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

• Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • High
  • Pretty

• Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• If you can make the day, you can do whatever you want.

  

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
  • Want
  • Day
  • Make

• I'd like to find great roles close to home and work on great projects while staying near my family. My family's the most important thing to me right now.

  

  Harry Hamlin
  • Family
  • Roles
  • Projects

• England have the best fans in the world and Scotlands fans are second to none

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • World
  • Fans
  • England

• Scotland small? Our multiform, infinite Scotland SMALL?

  

  Hugh MacDiarmid
  • Scotland
  • Multiform