Alfred William Howitt Quotes

Love you not, then, to list and hear The crackling of the gorse-flower near, Pouring an orange-scented tide Of fragrance o'er the desert wide?

Alfred William Howitt

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• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

  Mal Peet
  • School
  • Art
  • Odd

• There's nothing mathematical to my writing. It's a feeling.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Writing
  • Feeling
  • Nothing

• I choose to focus on the positive.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Focus
  • Positive
  • Choose

• I busted my butt all my life building companies.

  

  Wayne Huizenga
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Building

• Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Great
  • You
  • Mad

• Vamps no longer exist. Stars have taken their roles.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Taken
  • Stars
  • Exist

• I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Success
  • Talent

• I just have work to do; I just do it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Work
  • Just
  • Just Do It

• I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Great
  • Kind

• I can’t say it, but it rhymes with rich.

  

  Barbara Bush

• I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me - to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Good
  • Freedom
  • Wish

• If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology, with all its miraculous machinery, must go.

  

  John Burroughs
  • Science
  • Alone

• The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?

  

  Charles Eames
  • Real

• Men should friendly confer together, and offer one another their gifts and knowledge in love, and try things one with another, and hold that which is best, and not so stand in their own opinion as if they could not err.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • Men
  • Together
  • Knowledge

• As technology improves, on-screen avatars look more and more like real people. When they start looking too real, though, we pull away. These almost-humans aren't quite right; they look creepy, like zombies.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • People
  • Real
  • Technology

• There should be reluctance to make a national policy so inflexible that it fails to take into account the country's diversity.

  

  Blase J. Cupich
  • Country
  • Diversity

• It is very easy to forget how much of a pain training is when you have a dog for so long, but trust me, it's not as easy and quick as we all hope.

  

  Jenna Morasca
  • Long
  • Hope
  • Pain

• I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.

  

  Buddy Guy
  • People
  • Music
  • Why

• It's interesting - I think superheroes get much more unfair derision. There are so many good superhero books being done. Science fiction is almost more reputable, I guess, at least a step up from poor superheroes.

  

  Brian K. Vaughan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Done

• I don't have time to be depressed.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Time
  • Depressed

• What you saw was what you got. There was no difference from me on stage and me sitting here talking to you.

  

  Morna Anne Murray

• 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

• The flowers left thick at nightfall in the wood This Eastertide call into mind the men, Now far from home, who, with their sweethearts, should Have gathered them and will do never again.

  

  Edward Thomas
  • Mind
  • Home
  • Flower

• Love you not, then, to list and hear The crackling of the gorse-flower near, Pouring an orange-scented tide Of fragrance o'er the desert wide?

  

  Alfred William Howitt
  • Flower
  • Desert
  • Love You