George Gilfillan Quotes
Every poet is partly creator and partly the creature of circumstances.
George Gilfillan
Quotes to Explore
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If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.
John Lancaster Spalding
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You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.
Ellie Goulding
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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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In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The easier things are to buy, the more we consume.
Erik Qualman
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I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.
Merle Haggard
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The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.
Albert Camus
