T. S. Eliot Quotes

Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

T. S. Eliot

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• My views on everything from welfare to a balanced budget to affirmative action can be traced to what Buddy and Helen Watts taught me as a young boy growing up poor but proud in Eufaula.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Action

• When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Thinking
  • Waiting
  • Coffee

• My narrative style centers around intimate, highly subjective depictions of personal experience and internal landscapes. In 'March,' everything fell into place as soon as I began identifying strongly with John Lewis as a young boy and saw how we shared the same kind of gravity and intensity as youngsters.

  

  Nate Powell
  • Experience
  • Style
  • Boy

• I wanted very much to be Miles Davis when I was a boy, but without the practice. It just looked like an endless road.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Practice
  • Road
  • Boy

• The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Rain
  • Short
  • Forest

• Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Waiting
  • Child

• My manager called me and said, 'Hey, there's a series at Neflix.' I'm like, 'Netflix? Oh, boy.' At that time, it was just a strange thing to hear. It's like going, 'There's a series at Blockbuster.'

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Boy
  • Strange

• I go running three times a week - outside in the park, come rain or shine, and I hate every moment of it. I hate everything about it. But I know it's important for health reasons and the reason why I run, in particular, is because my stage work is like cardiovascular work so I don't want to lose my breath on stage.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Work
  • Important
  • Why

• When the game is on, I want to be on the field, but I'm willing to catch, walk, run. I just want to be there. I'll even be water boy.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Game
  • Water
  • Boy

• If we see a sad rain, it doesn't mean the rain is sad, but it means we see it. That's an easily dismissible kind of projection. But what I'm struggling to say, is that we take that rain in through our own hearts and emotions and senses and skin, and all those filters have an impact.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Sad
  • Rain
  • Impact

• Some coaches prefer players who will just do whatever he tells them to. It's like, if you're at school with a load of 10-year-old boys and you tell them to jump, everyone will start to jump. But the intelligent boy will ask, 'Why should I jump? Why?' That can be difficult for a lot of coaches, and I understand that.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • School
  • Why
  • Boy

• He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Dad
  • Boy
  • Brother

• This is one of the factors that also made me very much want to make this film, apart from the fact that I loved it. If the boy hadn't been Jewish and the man hadn't been Muslim, it wouldn't have made any difference to the film. I don't think it's relevant, really.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • Want
  • Man
  • Me

• 'Vicky Donor' proved that the audience was waiting for well-scripted funny films.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Funny
  • Waiting
  • Audience

• People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Dog
  • Rain

• Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • God
  • Done
  • May

• Boy, it is not fun suffering in this body of weak flesh, but Jesus is straightening out all my crooked places.

  

  Vanity
  • Fun
  • Jesus
  • Suffering

• On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.

  

  Sam Ewing
  • Decision
  • Waiting
  • Down

• If I was a boy, nobody would care that I worked out six, seven hours a day when I was 9 years old, no? Why were people always saying 'poor little girl?' I liked to work out and always did more than I was asked to.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• The destruction caused by Hurricane Harvey is unlike anything my home state has ever experienced. As long as I live, I'll never forget those images of elderly women waiting in waist-deep water to be rescued.

  

  Jeb Hensarling
  • Long
  • Live
  • Women

• At 21, my career took a comedic turn when I was cast in a new Broadway play called 'Brooklyn Boy,' by Donald Margulies, which was equal parts funny and sad. I realized that the more seriously I expressed my character's feelings, the funnier the scene became.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • Character
  • Career
  • Funny

• I had the pleasure of working for Hart Hanson as the writers' assistant on the Fox show 'Bones.' He was always willing to take five minutes in the kitchen and answer questions I had about writing and the business. Looking back now, I realize he might have just been politely waiting for the coffee to brew.

  

  Anders Holm
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Waiting

• Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Waiting
  • Boy
  • Rain