R.D. Blackmore Quotes
Now let us bandy words no more... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.R.D. Blackmore
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song.
Hal Sparks -
I would love to work with Raju Hirani. I never thought I would have a wish-list of directors as such, but after seeing the consistency of his storylines and the human touch he gets in his film, I would love to work with him.
Ram Charan -
I wish I could fly. Or speak fluent Chinese. Both I think are equally impossible.
Karlie Kloss -
If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Saint Francis de Sales -
Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.
Edmund Morgan
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
Florence Scovel Shinn -
After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
J. A. Konrath -
I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.
Barbara Lynn -
Pakistan is a free country, so according to me, in a free country, it's every right of the citizen to live the way they wish.
Qandeel Baloch -
Painters must speak through paint, not through words.
Hans Hofmann -
A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music is more than itself. It's sort of like a prism, which you can see from each facet a single totality.
Yo-Yo Ma
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I don't believe in ghosts and have never seen one. I wish I could see one, and I would like to have seen one because then I could believe in God. If I can see it, feel it and taste it, then I believe in it.
Otto Penzler -
I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!
Barbara Bush -
I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do.
Aaliyah -
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.
Inga Muscio
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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
Laura Marling -
I wish I started out as a solo artist.
Darlene Love -
It's the story of an American who wants to become a dictator and goes to Europe with a sidekick to interview various Fascists to find out how the Nazis and Mussolini got into power.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti -
Going to spring break at Ft. Lauderdale, getting drunk and flashing your breasts isn't an act of personal empowerment. It's you, so fashioned and programmed by the construct of a patriarchal society that you no longer know what's best for yourself. A damsel too dumb to know she is even in distress.
Chuck Palahniuk -
Which of these stories will you be talking about tomorrow? The White House by the script.
Keith Olbermann -
Now let us bandy words no more... nothing is easier than sharp words, except to wish them unspoken.
R.D. Blackmore