Wilfrid Sheed Quotes

The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one has had occasion to change. "Scattered showers, periods of sunshine."

Wilfrid Sheed

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• All the teaching I had ever received had failed to make me apply such intelligence as I was possessed of, directly and vividly: there had never been any sunshine, as regards language, in the earlier grey days of learning, for the sky had always pelted with gerunds and optatives.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Learning
  • Sky
  • Intelligence

• Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Up
  • Today
  • Day

• The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Art
  • Light
  • Simplicity

• There's that old journalism rule that sunshine is the great disinfectant - which is how reporters bust their way into meetings and such all the time. In sports, I really think winning is the great disinfectant.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Sports

• Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Fall
  • inspirational
  • Sunshine

• I love Donna Summer, and I love ABBA. I love late '70s disco. I love the Bee Gees. I just love that period of recording.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Period
  • Recording
  • Disco

• I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • House
  • Sunshine

• I have ever remarked, that when Fate has any great misfortune in store, it is always preceded by a brief period of calm and sunshine-as if to add bitterness of contrast to all other misery. It is for the happy to tremble-it is over their heads that the thunderbolt is about to burst.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Period

• To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius.

  

  Ameen Rihani
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Boy

• Daisies are like sunshine to the ground.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • Sunshine

• False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

  

  Christian Nestell Bovee
  • Friends
  • Leaving
  • Shadow

• I never had a better role than I had in 'Little Miss Sunshine.' That was one of my favorite roles ever.

  

  Alan Arkin
  • Sunshine

• I grew up listening to pop music with my dad in the car, and we'd just listen to Stevie Wonder, Al Green, Earth Wind & Fire, KC and the Sunshine Band - all that good stuff. So to see it snaking its way back around again is really exciting, and I love listening to the radio.

  

  Megan Nicole
  • Up
  • Good
  • Music

• I am pleased to report that Texas is known for having one of the strongest set of open government laws in our Nation. And ever since that experience, I have long believed that our federal government could use 'a little Texas sunshine.'

  

  John Cornyn
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Texas

• At the gym, I do full-body circuits with low weights and high repetitions, as well as four or five cardio intervals thrown into the mix. I put a lot of emphasis on core strength and flexibility training. I also do a lot of running in my free time. Anytime I can move my cardio outside in the sunshine, I do.

  

  Jill Wagner
  • Time
  • High
  • Free

• I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Free
  • Sunshine

• When Alexander the Great addressed him with greetings, and asked if he wanted anything, Diogenes replied 'Yes, stand a little out of my sunshine.'

  

  Diogenes
  • Great
  • Sunshine

• Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, It's not warm when she's away, Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, And she's always gone too long, Anytime she goes away.

  

  Bill Withers
  • Long
  • She
  • Sunshine

• Mama says that, happiness is from magic rays of sunshine that come down when you're feeling blue.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • Feeling
  • Happiness
  • Feelings

• The fluctuations of certainty, the change Of degrees of perception in the scholar’s dark.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Dark
  • Perception

• Knowledge is the key that unlocks all the doors. You can be green-skinned with yellow polka dots and come from Mars, but if you have knowledge that people need, instead of beating you, they'll beat a path to your door.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Path

• Hopefully this movie will help people understand that if a child is never given the tools to know how to love others and love and respect themselves, this is what happens.

  

  Jami Gertz
  • People
  • Movie
  • Help

• The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one has had occasion to change. "Scattered showers, periods of sunshine."

  

  Wilfrid Sheed
  • Sunshine
  • Recording
  • Occasion