T. S. Eliot Quotes

That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

T. S. Eliot

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• I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

  

  O. J. Simpson
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• Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Work
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• I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
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• Experience by itself is not science.

  

  Edmund Husserl
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• I read people; that's one of my strengths. It's not that I can't be fooled, but I'm not fooled often.

  

  Jack Keane
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• You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.

  

  Gavin Newsom
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• What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.

  

  Kate Thompson
  • Trying
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• I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Always
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• Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
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• For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Me
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• Personally I had the opportunity to go on several ride alongs with the LA County Sheriff's Department with some amazing detectives, who were invaluable to me.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Opportunity
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• I used to wear miniskirts with my GB top, and sparkly sandals, and the boys would be like: 'Oh my gosh, this girl cannot be serious.'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Girl
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• Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
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• I've always wanted to make movies that are fever dreams.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Always
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• The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.

  

  Walter Gropius
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• I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.

  

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• I've been in government and politics my entire career, and while I try to keep a level head and a reasonable tone in my commentary, even I can lose my head sometimes and let anger bubble over and burst out. It feels gross, looks ugly, and leaves a lasting mark.

  

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  • Career
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• Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.

  

  R. D. Laing
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• The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• As you age, feelings do diminish.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Age
  • Feelings
  • Diminish

• I am a bit of a 'dreamer,' so I love fantasizing about utopian futures, and I also love the way you can explore big concepts in sci fi.

  

  Rekha Sharma
  • Love
  • Explore
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• A writer is defined by the language in which he writes, and I would stick to that definition.

  

  Joseph Brodsky

• I can't use logic concerning my feelings, my feelings demand musical notes, violins, guitar solos, the stomping of feet, poetic language, metaphors, poetic lines about birds or deserts or tree-crowded forests.

  

  Noah Cicero
  • Feelings
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  • Logic

• That is the worst moment, when you feel you have lost / The desires for all that was most desirable, / Before you are contented with what you can desire; / Before you know what is left to be desired; / And you go on wishing that you could desire / What desire has left behind.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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  • Desire
  • Wish