Geoffrey Hill Quotes

... one of the things the tyrant most cunningly engineers is the gross over-simplification of language, because propaganda requires that the minds of the collective respond primitively to slogans of incitement.

Geoffrey Hill

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• Propaganda
• Collectives
• Simplification
• Incitement

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• We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • May
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• If there's one thing that I've done on purpose it's to take whatever job, so long as it's interesting and challenging, whether it's theatre, radio, TV or film.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Long
  • Done
  • Job

• I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Think
  • Intelligent
  • I Think

• You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.

  

  Barry Mann
  • You
  • Accept
  • Rejection

• I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Yourself

• Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Fall
  • Impossible
  • Compromise

• We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Small
  • Purpose
  • Door

• I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Think
  • Want
  • Young

• The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Heart
  • Car
  • Cancer

• I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.

  

  Ted Rall
  • American
  • Society
  • First

• I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Time
  • Job
  • Day

• Beauty is boring because it is predictable.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Beauty
  • Boring
  • Predictable

• I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Up
  • Today
  • Parents

• We live in a globalising world. That means that all of us, consciously or not, depend on each other. Whatever we do or refrain from doing affects the lives of people who live in places we'll never visit.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Age
  • Never
  • Young

• When you're an athlete and you play every day and are conditioning yourself every year, the aging is gradual.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Day
  • Yourself
  • Year

• I exercise five days a week at home.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Home
  • Exercise
  • Week

• I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• Shakespeare language is fantastic, and to be honest, you don't need to do anything to Shakespeare.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • You
  • Language
  • Need

• Winter, spring and summer did not accommodate themselves to one's mood as autumn did. They lacked its gentleness.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Mood
  • Gentleness
  • Accommodate

• Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Understanding
  • Balance
  • Perspective

• Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Lasts
  • Cliche
  • Plague

• I tried to learn the Finnish language, which is really, really, really hard, and I realized that if I want to really learn it, I need to move to Finland.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • Language
  • Learn
  • Finnish

• ... one of the things the tyrant most cunningly engineers is the gross over-simplification of language, because propaganda requires that the minds of the collective respond primitively to slogans of incitement.

  

  Geoffrey Hill
  • Language
  • Propaganda
  • Collectives