Gerard Manley Hopkins Quotes
For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.
Nawal El Saadawi -
You get more insight as you get older, on everything.
Taylor Momsen -
I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
Rachael Harris -
I grew up with a lot of exiles from Chile, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Colombia - I grew up with them, and I gained a family; I gained friends.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
You cannot be in pretend for people to like you.
Victoria Azarenka -
If anyone was going to write the definitive account of what the 2008 election meant for women, it would be Rebecca Traister.
Rachel Sklar
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In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
S. I. Hayakawa -
I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.
Halle Berry -
Women put guys through tests all the time.
J. B. Smoove -
The wraith of Sigmund said. 'You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.'
C. S. Lewis -
Among politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for 'To hell with our children.'
Edward Abbey -
I try not to do too much self-analysis apart from when I'm actually paying $170 an hour for it. I try to keep it in the room.
Sia LSD
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I have no opinion on 48 frames a second at all. I'd be completely unsuitable to talk about that.
Martin Freeman -
Monsters have always been built in this sport. I just don't believe the hype. You've got to show me.
Andre Ward -
I'm a matter-of-fact, office-hours writer.
Jim Crace -
There are cultures that can only picture their origins and not their ends. Some are obsessed by both. Two other positions are possible: only picturing one's end - our own culture; picturing neither beginning nor end - the coming culture.
Jean Baudrillard -
Each generation of scientists also depends upon its own environment.
Owen Chamberlain -
People like me, who care about printing, constitute the tiniest lunatic fringe in the nation.
Leonard Baskin
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
Primary and especially secondary education is extremely important in preventing trafficking, it allows children to develop critical thinking skills to be able to defend themselves from traffickers and to have the skills that will enable them to have gainful employment to be able to support their families in other ways than being sexually exploited.
Mira Sorvino -
I'm so proud of myself. I worked with anger, with the darkest things in the world.
Courtney Love -
A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid or distasteful in itself. He breaks his engagements, leaves his letters unanswered, neglects his family duties incorrigibly, because he is powerless to turn his attention down and back from those more interesting trains of imagery with which his genius constantly occupies his mind.
William James -
For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.
Gerard Manley Hopkins