Harold Bloom Quotes
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.Harold Bloom
Quotes to Explore
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Loyalty of the law-making power to the executive power was one of the dangers the political fathers foretold.
Garet Garrett -
I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
Everybody gets dressed every day, and whatever you decide to get dressed in that morning is communicating something.
Hailey Gates -
I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
Naomi Klein -
My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.
Ulysses S. Grant -
Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
Zig Ziglar
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I hope that one of my legacies, and I worked to pass it on, is moderation in politics.
Sam Reed -
I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
Taylor Lautner -
Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.
Eartha Kitt -
My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
Mahershala Ali -
My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
Sam Smith -
We hear all around us to love ourselves, and one of the ways we can do that is to eat food that serves our body, but also for us to love the food we're eating.
Gabrielle Reece
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
Kate Williams -
Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
Ted McGinley -
You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.
Gail Porter -
It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
Pankaj Mishra -
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis -
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
Aasif Mandvi -
My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.
Taylor Swift -
What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better.
Laura Linney -
It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
Walter Scott -
Do you think a champion is made out of thin air? It’s through the hardships you endure that you’ll gain real strength.
Gail Tsukiyama -
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
Harold Bloom