Moliere Quotes
Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!Moliere
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Even someone who works with me, like this girl who works with me, her name is Sue. She lives with me and holds the fort; she takes care of all these little things. She takes care of the money situation, and I would not be able to live without someone like that.
Caprice Bourret -
You can't write all those little nuances, inflections that they'd do, ... James and Benny, playing off each other, they'd come up with something ten times better than what you thought you had.
Lamont Dozier -
In my first video diary I explained my love for women who have a taste in carrots. Since then, I have received plenty of carrots. Now I also have a keen interest in women who like Lamborghinis.
Louis Tomlinson One Direction -
I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying. Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.
Derek Jarman -
Poetry begins in trivial metaphors, pretty metaphors, "grace" metaphors, and goes on to the profoundest thinking that we have. Poetry provides the one permissible way of saying one thing and meaning another. People say, "Why don’t you say what you mean?" We never do that, do we, being all of us too much poets. We like to talk in parables and in hints and in indirections — whether from diffidence or some other instinct.
Robert Frost -
I once had a problem ... so I tried group sex. Now I have a new problem - who to thank.
Jack Roy
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The science that studies the supreme good for man is politics.
Aristotle -
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos.
Plato -
I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.
Virginia Woolf -
The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
There is one single thread binding my way together...the way of the Master consists in doing one's best...that is all.
Confucius -
Never hesitate to ask a lesser person.
Confucius
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Experimental novels are sometimes terribly clever and very seldom read. But the story that appeals to the child sitting on your knee is the one that satisfies the curiosity we all have about what happened then, and then, and then. This is the final restriction put on the technique of telling a story. A basic thing called story is built into the human condition. It's what we are; it's something to which we react.
William Golding -
This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
Victor Hugo -
She was a little startled by seeing the Cheshire Cat sitting on a bough of a tree a few yards off. The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice.
Lewis Carroll -
I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
Naveen Jain -
O joy! that in our embers Is something that doth live, That nature yet remembers What was so fugitive!
William Wordsworth -
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost
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The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical.
William Shenstone -
Everything that's prose isn't verse and everything that isn't verse is prose. Now you see what it is to be a scholar!
Moliere