Eleanor Farjeon Quotes
Old sundial, you stand here for Time: For Love, the vine that round your base, Its tendrils twines, and dares to climb, And lay one flower-capped spray in grace, Without the asking on your cold, Unsmiling and unfrowning face.
Eleanor Farjeon
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
Eckhart Tolle
The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
Karl Liebknecht
I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
Kate Walsh
You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
Caitlin Moran
The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
Barry McGuire
God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
Imelda Marcos
The pleasure from acting comes from having great writing to work with. If it's well written and the character is interesting, then, as an actor, that's the raw material I need.
Aasif Mandvi
For the better part of two centuries, outsiders have been offering explanations that range from racist to learned-sounding - the supposed inferiority of blacks, the heritage of slavery, overpopulation - for why Haiti remains the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.
Adam Hochschild
You get into this situation, performing for T.V., where you have to speak with utter sincerity. It's just like the radio. You have to say it like you mean it, even though the thing you're saying is actually planned out.
Ira Glass
I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.
Dan Hicks
I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute.
Nancy Jo Sales
My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.
Karen Robards
I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.
P. J. Harvey
If every effect of any new products or methods were required to be known before they could be produced and marketed, they would not be true innovations - and thus not represent new knowledge of what people would like, if offered.
Edmund Phelps
She had a beaky nose, tight thin lips, and her eye could have been used for splitting logs in the teak forests of Borneo.
P. G. Wodehouse
Unendowed with wealth or pity, Little birds with scarlet legs Sitting on their speckled eggs, Eye each flu-infected city. Altogether elsewhere, vast Herds of reindeer move across Miles and miles of golden moss, Silently and very fast.
W. H. Auden
Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.
Edward Abbey
...it’s important to remember how fortunate we are as a country to have a currency and a bond market that is seen in every way as a source of strength and it’s a huge responsibility for us to keep it that way.
Lawrence Summers
Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.
Blaise Pascal
I think in any form of acting, you're always well served if you've done theater.
Jim Parsons
I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.
Joan Armatrading
My heart just keeps getting bigger and bigger.
Mariska Hargitay
The Savior’s words are simple, yet their meaning is profound and deeply significant. We are to love God and to love and care for our neighbors as ourselves. Imagine what good we can do in the world if we all join together, united as followers of Christ, anxiously and busily responding to the needs of others and serving those around us — our families, our friends, our neighbors, our fellow citizens.
M. Russell Ballard
Old sundial, you stand here for Time: For Love, the vine that round your base, Its tendrils twines, and dares to climb, And lay one flower-capped spray in grace, Without the asking on your cold, Unsmiling and unfrowning face.
Eleanor Farjeon
