Hugh MacDiarmid Quotes

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• Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Song
  • Place

• I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Woman
  • Hollywood
  • Imitation

• Miracles are manifestations for which science has no definition, no analysis.

  

  B. J. Palmer
  • Science
  • Miracle
  • Analysis

• Only those who have learned well to be earnestly dissatisfied with themselves, and to be confounded with shame at their wretchedness truly understand the Christian gospel.

  

  John Calvin
  • Learned
  • Dissatisfied
  • Christian Gospel

• Research is what drives me. When I get a script, I go to the real world and touch the real people.

  

  Tony Scott
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• A willingness to live with irresolvable questions is a mark of intellectual maturity, not a matter of logical nonsense.

  

  Andreas J. Kostenberger
  • Live
  • Questions
  • Maturity

• No one has been a greater botanist or zoologist. No one has written more books, more correctly, more methodically, from personal experience. No one has more completely changed a whole science and started a new epoch.

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Book
  • Changed
  • Greater

• I never knew I lacked so much confidence until I met you

  

  Karuho Shiina
  • Confidence
  • Lacked

• Man himself is an enigma in motion; his questions never stay asked; whereas the mold, the footprint, and by natural extension, the statue itself, like the vaults, the arches, the temples with which man records his own passing, remain immobile and fix a moment of man's life, upon which one might endlessly meditate.

  

  Emile Chartier
  • Records
  • Meditate
  • Extension

• Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.

  

  Niall Williams
  • Human
  • Mysterious
  • Creations

• I think I'm a guy who is going to come in and work hard from Day One.

  

  Ezekiel Elliott
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Day

• The Bible says that the devil is like a roaring lion (1 Peter 5:8). He comes in the darkness, and tries to frighten the children of God with his mighty roar. But when you switch on the light of the Word of God, you discover that there is no lion. There is only a mouse with a microphone! The devil is an imposter. Got it?

  

  Reinhard Bonnke
  • Bible
  • Word
  • Darkness

• Disrespecting one's ethnicity or their religious preference, on and on and on, if they have a disability, is not anything that has to do with when we talk about democracy. Equality.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Religious
  • Democracy
  • Equality

• Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Kind
  • Young
  • Old

• We can get so much out of golf. I know I have, and I'd like to see the same for you. Golf is the game of a lifetime, one in which you can get better and better. It's not what you do that counts, but what you attempt to do.

  

  George Knudson
  • Better
  • Golf
  • Games

• The strength that comes from human collaboration is the central truth behind civilisation's success and the primary reason why cities existwe must free ourselves from our tendency to see cities as their buildings, and remember that the real city is made of flesh, not concrete.

  

  Edward Glaeser
  • Remember
  • Reason
  • Human

• Excuse me? You're a lady?" "I bought a title on the Internet. I own one square inch of Scotland. And you're changing the subject.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Internet
  • Subject
  • Scotland

• Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?

  

  Hugh MacDiarmid
  • Scotland
  • Multiform