Alexander Pope Quotes

And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.

Alexander Pope

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• The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Important
  • She
  • Book

• A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Nature
  • Way
  • Egg

• I've been making music for a long time, since I was very young, but at the same time, I'm still exploring what works for me. I feel like I'm just starting out.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Time
  • Music
  • Young

• You won't hear me talk about my politics, you won't hear me talk about my vegetarianism, you won't hear me comment on the Iraq war. You'll only hear me talk about being gay and being an actor. I am just public on those two issues.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Gay
  • Actor
  • Issues

• Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Country
  • American

• Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Makes
  • Cross
  • Carelessness

• I needed to take a break from performing, and from the Peas, to be happy. I craved female time, and time with my husband to feed my soul. My life now is about being balanced. I'm passionate about work and working out, seeing friends and family, and letting my hair down once in a while.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Work
  • Family
  • Soul

• Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Good
  • Day
  • Positive

• In a movie like this, the relationship between the two guys is crucial. It sinks or swims on how these two guys are together. I think we did a good job.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Good
  • Job
  • Together

• 'A Pirate Looks at 40,' we had to do that song. I've been covering that forever.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Song
  • Forever
  • Looks

• I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books in the bag and bring them home. Not that I was that concerned about them teasing me - because I would hit them in a heartbeat. But I felt a little ashamed, having books.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Me
  • Library

• I just love Jamie Foxx!

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Love
  • Just
  • Jamie

• It doesn't much concern me if Tiger plays in the tournament or no.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • Concern
  • Plays
  • Tournament

• In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

  

  Larry Niven
  • May
  • Society
  • Hindsight

• Take of London fog 30 parts; malaria 10 parts, gas leaks 20 parts, dewdrops gathered in a brickyard at sunrise 25 parts; odor of honeysuckle 15 parts. Mix. The mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle.

  

  O. Henry
  • Sunrise

• See I'm a poet to some, a regular modern day Shakespeare.

  

  Eminem
  • Day
  • Poet
  • Modern

• on the question 'Why selecting certain subjects over others': I do not exactly know, unless it is that I believe them his chosen subjects to be the best mediums for a synthesis of my inner experience.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Experience

• I grew up in an era where you had to find your own way as a woman. When I was a kid, there was this whole physical and emotional neatness and purity that a woman was supposed to have, and I didn't fit into that.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • Up
  • Emotional

• What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.

  

  Lisa See
  • Past
  • Sense
  • Loss

• I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Myself
  • Doing
  • Mystery

• Devaluations are never easy.

  

  Jeffrey Sachs

• The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record that's not too expensive, so that you're not going crazy spending tons of money making a product that might not ever return that money.

  

  John Oates Daryl Hall & John Oates
  • Money
  • Business
  • Crazy

• I think that it's interesting how shows like 'Walking Dead' or even 'Game of Thrones,' with all its fantasy elements, have become so popular. Sometimes, though, I get a little bit annoyed because the whole nerd thing taking over and is now cool, and it wasn't cool when I was younger.

  

  AJ Lee
  • Game
  • Interesting
  • Cool

• And bear about the mockery of woe To midnight dances and the public show.

  

  Alexander Pope