I. A. Richards Quotes

It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.

I. A. Richards

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• As militias go, the Ohio Defense Force is on the moderate side.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Force
  • Defense
  • Go

• Before I got into grad school, I used to work as a deck hand on these ferry boats in San Francisco, and they did day tours. It wasn't a bad job. I made decent money. But you were sitting down all day, tying up the boat, wiping it down. For some guys, that's a dream job, but for me it was kind of torture.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Government
  • Care
  • Percent

• Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Industry
  • Reach
  • Capability

• It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Lost

• Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Man
  • Right
  • Lines

• For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Pain
  • Suffering
  • Sun

• Chivalry!-why, maiden, she is the nurse of pure and high affection-the stay of the oppressed, the redresser of grievances, the curb of the power of the tyrant-Nobility were but an empty name without her, and liberty finds the best protection in her lance and her sword.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Why
  • She
  • Power

• The heavy hanging chains shall fall,The walls shall crumble at the word,And Freedom greet you with the lightAnd brothers give you back the sword.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Freedom
  • Fall

• All that the conscious ego can do is to formulate wishes, which are then carried out by forces which it controls very little and understands not at all.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • Ego
  • Wishes

• Understand this, I mean to arrive at the truth. The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Truth
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly

• There are a lot of good actresses out there.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • Good

• I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.

  

  Bob Crosby
  • People
  • Brother

• Our parents were very strict. Not in a brutal or awful way, but there were definite rules, such as after six on a school night you didn't go out, and at weekends you had to be home by a certain time. It wasn't particularly sheltered, but we were well brought-up.

  

  Caroline Corr
  • Up
  • Time
  • School

• There are a lot of actors out there who don't have an arena to present their stuff.

  

  Joe Penny
  • Present

• When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.

  

  Don DeLillo

• For my family, 'black-ish' is the reward on a Thursday evening - a day after the show officially airs, when it's finally available to be streamed.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Family
  • Black
  • Thursday

• Social movements rarely succeed if they violate our gut sense of decency and moral proportion.

  

  Bret Stephens
  • Moral

• Fashion says a lot about a person.

  

  Caroline Wozniacki
  • Fashion

• I've never really been nervous about any concerts. I enjoy it so much. All that matters is getting the songs played well, trying to get them to sound as close to the record live, which isn't easy, because my music is quite complicated to play.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Song

• A child is a child in any country, whatever the politics. Let's get down to basics. That's what a child forces you to do. Nothing else much matters, there is no complicated diplomacy, when a child is starving. It's simple. And we'd better do something about it. For our sakes, too. That is, if we want to continue to call ourselves human.

  

  Audrey Hepburn
  • Politics
  • Child
  • Human

• It is never what a poem says that matters, but what it is.

  

  I. A. Richards