William Wordsworth Quotes

The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

William Wordsworth

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• I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • You
  • Judge
  • Them

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

  

  Mal Peet
  • School
  • Art
  • Odd

• I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • She
  • Girl
  • Dinner

• When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.

  

  Dane Cook
  • People
  • Fun
  • Day

• In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Politics
  • Build

• 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

• But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Know
  • Look
  • Existence

• 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

• It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Challenge
  • Serious
  • Security

• Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Secret
  • Perseverance

• Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Giving
  • Alone
  • Abundance

• I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Hand

• In my final year of college, I was interning with L'Oreal, when during one of the photo shoots, a photographer suggested I become a model. I was working under Smira Bakshi, who was this really cool chick, as she was loaded, had her fun, and was successful. I basically aspired to be her.

  

  Kajal Aggarwal
  • She
  • Fun
  • College

• 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 love the shape of '50s fashion: the clothes are very flattering; they let you out in the right places. I love high heels, too, as I'm only five foot three, although I always tell people I'm five foot five.

  

  Imelda May
  • People
  • Love
  • High

• 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

• Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Me
  • Surprise
  • Involved

• My favorite play is Hamlet. It was my first love when it comes to Shakespeare, and I've read it and seen it performed more than just about every other Shakespeare play. I've had the "To be or not to be" monologue memorized since I was 15, and it's just really close to my heart.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Heart
  • Play
  • Hamlet

• One can hope to be like Julie Christie, and with a bit of luck might be able to, but you couldn't hope to be like Rita Hayworth.

  

  Suzy Kendall
  • Hope
  • Like
  • To Be

• When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay; Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side, The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Heart
  • Passion
  • Jesus

• The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Flower
  • Smell
  • Shy