William Everson Quotes
Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.
Quotes to Explore
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A group of psychologists say they have discovered twenty-three different body language indicators that show whether or not a person is lying. If you would like to see all twenty-three at the same time, they recommend taking a guided tour of the White House.
Conan O'Brien
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And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent.
Plato
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Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.
Plato
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Man alone suffers so excruciatingly in the world that he was compelled to invent laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
William Shakespeare
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My pen moves along the pagelike the snout of a strange animalshaped like a human armand dressed in the sleeve of a loose green sweater.
William Collins
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People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the problem - there is no meaning in everything...
Andrew Lakey
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It takes a great client to create great architecture.
Curtis W. Fentress
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I hate to disappoint my haters, but I'm not the least bit interested in being a man. I'm perfectly satisfied with the female role.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
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There is something essentially sanguine about me, which I am inclined to attribute to the fact that I was born by caesarean section. It must affect you.
Simon Callow
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Don't attribute mishaps to a lapse in concentration - if you missed the note you don't know it.
William Westney
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Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.
Michael Servetus
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Orchestration is part of the very soul of the work. A work is thought out in terms of the orchestra, certain tone-colors being inseparable from it in the mind of its creator and native to it from the hour of its birth.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
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Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.
William Everson