George Gilfillan Quotes
Every poet is partly creator and partly the creature of circumstances.
George Gilfillan
Quotes to Explore
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings
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The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.
Oswald Chambers
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I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.
Alan Alda
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what they told me, nearly every inmate in the prison didn't do it. Several thousand people had been locked up unjustly and, by an incredible coincidence, all in the same prison. On the other hand, they knew an awful lot about how to knife somebody.
Alan Alda
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If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
Arthur Ashe
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[I want to be] Something that really touched you - and as far as image and change goes, I just really want a lot of people to respect my music and treat me... [as] inspiration.
ASAP Rocky
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Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered.
Dale Carnegie
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The latest political rumor, North Korea ruler Kim Jong Il is close to naming his successor. Yeah, he said the only person with glasses big enough to replace me is Nicole Richie.
Conan O'Brien
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A very scurvy fellow.
William Shakespeare
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We will read all the stories about how tough he was and all the rest of it, but I think he was a tremendously compassionate man as well.
Eddie McGuire
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Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it.
Edgar Alwin Payne
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The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.
Eugene Ionesco
