Charlotte Mew Quotes

You were water to me deep and bold and fathoming' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew

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• During one or two summers, as well as part-time during the school year, I worked for a small Canadian company which developed electrical instruments for military planes.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Time
  • School
  • Small

• I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Real
  • Woman
  • Fart

• If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Patience
  • Strength
  • Welcome

• 'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Word
  • Dangerous
  • Mathematics

• Coming to another hockey Mecca like Toronto makes you a better coach. I want to have fun again. I want to make it fun for everybody, and it's fun when you win.

  

  Pat Burns
  • Fun
  • Better
  • Win

• The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Work
  • Parents
  • Work Hard

• There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Art
  • Like
  • Modern

• I'm drawn to villains that are three-dimensional and raw and that I can kind of see in my own life.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Life
  • Kind
  • See

• I was considered an ugly duckling.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Ugly
  • Considered

• The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Kind
  • Human
  • Monsters

• Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Space
  • Resources
  • Weight

• I wasn't naturally gifted in terms of size and speed; everything I did in hockey I worked for, and that's the way I'll be as a coach.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Hockey
  • Speed
  • Size

• I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Family
  • Nasty
  • Size

• Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Patience

• You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • You
  • Understanding
  • Effort

• I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Trying
  • Change
  • Question

• Compared to a lot of artists, I'm usually quite covered up in videos and photo shoots.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Up
  • Lot
  • Covered

• For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Simple
  • Problem
  • Answer

• I really don't like when things are all polished and perfect - the perfect love story and the hair is perfect.

  

  Marisa Tomei
  • Perfect
  • Hair

• I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Couple
  • Thought
  • Teenager

• When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did.

  

  Hans Matheson
  • Happy
  • Song
  • College

• I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Know
  • Me
  • Travel

• I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Work
  • Hope
  • United Nations

• You were water to me deep and bold and fathoming' - Praise Song For My Mother by Charlotte Mew

  

  Charlotte Mew
  • You
  • Water
  • Deep