Edwin Muir Quotes

The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all.

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• Growing up in the public eye was really tough. When you're 14 and your body is changing, your life is changing, and people are watching every step you make, it's really hard to deal with. But I was pretty lucky, people didn't watch me that closely.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Young

• I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.

  

  Tanit Phoenix
  • Up
  • Time
  • Nature

• I was never a person who dated in high school, because at 17, everything just felt like it had to be so rushed. Relationships just bounced around like crazy in high school! And now, I never want to rush anything. I just want to enjoy all of the steps.

  

  Landon Liboiron
  • School
  • High
  • Crazy

• My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• Some players don't like training and I've seen some players who aren't bothered if they play or not. But I want to play every game. Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Want
  • Rest

• He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Call
  • Falls
  • Niagara

• Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.

  

  Irene Peter
  • Mean
  • Always
  • Sincere

• I have learned how to breathe, to use my cords differently. I had been tilting my head in a way when I talked that wasn't good for my throat. I've been working on all of that, and it seems to be helping.

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Good
  • Breathe
  • I Have Learned

• The lifestyle I lead as a footballer means I am always in the spotlight.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Lifestyle
  • Spotlight
  • Footballer

• I am not a politician by nature, but I will say I think there need to be more women in FIFA, and I would be open to having those conversations when the time is right.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Time
  • Women
  • Nature

• My grandfather was from Aberdare. He was a coal miner who emigrated and then continued mining in Pennsylvania.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • Grandfather
  • Then
  • Mining

• The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Happy
  • Sad
  • Sadness

• I don't know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Why
  • Know
  • Best

• Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Good
  • First
  • Television

• 19: A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.

  

  Alan Perlis

• Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don’t know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hard and tortuous to write a bad one.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Good
  • Bad

• Every book is its own experience, the writing of it.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Book

• In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Bad

• The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship.

  John Moody

• I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Air

• There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Kind
  • Movement
  • Conservative

• Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Money
  • Book
  • Stock

• The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all.

  

  Edwin Muir
  • Great
  • Darkness
  • Blind