William Alexander Percy Quotes

And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?

William Alexander Percy

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• With a woman of sophistication, class and modesty and refinement, I become a totally tongue-tied buffoon. I can't even look her straight in the face.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Woman
  • Look
  • Modesty

• Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Want

• I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • People
  • Time
  • Busy

• I love 'Annie Hall'; I will always come back to that film again and again. Diane Keaton has been such an inspiration to me. She always brings humour, but complexity, and I love watching her on screen. She's got real charisma.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Inspiration
  • Complexity
  • Humour

• Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Like
  • Sing
  • Tail

• Iran doesn't need one centrifuge. Canada has nuclear energy. Spain has nuclear energy. Switzerland has nuclear energy, and they don't enrich uranium. You don't need to enrich uranium in order to use nuclear energy. You enrich uranium in order to produce a bomb.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Energy
  • Need
  • Canada

• I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Best
  • Thought
  • Paradise

• I discovered that wearing the veil is not suitable for a woman who wants to work in activism and the public domain. People need to see you, to associate and relate to you. It is not stated in my religion to wear the veil; it is a traditional practice, so I took it off.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • People
  • Work
  • Woman

• There are times in history where a particular doctrine becomes a symbol of a greater problem.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • History
  • Problem
  • Where

• So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • Men
  • High
  • Think

• I became famous almost before I had a craft.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Famous
  • Almost
  • Craft

• Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Want

• I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never got to that point.

  

  Nathaniel Kahn
  • Father
  • Know
  • Anger

• The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.

  

  Edward VIII
  • Children
  • America
  • Parents

• Babbo's menu is only four pages, but it's overwhelming - there are 20 different pastas in there, a lot of stuff. There is nothing I hate more than a useless, lazy menu with only three appetizers and four entrees.

  

  Joe Bastianich
  • Different
  • Hate
  • Lazy

• Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute.

  

  Adriana Lima
  • Cute

• South Sudanese people are rich like the soil; they just need a little water, and they will grow.

  

  Alek Wek
  • People
  • Water

• I would be horrible at Twitter. I wouldn't know the answer to fans' questions half the time - and the patience involved! I couldn't imagine. I did have a Twitter account that I tried for a couple days, but found I had nothing to say.

  

  Jim Parsons
  • Time
  • Couple
  • Patience

• The U.S. has a proud history of cleaning up our air through technological innovation. We did it with leaded gas, acid rain and countless other pollutants, and we can do it with carbon pollution, too.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • History
  • Proud

• False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

  

  Charles de Montesquieu
  • Men
  • True
  • Proud

• Humor writing requires a rhythm and timing, as well as some kind of connection to the reader, and I think that's how I tap into it.

  

  Kristan Higgins
  • Writing
  • Connection

• I'm arrogant, but not so much that I'd irresponsibly save someone just to brag about it

  

  Yana Toboso
  • Arrogant
  • Brag

• And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?

  

  William Alexander Percy
  • Proud
  • Romance
  • Obscure