William Cowper Quotes
Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.
William Cowper
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
Kate Bernheimer
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
Madeleine Peyroux
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Are there differences between black actors' opportunities and white actors' opportunities? Yes, there are. It's been said.
Idris Elba
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
Jack Nicholson
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
Wanda Sykes
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
Orlando Bloom
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The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.
Ice T
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I grew up in a home where reading was a big deal.
Mallory Ortberg
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I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm still scared of the dark. I have to have a light on all night. It's completely irrational, and my son is the same. I just hate the dark.
Louise Nurding
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If you want to understand poetry,
You have to go to its origin,
If you want to understand the poet,
You have to go to the Poet's home.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.
James Weldon Johnson
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Philologists, who chase A painting syllable through time and space Start it at home, and hunt it in the dark, To Gaul, to Greece, and into Noah's Ark.
William Cowper