T. S. Eliot Quotes

the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes

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• Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.

  

  Daniel Burnham
  • Men
  • Magic
  • Blood

• In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Men
  • Character
  • Black

• We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.

  

  Karen Thompson Walker
  • Mind
  • Way
  • Morning

• Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Sun
  • Yellow

• It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Men
  • Military
  • Duty

• I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.

  

  Fab Five Freddy
  • Music
  • Art
  • Table

• All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Men
  • Best
  • Land

• I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • World
  • Art
  • Culture

• If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Mind
  • Love
  • For Her

• Fencing is a game of living chess, a match where reflexes only work in combination with intent, and mind and body must work together at every moment.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Together

• One thing that we learned that we published on our blog post is that uniformly, men lie about their height by almost exactly two inches. So if you look at a plot of census bureau data on the distribution of men's heights in the U.S. and you plot men's heights on OKCupid, it is exactly shifted two inches to the left.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Men
  • Lie
  • Data

• Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Men
  • Women
  • Violence

• Men are what their mothers made them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Mom
  • Mother`s

• It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Mystery

• After studying art, I was a painter for a while and was asked to audition for a movie randomly. I hadn't thought of acting before that.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Art
  • Movie
  • Thought

• Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

  

  Larry Rivers
  • Art
  • You
  • Mood

• All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Men
  • Texas
  • Class

• I'm one of those directors who read reviews, even if they're bad, because I started as a film critic as a cinema student. I indulge in the art of criticism in general.

  

  Luca Guadagnino
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Criticism

• I haven't acquired a taste for green tea, and I don't intend to. I like my coffee black with a little sugar, and it keeps my metabolism up! I don't mind the occasional Gatorade while I'm gymming.

  

  Arjun Rampal
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Black

• Children do have the potential to kill art. But now I think they kill the bad art. At least that is what my son has done for me.

  

  Kevin Wilson
  • Children
  • Done
  • Art

• I'm not really a churchy person, although I do think Jesus was a good bloke.

  

  Jo Brand
  • Good
  • Jesus

• the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Men
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  • Art