George Gilfillan Quotes
Every poet is partly creator and partly the creature of circumstances.
George Gilfillan
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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In a sense, I feel like the job of the artist at all times is essentially the same, which is simply to tell the truth. I mean, I'm nervous about any prescriptions for what a writer should or shouldn't do.
Tony Kushner
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A scientist with a poet's command of language, Cristina Eisenberg writes with precision and passion . . . takes her reader on a breathtaking, sometimes heartbreaking tour of the planet from the Gulf of Maine to the Amazonian rain forests, the tropical coral reefs to old growth forests of the Northwest as well as rivers, lakes, and wetlands. I found the wealth of information not only accessible but riveting . . . Eisenberg's powerful, beautifully written book . . . has the potential to open many people's eyes, minds, and hearts.
Elizabeth Cunningham
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For the godly poet must be chaste himself, but there is no need for his verses to be so.
Catullus
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Every poet is partly creator and partly the creature of circumstances.
George Gilfillan
