William Cowper Quotes
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
Quotes to Explore
-
I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
-
I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
-
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
-
Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
-
My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.
-
How does one get bored of life?
-
I remember praying for peace all the time as a kid.
-
Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
-
New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
-
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
-
The E.U.'s 500 million citizens enjoy the right to live and work in any of the Union's 27 member states.
-
The idea is a straightforward one. We provide an account for every newborn in America, a $500 account.
-
To hear the appreciation, the screams - that's what any of us need. We're at our best when we're wanted.
-
But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
-
In any other corporation, if there was so many things that were found to be corrupt, then the man at the top would go - but that doesn't seem to be the case with FIFA.
-
Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
-
I don't think I ever thought of growing up to be anything other than a musician. There really wasn't a plan B. Well, a kind of a distant plan B was to be a Formula One driver, but there really wasn't an entry point.
-
I think younger readers connect so readily to animal characters because they share a certain vulnerability, particularly when it comes to adult humans, who can be a rather unpredictable lot.
-
S Club 7, in some ways, was a continuation of some of the things I'd have liked to have done with the Spice Girls. It was also a shift in tone. S Club was this equality of boys and girls, very positive, very uplifting, didn't have the edge of the Spice Girls. I didn't want to repeat it.
-
Oh what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
-
Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. I too once met a girl in Central Park, but it is not much to remember. What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach, and the time the kitten found Orson Welles in the doorway in The Third Man.
-
Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
-
Habits are more powerful than fears.
-
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.
