Edmund White Quotes
Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man...
Edmund White
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Now pray tell me what Time is? ...Time (to speak abstractedly) is the continuance of any Thing in its own Being. But some Things continue longer in their Beings than others... Time absolutely... is Quantity, as admitting in some Manner the chief Affections of Quantity: Equality, Inequality, and Proportion...
Isaac Barrow
To really belong, we have got, first, to get it clear with ourselves that we do not belong and do not want to belong to an unfree world. As free men and women we have got to reject much of it and to know why we are rejecting it.
C. Wright Mills
If anyone thinks we have become tired, let me say that we are a struggling nation, a fighting nation, a patient nation.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.
Oliver Goldsmith
The brassy wood-pigeonsBubble their colourful voices, and the sunRises upon a world well-tried and old.
Ted Hughes
I wanted everything to stay the same, but you wanted things to be better, it's just...going to be a whole lot worse for awhile first. And I think I knew that, and I was scared of it." - Marcus
Dan Wells
My parents wanted me to have an honorable profession and not to be a jester.
Philippe Petit
When you start a new project, you wonder whether it's the right choice.
Jamie Bamber
The studio is my main compositional tool. And I used to be horrible in the studio. I didn't know any kind of technical stuff. But when you have something in your head, you've gotta figure out a way of executing it.
Mike Patton
Faith No More
In the emerging global economy, everything is mobile: capital, factories, even entire industries. The only resource that's really rooted in a nation--and the ultimate source of all its wealth--is its people.
Bill Clinton
Perhaps I became so vague, so exhilarated with vagueness, precisely in order to forestall a recognition of the final term of the syllogism that begins: If one man loves another he is a homosexual; I love a man...
Edmund White