David Daiches Quotes

In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words are so chosen as logically to bar out all possibilities save one.

David Daiches

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• I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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  • Myself

• I don't want to lose what I've won.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Want
  • Lose
  • Won

• I must say that it's easy to write nice things about Chicago because it's that kind of town.

  

  Sammy Cahn
  • Nice
  • Kind
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• And it's sad because it's like a surprise to people - almost an anomaly - when artists are actually refined and trained on an instrument. That's the last thing people think about.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • People
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• History will treat me right.

  

  Ralph Abernathy
  • History
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• I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because it's not necessarily the easiest of lives.

  

  Jack Davenport
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• You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• Religion must completely encircle the spirit of ethical man like his element, and this luminous chaos of divine thoughts and feelings is called enthusiasm.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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• I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Remember
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• It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

• My father used to tape 'Top of the Pops' for me every Sunday, and I would sit in my bedroom, write down the lyrics of all of my favourite songs, and sing along. I was always singing in my bedroom with a hairbrush.

  

  Bonnie Tyler
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• Well, anything can happen and it happened to me. I learned everybody has a story.

  

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• Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

  

  John Buchan
  • Life
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• With 'Black Swan,' the ballerina saga flips its tiara and goes on a hallucinatory bender, a scary acid trip where transfiguration and disfiguration meet.

  

  James Wolcott
  • Black
  • Scary

• People only see permissiveness in the sense of having more.

  

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• I'm not a negative person, but every role I go for I don't think I'll get.

  

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• Watch the turtle. He only moves forward by sticking his neck out.

  

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• I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

  

  Alan Alda
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  • Person
  • Angry

• The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • God
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• At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.

  

  Kevin Garnett
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• You touch on a disheartening truth. People never want to be told anything they do not believe already.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • People
  • Believe
  • Truth

• Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • People
  • Want
  • Looking

• While there are manners and compliments we do not meet, we do not teach one another the lessons of honesty and sincerity that the brutes do, or of steadiness and solidity that the rocks do. The fault is commonly mutual, however; for we do not habitually demand any more of each other.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Honesty

• In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words are so chosen as logically to bar out all possibilities save one.

  

  David Daiches
  • Poetry
  • Possibility
  • Definite