T. S. Eliot Quotes

I am moved by fancies that are curledAround these images, and cling:The notion of some infinitely gentleInfinitely suffering thing.

T. S. Eliot

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• My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

  

  Ice T
  • Live
  • Mother
  • Father

• Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Money
  • Fashion
  • Forget

• Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.

  

  Yuri Andropov
  • Industry
  • Modern
  • Slow

• I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Together
  • Day
  • End

• The student will try to defy the master. Always.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Always
  • Try
  • Student

• Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • You
  • Listening

• You get to a point where everything is so important. One day you have 'Letterman,' and the next day you're at the MTV Movie Awards, and the next day you have a sold-out show for over 15,000 people. You can't cancel anything, because it's just too much to let everyone down, which is an interesting thing about being in a bigger band.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Important
  • Movie

• If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.

  

  Edmund White
  • World
  • Different
  • Writing

• My original aim after 'The X Factor' was to earn enough money in a year to make the whole experience worth it - you know, buy a car, a flat.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Money
  • Experience
  • Car

• Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Baby
  • Worthy
  • Boom

• I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Work
  • Think
  • Single

• Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People
  • Society
  • Legal

• The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Life
  • Work
  • Understanding

• Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Hand
  • Suffering
  • Humanity

• I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • People
  • Music
  • Rock

• I have a lot of anxiety about the red carpet. As a woman, it's uncomfortable to be in a position in which people are judging you, looking at what you're wearing, and criticizing you - not necessarily in a negative way.

  

  Fiona Gubelmann
  • People
  • Woman
  • Red

• Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Good
  • Never

• I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • Failure
  • Process

• All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.

  

  Jill Scott
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Character

• I see myself as a comic but the acting helps sell tickets for gigs.

  

  Alan Davies

• At times like that it's difficult to remember what's at stake, that history is in the making. As a player you feel so cut off sometimes, it can be tough... Which is why it is an enormous advantage to play at home.

  

  Michel Platini
  • Home
  • Remember
  • Player

• I appreciate a slight yield, lightness of weight, some motion if possible, because in moving about, the human body determines... the comfort and the measurements of its environment... the human measure is still the strongest factor. But coming back to the chair, there are certain motions we go through - we like to lean back, like to toss things - and if the chair's adaptable it responds and it's almost like wearing a comfortable coat; you really don't know you have it on.

  

  Harry Bertoia
  • Moving
  • Environment
  • Appreciate

• If you fail to report within the next 12 hours. you will be terminated. If you attack any humans, you will be terminated. If you attempt to remove the tracking device, you will be terminated. We look forward to working with you.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Humans
  • Hours
  • Failing

• I am moved by fancies that are curledAround these images, and cling:The notion of some infinitely gentleInfinitely suffering thing.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Suffering