T. S. Eliot Quotes

Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.

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• Actors, to a certain extent, never grow up, you see. It's an extension of being out in the back yard with a stick, only you're being paid to do it. It's borderline madness.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • Up
  • Never
  • Grow

• One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to understand why a person who is a flesh-eater should object to one kind of flesh, namely cow's flesh. This is an anomaly which call for explanation.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Why
  • Understand
  • Difficult

• No matter how you cut them, paste them, rotate them, or distort them, lip syncing and air-guitar playing are fundamentally foolish activities, and anyone seen to be engaging in them with anything approaching a straight face is, by definition, taking herself or himself much too seriously.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • You
  • Air
  • Matter

• Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Wisdom

• My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Done

• No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Book
  • Hell
  • Sales

• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Change

• I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • School
  • Lost
  • Village

• I used to be affected by criticism thrown at me, and I would get really down. But I got to a point where I just decided to go for it, no matter what negativity is around you.

  

  Yuna
  • Me
  • Criticism
  • Down

• The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Black
  • Community
  • Progress

• I was really, really star-struck when I met Prince.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Star
  • Really
  • Prince

• I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Parent

• The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Family
  • Christian
  • Sin

• I think I learned about the relationship between books and life from Margaret Mitchell.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Life
  • Think
  • Relationship

• I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Up
  • Women
  • Mother

• As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Believe
  • America
  • Responsibility

• I have to be working, doing things. That's the way I grew up and the way I was taught.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Up
  • Way
  • Doing

• In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Tradition
  • View
  • Islam

• I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Time
  • School
  • Nice

• Welcome to Morganville.You'll never want to leave.And even if you do...well, you can't. Sorry about that.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Sorry
  • Leave
  • Morganville

• Let us break through some of the inhibitions that have existed to talk together across the flimsy lines of separation of faith, to talk together, to study together, to pray together, and ultimately to sing together His Holy name.

  

  Joe Lieberman
  • Together
  • Faith
  • Study

• Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • People
  • Good
  • Reality

• I haven't actually studied acting at all.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Acting
  • Actually
  • Studied

• Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Faith
  • Law
  • Army