Geoffrey Hill Quotes

As estimated, you died. Things marched, sufficient, to that end. Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented terror, so many routine cries.

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• I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Me
  • Try
  • Escape

• Regular martial arts is traditional, with no music and no flips choreograhed into it. But extreme martial arts is choreographed to music. It's very fast-beat uptempo, and you put a lot of acrobatic maneuvers into the routine.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Music
  • You
  • Routine

• The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Death
  • Terror

• The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • Terror
  • Afghanistan

• I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Way
  • Bible
  • Routine

• You don't talk to terror organizations!

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • You
  • Talk
  • Terror

• The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Force
  • Terror
  • Superior

• An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Hours
  • Lifetime
  • Terror

• It gives you hope in salvation and perspective in the life that we live today. It's nice to know there's good out there in a world full of terror and evil.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine.

  

  A.J. Cronin
  • Friendship
  • Circles
  • Routine

• We should fight terror, by all means, but not at the cost of cutting off any chance of talks with the pragmatists.

  

  Ami Ayalon
  • Chance
  • Cutting
  • Terror

• I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Sacrifice
  • Eternity

• He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hero
  • Principles
  • Terror

• The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Reason
  • Afraid
  • Terror

• Right now, we do not act as a true society. We act as a world under terror, just scrambling to survive.

  

  Jaden Smith
  • World
  • True
  • Society

• It's unfortunate and unexpected. It's not a routine occurrence. That's why it's shocking.

  

  John Whiting
  • Routine

• I do films which get me out of my comedian routine so that I don't get bored being a stand-up comedian. And with films, it's here today, gone tomorrow. So stand-up comedy is here to stay for me.

  

  Vir Das
  • Films
  • Routine
  • Stand-up comedy

• What is this terror? what is this ecstasy? he thought to himself. What is it that fills me with this extraordinary excitement? It is Clarissa, he said. For there she was.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Terror
  • Extraordinary
  • Excitement

• Therefore,” he reasoned with himself, “it is love coming to claim me: I have been so long without love, hated at home, living in terror of my children’s lives: it is pure, tender, normal love.

  

  Christina Stead
  • Children
  • Love
  • Home

• ...if I had been told what I was to learn through these protracted sufferings, I am afraid I should have shrunk back in terror and so have lost all the sweet lessons God proposed to teach me. As it is, He has led me on, step by step, answering my prayers in His own way; and I cannot bear to have a single human being doubt that it has been a perfect way. I love and adore it just as it is.

  

  Elizabeth Prentiss
  • Learn
  • Lessons
  • Human being

• Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Terror
  • Bones
  • Draw

• The Beatles were a group made up of four very complex men, and my small hand could not have broken these men up.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Up
  • Men
  • Small

• The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message. (p. 8)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Light

• As estimated, you died. Things marched, sufficient, to that end. Just so much Zyklon and leather, patented terror, so many routine cries.

  

  Geoffrey Hill
  • Terror
  • Routine
  • Estimated