T. S. Eliot Quotes
Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.T. S. Eliot
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
Damien Hirst -
We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
Arthur Daniel Miller -
When belief in a god dies, the god dies.
Harlan Ellison -
Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.
Waylon Jennings -
I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
Kangana Ranaut -
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
Bat for Lashes -
There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Saint Augustine -
I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
Kate Winslet -
My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
Abby Wambach -
The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
Natalie Dormer
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
Samantha Morton -
The things we remember best are those better forgotten.
Baltasar Gracian -
The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!
Jacki Weaver -
The claim that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked because fundamentalists hate our prosperity and freedom is a ridiculous lie.
L. Neil Smith -
If you care about yourself and what you do, you get nervous about it. You just don't take the money and go home.
Rachel Ticotin -
The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
J. D. Hayworth
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Then you hang up the phone and feel badly for upsetting thingsAnd crawl back into bed to dream of a timeWhen your heart was open wide and you love things just becauseLike the sick and dying
Jenny Lewis -
What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
Larry Ellison -
Preparatory human beings. - I welcome all signs that a more virile, warlike age is about to begin, which will restore honour to courage above all! For this age shall prepare the way for one yet higher, and it shall gather the strength that this higher age will require some day - the age that will carry heroism into the search for knowledge and that will wage wars for the sake of ideas and their consequences.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Anything that we can destroy, but are unable to make is, in a sense, sacred, and all our 'explanations' of it do not explain anything.
E. F. Schumacher -
Lord, let me not live to be useless!
John Wesley -
Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning.
T. S. Eliot