George Ticknor Quotes

Communism is the flower of idleness.

George Ticknor

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• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

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• I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

  

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• I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.

  

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• Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

  

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• I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

  

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• I am an African and I am very proud of that.

  

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• As long as I can remember, I've been writing - first poems, then stories, and by my early teenage years I was also in love with sailing.

  

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• The beer was empty and our tongues were tiredAnd running out of things to say.She gave a kiss to me as I got outAnd I watched her drive away.Just for a moment I was back at schoolAnd felt that old familiar painAnd as I turned to make my way back homeThe snow turned into rain.

  

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  • She
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• I'm here to change the world, and if I am not, I am probably wasting my time.

  

  Utah Phillips
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• So I've learnt that the world is 4,500 million years old. If you're very religious, then it's not 4,500 million years old, it's 6,000 years old. One of these is not correct.

  

  Eddie Izzard
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• On his first hand he wore rings of stone,Iron, Amber, Wood and Bone.There were rings unseen on his second hand,One was blood in a flowing band,One was air all whisper thin,And the ring of ice had a flaw within.Full faintly shone the ring of flame,And the final ring was without name.

  

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• The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.

  

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• For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.

  

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• When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation.

  

  Laurence J. Peter
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• My public caricature - that of a self-confident alpha male - is only partly accurate.

  

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• It's not easy. I make snap judgments, too, and I start to write people off. And then I start to remind myself of how I'm constantly asking judges not to write people off. And so then I try to resist it.

  

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• Probably 90 percent of the stuff I make has inevitably been done before... Whether it's playing Hamlet, which has been on the go for 400 years, or pieces from the cinematic world that also have been essayed before, I feel released by that.

  

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• Ever since I was a little kid, I was competitive.

  

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• I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Live
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• Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance ... (But) the best fantasies pull aside the velvet curtain of mere appearance. ... In most instances, fantasy ultimately returns us to our own now re-enchanted world, reminding us that it is neither prosaic nor meaningless, and that how we live and what we do truly matters.

  

  Michael Dirda
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• There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

  

  John Muir
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• In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • People
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• There is something horrible about a flower; This, broken in my hand, is one of those He threw it in just now; it will not live another hour; There are thousands more; you do not miss a rose.

  

  Charlotte Mew
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• Communism is the flower of idleness.

  

  George Ticknor
  • Flower
  • Communism
  • Idleness