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
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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
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
Rand Paul
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Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.
Ram Charan
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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
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Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man.
Oscar Niemeyer
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There are a lot of good actresses out there.
Benicio Del Toro
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I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.
Bob Crosby
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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
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There are a lot of actors out there who don't have an arena to present their stuff.
Joe Penny
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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
Don DeLillo
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I love actors, and I love the casting process. It's funny, like, some writers don't like actors because, I think, they are the faces of the show, and so you feel sort of secondary, but I love actors because they elevate the material; they make it better.
Bryan Fuller
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I don't think I have the stamina anymore and I certainly don't have the health.
Eric Reeves
