Walter de La Mare Quotes

For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.

Walter de La Mare

• Music
• Light
• Sorrow
• Burden
• Evening
• Foam
• Forlorn

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• We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.

  

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• We've seen that there are a lot of people out there - teenagers in Topeka, housewives in Long Island, millionaire Internet start-up moguls - that all want to connect with each other about what it is to be human.

  

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• If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.

  

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• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

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• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

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• When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.

  

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• As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.

  

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• Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.

  

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  • People
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• We human beings are humane in part because we can look beyond our biology.

  

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  • Human
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• I'm going to be me, regardless of anything.

  

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• When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.

  

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  • American
  • Think
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• As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

  

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  • Character
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• You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.

  

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• If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

  

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• On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.

  

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• Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.

  

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• Ken, the Tot of Destiny, had turned into the Marquis de Sade, and I in response had become a virago.

  

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• In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

  

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  • Music

• Then came a rather surreal exchange about Joy Division T-shirts, with us proudly proclaiming we did not sell merchandise because we didn’t believe in self-promotion of any kind, preferring to let the music speak for itself. ‘Rubbish,’ boomed Scotty. ‘How come wherever I go I see Joy Division and New Order T-shirts, worn and for sale, eh?’ Now, we had no idea where he was going to see these things, but we were all speechless anyway. He continued, ‘I don’t believe you, and will be fining you accordingly.’ So we would get fined £10,000 for not doing our own T-shirts.

  

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  • Music
  • Proclaiming
  • Self-promotion

• For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Music
  • Light
  • Sorrow