Alexander Pope Quotes

Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake, And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake.

Alexander Pope

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• I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Girl
  • I Can
  • Hopeless

• I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.

  

  Verite
  • Future
  • Career
  • Want

• A belief may be larger than a fact.

  

  Vannevar Bush
  • May
  • Belief
  • Fact

• Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • People
  • Women
  • Parents

• I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.

  

  Natalie Babbitt
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Childhood

• Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wisdom
  • Yourself
  • Enlightenment

• I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Write

• Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Music
  • Strong
  • Spiritual

• I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • School
  • High
  • Senior

• A lot of my work is about what's abstract and what's pictorial. Is it bubblegum, or is it an abstract painting using bubblegum? The energy comes from walking that line and watching things dip this way and that.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Work
  • Energy
  • Painting

• Nothing is impossible in this world. Firm determination, it is said, can move heaven and earth. Things appear far beyond one's power, because one cannot set his heart on any arduous project due to want of strong will.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • World
  • Heart
  • Power

• Frank Miller is more of a visionary than any director I've ever worked with, and he achieves that vision better than anyone I've ever worked with.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Vision
  • Better
  • Visionary

• I'm a full-time writer, which means I have the entire day to get my work done. But that can also be bad, because that means I have the entire day to get in my way.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • You
  • Thought
  • Point

• 'You have been allowing challenges to destroy you instead of you to destroy challenges. When challenges come – my God has the final say, not my ability or knowledge.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Knowledge

• Self-pity? I see no moral objections to it, the smell drives people away, but that's a practical objection, and occasionally an advantage.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • People
  • Moral

• Mischief moves somewhere near and I must blast it with my magic!

  

  Jack Vance
  • Magic

• I really desperately want to write and direct my own movie.

  

  Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Movie

• A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!

  

  Billy Sunday
  • Men
  • Women
  • Today

• A bargain is in its very essence a hostile transaction do not all men try to abate the price of all they buy? I contend that a bargain even between brethren is a declaration of war.

  

  Lord Byron
  • War
  • Price
  • Transaction

• Sometimes you meet someone, and they seem great, they seem exactly what you're thinking of for the role, and then you put a camera on them, and they freeze. And other people come to life with the camera on them. I haven't discovered any reliable predictor for that; I think you just have to try it and see what happens. And, you know, sometimes the people who freeze, if you find the right magic word to say to them, you can unlock them.

  

  Andrew Bujalski
  • Thinking
  • Camera
  • Meet

• When the country was new, homes, like dresses, were constructed more for wearing qualities than beauty.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Country
  • Beauty
  • Qualities

• Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake, And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake.

  

  Alexander Pope