William Wetmore Story Quotes
Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free.
Quotes to Explore
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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A man is what he thinks about all day long.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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I don't have many friends.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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How you manage change can make all the difference.
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When you have balance in your life, work becomes an entirely different experience. There is a passion that moves you to a whole new level of fulfillment and gratitude, and that's when you can do your best... for yourself and for others.
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I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me.
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Let me tell you the truth. The truth is what is, and what should be is a fantasy. A terrible, terrible lie that someone gave to the people long ago.
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Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with with those of the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that the greatest of all improvements.
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We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them the C.I.A., … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.
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I don't think I ever went down that movie star path. I always enjoy taking a 90-degree turn from the last thing I did.
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The smell of cigars reminds me of someone I used to know, and it just always brings me back. I love it; I find something very comforting about it.
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'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.
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As I said, I began losing confidence in my instincts, which is tough and very bad for an instinctive person.
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I think in friendship, you want to be there for your friend, and sometimes you just don't know what to do or the relationship you have with them is not clear enough for you to know what to do.
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We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring.
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Style equals pretense.
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I confess that I cannot understand how we can plot, lie, cheat and commit murder abroad and remain humane, honorable, trustworthy and trusted at home.
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I know that I have to give testimony about all the things I lived, but I need time.
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I have great childhood memories of my mother baking, and I was always a willing participant, especially if it meant I could revarnish the kitchen floor with treacle.
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Oh! faint delicious spring-time violet, Thine odor like a key, Turns noiselessly in memory's wards to let A thought of sorrow free.
