William Wordsworth Quotes
The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink I heard a voice it said Drink, pretty creature, drink'
Quotes to Explore
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I don't drink at lunchtime because I'm very weak at alcohol like most Asians.
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To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall.
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I had a sketch called 'Fedora Basketball,' which was about basketball players having to wear hats; in addition to scoring points, they have to make sure their fedoras don't fall off.
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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I like the effect drink has on me.
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Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
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Mixing in some rusty oranges is a warm way to update your place for fall.
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When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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I just never subscribed to the theory that at age 55, you fall off the face of the earth on the Tour. I always felt that was too young of an age for that.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
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Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
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What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
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I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
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Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.
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When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.
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I love the way you can fall in love with a piece of literature; how words alone can get your heart doing that.
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Petals are a plant’s eardrum. Distant sounds make them quiver like the needle of a seismograph.
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Just because we are wearing lipstick doesn't mean we can't kick your ass!
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I think that poetry is an act of celebration, that anytime you're writing a poem, it means that you're celebrating something, even if it's a sad poem, if it's an angry poem, a political poem or anything at all. The fact that you're taking the time and energy to pick up this thing and hold it to the light, and say, "Let's take some time to consider this," means that you've deemed it worthy enough to spend time on - which, in my opinion, is celebrating.
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The impossibility of separating the nomenclature of a science from the science itself, is owing to this, that every branch of physical science must consist of three things; the series of facts which are the objects of the science, the ideas which represent these facts, and the words by which these ideas are expressed. Like three impressions of the same seal, the word ought to produce the idea, and the idea to be a picture of the fact.
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It is true that one was not allowed at the time to really ask, what would lead people to do this, from what sense of political outrage or injury? And in that way, the possibility of sympathetic identification was foreclosed. That does not mean that some people took quiet pleasure in certain icons of US capitalism coming down, even though they would oppose such action on moral and political grounds.
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The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink I heard a voice it said Drink, pretty creature, drink'
