George Gilfillan Quotes

Every poet is partly creator and partly the creature of circumstances.

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• I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Think
  • Science
  • Mistake

• To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Dream
  • Eyes
  • Taken

• I'm big into not drawing conclusions for people. I think that's what makes for the most exciting, compelling films. I get bored when the politics of the filmmaker are the subject of the film that I see.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • People
  • Politics
  • Drawing

• If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.

  

  Wale
  • America
  • Hate
  • Religion

• When I was 17, I decided I was going to leave home.

  

  Zach Roerig
  • Home
  • Going
  • Leave

• At some point in our life, each of us is very likely to be a care getter or a care giver or both.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Life

• If our opinions rest upon solid ground, those who attack them do not make us angry, but themselves ridiculous.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Rest
  • Angry

• You get to a certain age and you can't judge yourself on your dad or your parents.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Age
  • Parents
  • Dad

• Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Broken
  • Fly
  • Wings

• The peace that Jesus gives is never engineered by circumstances on the outside.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Peace
  • Jesus
  • Circumstances

• 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
  • Morning
  • Paper
  • Journalists

• 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
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• 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
  • Life
  • Playing
  • Court

• [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
  • People
  • Music
  • Change

• Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party.

  

  Vivian Stanshall
  • Party
  • Gay
  • Sausage

• The last time I was in a gym, Dukakis was running for president.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Time
  • Running
  • Gym

• My latest theory is that it's - well, I describe it as, like, being in an apartment with kind of thin walls. And in the apartment next door, they've got a radio tuned constantly on - tuned to a really cool radio station. It's on all the time. And you can just hear it coming through the wall all the time.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Kind
  • Wall
  • Doors

• Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Road
  • Language
  • Creator

• The player envies only the player, the poet envies only the poet.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Player
  • Poet
  • Envy

• Every poet is partly creator and partly the creature of circumstances.

  

  George Gilfillan
  • Circumstances
  • Poet
  • Creator