Geoffrey Hill Quotes

Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone

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• I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Play
  • Working
  • Class

• When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Work
  • Book
  • Lost

• We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Problem
  • Suffering
  • Same

• Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • Money
  • Comedy

• Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Great
  • Day
  • End

• You can cage the singer but not the song.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Song
  • You
  • Singer

• Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • People
  • Family
  • Searching

• I always feel more comfortable in chaotic surroundings. I don't know why that is. I think order is dull. There is something about this kind of desire for order, particularly in Anglo Saxon cultures, that drive out this ability for the streets to become a really exotic, amorphous, chaotic, organic place where ideas can, basically, develop.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Why
  • Think
  • Know

• You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • You
  • Moment
  • Diamonds

• A lot of times, I don't just do juice; I do the whole thing blended to keep the fiber.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Just
  • Times
  • Juice

• I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.

  

  Barbara Steele
  • Never
  • Had
  • Agent

• The death of Garang has unfortunately unleashed emotions of anger; some genuine, others cultivated by elements who wanted to pit one group of Sudanese against another.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Death
  • Emotions
  • Anger

• The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Proud
  • Beauty
  • Diversity

• I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Fun
  • Hurt

• A king’s son has nothing but inferiors, each one a potential assassin.

  

  Tad Williams
  • Son
  • King

• Woman, self-centred, would never be absorbed by any relation it would be only an experience to her as to man. It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to Woman is her whole existence; she also is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • She
  • Experience
  • Truth

• Marxists get up early in the morning to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Morning

• Joy Division finished the 1970s on a high. Our debut album, 'Unknown Pleasures,' was doing well; we'd just finished a hugely enjoyable and successful tour. The band's profile was higher than it had ever been, and it seemed to be growing by the day.

  

  Bernard Sumner New Order
  • High
  • Growing
  • Joy

• It's critical to show that we can meet our commitment to students with disabilities without raising taxes and without increasing the deficit. In the past, there's been strong support for full funding and I'm still hearing that from many of my colleagues.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Past
  • Strong
  • Support

• I was sent there by the Free Congress Committee, headed by Paul Weyrich. Fred Smith and I were sent down as observers, with reporters' credentials, so we could witness the events.

  

  Dixie Lee Ray
  • Free

• If to state this case is not to decide it, the law has departed further from the meaning of language than is appropriate for a government that is supposed to rule (and to be restrained) through the written word.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Law

• A career is like a house: it's made of many bricks, and each brick has the same value, because without any one of them, the house would collapse.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Career
  • House
  • Value

• Video games paid for my house. What am I saying? Go ahead and keep playing!

  

  Ernest Cline
  • House
  • Paid
  • Video Games

• Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone

  

  Geoffrey Hill
  • House
  • Stones
  • Laurels