Nathaniel Parker Willis Quotes

Your love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies- Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks of pies! You lie down to your shady slumber And wake with a bug in your ear, And your damsel that walks in the morning Is shod like a mountaineer.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

• Life
• Morning
• Lying
• Grace
• Simplicity
• Hungry
• Shady

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• I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Live
  • Trying

• I never edit the songs that come out. And they tend to come out as a whole. The closest thing I have ever done to editing them is just cutting out a verse, but never rewriting lyrics.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Done
  • Never
  • Cutting

• I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Literature
  • See
  • Fiction

• Enjoy every sandwich.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Enjoy
  • Every
  • Sandwich

• The notion of religious liberty is that you cannot be forced to participate in a religious ceremony that's not of your choosing simply because you're out-voted.

  

  Ira Glasser
  • You
  • Religious
  • Liberty

• Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Up
  • Women
  • Children

• When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Thought
  • Gay
  • Now

• A school out of Canberra sends me a term's worth of work. I sit on the couch by myself and complete it and send it back.

  

  Callan McAuliffe
  • Work
  • School
  • Myself

• Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Writing
  • Patience
  • Boring

• In fact, there was general agreement that minds can exist on nonbiological substrates and that algorithms are of central importance to the existence of minds.

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Existence
  • Exist
  • Agreement

• The Internet, Facebook, synagogue pamphlets, and the plethora of TV channels and cellular networks in our lives increasingly blur the boundary between the public and private sphere.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Internet
  • Facebook
  • Blur

• I've never met a person I couldn't call a beauty.

  

  Andy Warhol

• Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off.

  

  Frank Shorter
  • Help
  • Running
  • Blow

• There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

  

  Chanakya
  • Mind
  • Mercy
  • Contentment

• People would look at me weird. You know, like, 'Why is this guy's hands always in his pockets?' But I was embarrassed by the size of my hands.

  

  Jerry Rice
  • People
  • Why
  • Guy

• If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

  

  Kenneth L. Pike

• If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Freedom

• If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Life
  • Real
  • Feedback

• It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Life
  • Up

• Many people come to reinvention when life changes around them, but people come in all different stripes. I'm oriented to change.

  

  Jane Pauley
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• Whenever you went into any place where there was Michael Jackson footage at Sony, it was like going through Homeland Security.

  

  Kenny Ortega

• Mr. Richardson’s endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic.

  

  James Carville
  • Ironic
  • Anniversary

• Your love in a cottage is hungry, Your vine is a nest for flies- Your milkmaid shocks the Graces, And simplicity talks of pies! You lie down to your shady slumber And wake with a bug in your ear, And your damsel that walks in the morning Is shod like a mountaineer.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Life
  • Morning
  • Lying