.
Napoleon Hill
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While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.
Damon Galgut
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Had Kala lived, Tarzan would have sacrificed all else to remain near her, but now that she was dead, and the playful friends of his childhood grown into fierce and surly brutes he felt that he much preferred the peace and solitude of his cabin to the irksome duties of leadership amongst a horde of wild beasts.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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Smooth as the hickory wind that blows from Memphis down to Apalachicola.It's 'Hi, y'all, did you eat well? Come on in, I'm sure glad to know ya.'Don't let this old gold cross and this Allman Brothers t-shirt throw ya.It's cicadas making noise with the Southern voice.
Tim McGraw
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Art is not a Trojan horse.
Elfriede Jelinek
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I have long admired Paul Ryan and thought of him as the future of the Republican Party.
Charlie Sykes
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I was one of the actors in 'Braveheart,' and that had a huge impact on the political scene in Scotland. One of the results of that, in 2014 there's going to be a referendum in Scotland as to whether Scotland is going to be independent. A great deal of that was brought to the nation as a result of 'Braveheart.'
James Cosmo
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I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts.
Jason Reitman
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To me, poetry is spoken - not exclusively, but there's a mix of languages in it. That's what I liked about 'For the Confederate Dead;' it has many different tones to it.
Kevin Young
