Alexander Pope Quotes

On all the line a sudden vengeance waits, And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates.

Alexander Pope

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• I'm a huge fan of Taio Cruz. I'm really liking what he's doing at the moment. I'd love to do something with him.

  

  Flo Rida
  • Doing
  • Moment
  • Liking

• All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • True
  • Future
  • Brain

• Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Work
  • Guy
  • Know

• The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Mind

• The media is controlled.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Media
  • Controlled

• Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • You
  • Path
  • Own

• Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Great
  • Music
  • American

• This is magic we're talking about. It's supposed to go places science can't, defy logic, wink at technology, fill us all with the sensawunda that comes of gazing upon a fictional world and seeing something truly different from our own.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • World
  • Different
  • Science

• I met Will Smith twice. I didn't talk to him for too long but I was trying to let him know that my age group grew up watching him - he was the coolest guy on television and the coolest guy in movies.

  

  J. Cole
  • Up
  • Long
  • Trying

• Kids nowadays, I remember when I was in school, they were just rude, even to the teachers and stuff.

  

  Madeline Carroll
  • School
  • Kids
  • Remember

• Guys don't like girls that throw themselves at them. That's something that I've learned.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Like
  • Learned
  • Throw

• Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Better
  • Than
  • Perpetually

• No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Believe
  • Wish
  • Wishes

• I wasn't meant to be an attorney, but I was meant to go to law school.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • School
  • Law
  • Meant To Be

• 'Flotsam floats when all is sunk. Jetsam thrown isn't just junk. Coughs and colds and bright red sores Waiting for us, so bend yer oars!'

  

  Garth Nix
  • Waiting
  • Red

• What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I knew it wouldn't be like the one I got from Mom or Dad at bedtime. The same species, maybe, but a radically different beast, to be sure. Like a wolf and a whippet-only science would put them on the same tree.

  

  Wendelin Van Draanen
  • Different
  • Science
  • Dad

• To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Wish
  • Wisdom

• Do good work and share it with people.

  

  Austin Kleon
  • Good
  • Work
  • Share

• Our brothers and sisters in Muslim countries can't celebrate Christmas-or any aspect of their faith-openly for fear of persecution and death. And yet we, with all our freedoms, often choose to make Christmas a celebration of commercialism!

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
  • Death
  • Christmas
  • Celebrate

• I like Madonna a lot. I think she's really good and I think she's a good singer. I think she looks good and she's got a nice kind of... I don't think she's got a sinister or cynical vibe around her, and I don't think she's got any sort of bullshit around her.

  

  Chrissie Hynde Pretenders
  • Good
  • She
  • Nice

• When the good student chooses the honest path, free of perfectionism and faking, music study becomes something refreshingly new: a calm oasis of self-acceptance for those who are so used to driving themselves and trying to please others.

  

  William Westney
  • Trying
  • Driving
  • Honest

• I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if I feel something strongly, I would make a photograph, that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt.

  

  Ansel Adams
  • Photograph
  • Pictures
  • Equivalent

• On all the line a sudden vengeance waits, And frequent hearses shall besiege your gates.

  

  Alexander Pope