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

• '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

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

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Family
  • Nasty
  • Size

• 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

• 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 never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Thought

• There is no better high than discovery.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • High
  • Better
  • Discovery

• Your reader is interested in a guileless, fresh, first-time-we-talked-about-it way. What a great liberation that is. And teenagers, if you respect them, will follow you a lot further than adults will, without fear of being a genre that they may not like or have been told not to like. They just want a story.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Time
  • Great
  • May

• What's considered ideal in Hollywood is completely different than anywhere else in the world. I don't think you can aspire to it, nor can I. Everybody is retouched, stretched, lengthened, slimmed and trimmed. I could look at a picture of myself from the past and think, 'Why don't I look like that now?' It's because I never have!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • World
  • Different
  • Why

• I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

  

  Vernon L. Smith
  • Security
  • Social
  • Original

• If your budget is in good shape and you are not indebted too much, you can do what the U.S. did at the beginning of the '30s - building railways, etc., but when you don't have that, you must be far more cautious.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Good
  • Beginning
  • Building

• Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Flattery
  • Both
  • Giver

• Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

  

  Amelia Barr
  • Thinking
  • Sun
  • Shining

• I need to think about 'Make sure you drink your water.' That's the kind of person I am.

  

  Jon Crosby
  • Water
  • Person
  • Drink

• Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • World
  • Art
  • Politics

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

  

  Charlotte Mew
  • You
  • Water
  • Deep