Walter de La Mare Quotes

A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.

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• I just think 'Broad City' - Comedy Central's answer to 'Girls' - is the best thing that's been put on television in years. It's amazing.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
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• I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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• English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.

  

  Yael Naim
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• You could say that all novels are spy novels and all novelists are spy masters.

  

  Ian Mcewan
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• Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

  

  Eartha Kitt
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• Do we really want to continue to push out the envelope of survival only to see other things crop up that we may not like?

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
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• I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.

  

  O. J. Simpson
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• I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.

  

  Ed O'Neill
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• This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'

  

  Kate Beckinsale
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• When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • War
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• I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Good
  • Job
  • Afraid

• English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • People
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• Actor's life is very long.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
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• Discouragement, fear, doubt, lack of self-confidence, are the germs which have killed the prosperity and happiness of tens of thousands of people.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • People
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• One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

  

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• Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.

  

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• Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.

  

  Jack Welch
  • King
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• The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

  

  J. I. Packer
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  • Books
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• Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Live
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• It's not color, it's like pouring 40 tablespoons of sugar water over a roast.

  

  John Huston
  • Water
  • Color

• Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Lost
  • Water
  • Week

• Just then, down through the last glimmer of twilight, stepping high and free, like a cloud, a moth, a ghost in the shape of a horse — came the Silver Stallion. Wild, beautiful, and free as the wind he came, from one kingdom to another, Thowra

  

  Elyne Mitchell
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• A harvest mouse goes scampering by, With silver claws and silver eye; And moveless fish in the water gleam, By silver reeds in a silver stream.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Water
  • Eye
  • Silver