William Dunbar Quotes

London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.

William Dunbar

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• I don't think I knew that you could be a novelist. I think a lot of my students are in the same condition. I thought it was unreachable, that it was sort of dead people. It took me a long time - I think I was well into novel writing before I really thought, 'Actually, this is a valid pastime.'

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Passion
  • Blind

• I'm half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house - so that's like a very Latin staple. It's just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can't wait for my rice and beans and chicken.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • House
  • Single
  • Look

• The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Practice
  • First
  • Building

• I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Work
  • Lucky
  • Everyone

• If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.

  

  Pamela Sue Martin
  • Want
  • Me
  • Truck

• I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Style

• Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Government
  • Students
  • Mercy

• Small aim is a crime.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Small
  • Crime
  • Aim

• I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Personal

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Taken
  • Industry
  • Seriously

• The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • You
  • Argument
  • Satisfaction

• Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Injustice
  • Rise

• The most enduring stories in literature generally have some kind of crime at their center, whether it's the bloody butchery of 'Hamlet,' the lecherous misanthropes of Dickens or the lone gunman from 'The Great Gatsby.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Great
  • Kind
  • Literature

• As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • Political
  • Birthday
  • Release

• Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

  

  Ovid
  • High
  • Lovers
  • Smiles

• As I've seen over and over again during my career, the best way to deter individual conduct is the threat of going to jail. That's what truly changes behavior. That's what changes the calculus as employees and executives decide whether to participate in an illegal scheme.

  

  Sally Yates
  • Career
  • Best
  • Changes

• I think it's good to have a nice, healthy group of people all doing different things. A lot of my friends don't even work in Hollywood; they just happen to live in L.A.

  

  Topher Grace
  • Hollywood
  • My Friends
  • Healthy Group

• If we don't preserve the oceans from nitrate runoff and plastic and chemicals, and if we don't preserve it from acidification, and if we don't preserve it from grotesque overfishing - too much money chasing too few fish - we're going to have the most massive ecosystem on the planet in peril.

  

  John F. Kerry
  • Money

• I don't want the money. I don't want the drama. I just want to do my show. I want to have fun again.

  

  Dave Chappelle
  • Money
  • Fun
  • Drama

• Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Soul

• Some people need flowers, some people need dandelions. It's medicine, it's what you need at that time in your life.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Flower
  • Medicine

• London, thou art the flower of cities all! Gemme of all joy, jasper of jocunditie.

  

  William Dunbar
  • Art
  • Joy
  • Flower