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

• I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

  

  Abu Abbas
  • War
  • Feel
  • Mistakes

• You can cage the singer but not the song.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Song
  • You
  • Singer

• I like almost everything, even country twang, disco, blue grass and accordions.

  

  Pat Mastelotto Mr. Mister
  • Country
  • Blue
  • Grass

• 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

• In the lead-up to competitions, I just watch box sets and DVDs and play 'Candy Crush.'

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Play
  • Crush

• 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

• There is in reality no such thing as modern art. Art is carried on up and down in immense cycles through centuries and civilizations.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Up
  • Art
  • Reality

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

  

  Tad Williams
  • Son
  • King

• Information on the Internet must be as free as in the newspapers.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Free
  • Information
  • Internet

• I can't imagine how traumatic it must be to have a gun pointed to your head for no reason at all.

  

  Eric Reid
  • Gun
  • Image
  • No Reason

• I don't want to see people decorating a house or digging a garden. As for guys like Jonathan Ross, he got an award there last Christmas. What for? He doesn't sing, dance or tell jokes, does he?

  

  Ian St. John
  • People
  • House
  • Dance

• The camel is an ugly animal, seen from above. Its shoulders slope formless like a sack, its silly little ears and fluff of bleached curls behind them have a respectable, boarding-house look, like some faded neatness that dresses for propriety but never dressed for love.

  

  Freya Stark
  • House
  • Animal
  • Ugly

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

  

  Geoffrey Hill
  • House
  • Stones
  • Laurels