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

• If you're not tough it's hard to survive in this world; and if you're not kind then you don't deserve to survive.

  

  Raymond Chandler
  • Society
  • Community
  • Tough

• Touring is very routine. You get to the city, you go to the hotel, you got to be at the hotel by a certain time - it's very routine. I'm not a very structured person, so when I get some structure, it's cool; it's good for me.

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Good
  • City

• Every month, every week, something new excites me. I'm finding my niche as to what suits me the best. I am a young girl, and if I am just running around in a jeans and a T-shirt, that's a lot of life lost.

  

  Alia Bhatt
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Lost

• Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Time
  • Really
  • Capital

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

  

  I. A. Richards