Edwin Muir Quotes

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Edwin Muir

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• As I lay so sick on my bed, from Christmas till March, I was always praying for poor ole master. 'Pears like I didn't do nothing but pray for ole master. 'Oh, Lord, convert ole master;' 'Oh, dear Lord, change dat man's heart, and make him a Christian.'

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Heart
  • Man
  • Change

• The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Today
  • Growth
  • Yesterday

• I have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we're having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there's a foul, and that's a chance to score a goal.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Good
  • Game
  • Free

• I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you figure out what you want to do with your own life.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Life
  • Yourself
  • Start

• My parents did everything possible. My dad has worked from eight in the morning until nine in the evening to make it possible so I can play tennis. We had to cancel tournaments because we couldn't afford to go there.

  

  Sabine Lisicki
  • Parents
  • Dad
  • Morning

• In some theoretical way I know that a half-million people hear the show. But in a day-to-day way, there's not much evidence of it.

  

  Ira Glass
  • People
  • Know
  • Evidence

• Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Man
  • Words
  • Universe

• For me, I always like to get up bright and early.

  

  Andre Rieu
  • Up

• The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • Thinking
  • True
  • Individual

• His desire to focus on specific core funds has given me the opportunity to redistribute assets to managers whose talents warrant larger assignments.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • Opportunity
  • Desire
  • Focus

• Do not confuse your vested interests with ethics. Do not identify the enemies of your privilege with the enemies of humanity.

  

  Max Lerner
  • Humanity
  • Enemy
  • Interest

• The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Healing
  • Diseases
  • Manifold

• I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... so now I have to move.

  

  George Clooney
  • Moving
  • Found
  • Yards

• Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass. Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.

  

  X. J. Kennedy
  • Mind
  • Beauty
  • Girls

• The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Art
  • Reading
  • Fiction

• What’s in your backpack, Bess?” Nancy Drew asked

  

  Carolyn Keene
  • Backpack

• I do not begin my novel at the beginning, I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four, I do not go dutifully from one page to the next, in consecutive order; no, I pick out a bit here and a bit there, till I have filled all the gaps on paper. This is why I like writing my stories and novels on index cards, numbering them later when the whole set is complete. Every card is rewritten many times.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Writing
  • Novel
  • Cards

• The only thing which can tell us about the novel is the novel.

  

  Edwin Muir
  • Novel