Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes

I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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• When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Young
  • Finish
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• I'm just trying to have fun, and maybe the way I hold myself kind of freaks people out. I don't feel like an outsider, and I think my friends feel the same way I do. Now that we're playing to larger audiences, maybe we're weird to some people. But I'm trying to express what I am.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • People
  • Trying
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• I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Work
  • Believe
  • I Believe

• Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.

  

  Edmund White
  • Success
  • Me
  • Boy

• There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Thought
  • Nothing
  • Absence

• Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.

  

  Yuna
  • Racism
  • Generations
  • Fairness

• I've been really lucky that I've been exposed to a lot of lovely, talented people who are not jerks, and I would like to continue that streak.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • People
  • Lucky
  • Lovely

• Of Guizot A Puritan born in France by mistake.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Mistake

• Gabby called it 'Congress on Your Corner' - just an updated version of government of and by and for the people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People

• Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

  

  E. B. White
  • Grandma

• A process which led from the amœba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress – though whether the amœba would agree with this opinion is not known.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Opinion
  • Progress

• So I humbly accept the honor, keeping in mind the words of a British playwright, John Mortimer it was, 'No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense and relatively clean fingernails.' Well at best I've got one of the two of those.

  

  Bono U2
  • Mind
  • Words
  • Law

• Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • God

• I am not alone. I am free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody, I don't have to be a first to anybody. I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Free
  • Alone

• What I realized on the 'Grasshopper' was that I wasn't sure that I liked being in every shot. It wasn't fun.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Fun

• I was devastated when I had to go blonde.

  

  Margot Robbie
  • Blonde

• The communism of Karl Marx would probably be actually the best for everybody as a whole. But what he didn't figure into was human nature, and that's what corrupts it.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • Nature

• The majority of advertising agency creatives are creative people, but we've disciplined ourselves to think within traditional formats. I want to change that.

  

  David Droga
  • People

• I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' I hate to waste time, so I spent my time by writing about my life on the premise that I might be able to pitch those as short essays to magazines. It wasn't until later that I realized that I was writing a book.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Very few of us trust our immediate connection with nature, or the intuitive intelligence of our body. All too easily, we align ourselves with the logical world of Masculine intelligence. As a culture, we have become so Masculine that we are much more comfortable with analytical problem-solving than with ecstatic dancing!

  

  David Deida
  • World
  • Nature
  • Culture

• Stark looked strong and healthy and totally gorgeous. I was distracting myself by wondering what exactly Scottish guys did, or didn't, wear under those kilts when he turned to face me. His smile lit up his eyes. "I can practically hear you thinking.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Strong

• The government of Sudan, employing a back channel direct from its president to the Central Intelligence Agency, offered in the early spring of 1996 to arrest Osama bin Laden and place him in Saudi custody, according to officials and former officials in all three countries.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Spring
  • Intelligence
  • Back

• I'll tell you," said Beatty, smiling at his cards. "That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Children
  • Blow

• I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow.

  

  Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • Spring
  • Blow
  • Failing