Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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• What about that Dave Brubeck live album, with a version of 'Like Someone in Love' on it, and long sax solos by Paul Desmond? That's what got me hooked on jazz.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Live
  • Like
  • Jazz

• Ours has been a special relationship for a long time and I'm really happy about coming back and playing.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Time
  • Long
  • Happy

• I am thankful that geniuses and artists and good people, no matter how hard it is, will eventually be recognized. I am doubly thankful that also goes for idiots.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • People
  • Good
  • Thankful

• We could be playing anybody the first game. We'd still have a sour taste in our mouths.

  

  Chris Wallace
  • Game
  • Taste
  • Sour

• In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.

  

  William Penn
  • Wife
  • Wisdom
  • Marriage

• The thing about you Christians, is that you are so unlike your Christ.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Christ
  • Christians
  • Unlike

• So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Think
  • Police
  • Discovers

• I know exactly what I want to write. I do not write until I do. Usually I write it all down only once. And that goes relatively quickly, since it really depends only on how fast I type.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Write
  • Type
  • I Know

• Better halfe a loafe than no bread.

  

  William Camden
  • Eating
  • Bread

• Obviously classical music tends to be stuff that is usually at least a hundred years old.

  

  Steve Hackett Genesis
  • Tends
  • Classical Music

• Truth is most beautiful undraped.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Beautiful
  • Truth Is
  • Undraped

• The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.

  

  Phil Collen Def Leppard
  • Song
  • Write
  • Rewarding

• I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity.

  

  David Bowie
  • Freedom
  • Realms
  • Eccentricity

• I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying - it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Mind
  • Funny
  • Dying

• If any player in the world tells you he doesn't care about what the opponents do, he is lying.

  

  Ander Herrera
  • Player
  • Care
  • Opponents

• A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise legislature would do the same. It is folly to make laws on subjects beyond human prerogative, knowing that in the very nature of things they must be set aside. To make laws that man cannot and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. It is very important in a republic, that the people should respect the laws, for if we throw them to the winds, what becomes of civil government?

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Children
  • Father
  • Government

• I've established a company - The Edward George Wealth Management Group - which facilitates in helping players maintain their finances, and more importantly, maintain their lives during the duration of their careers and beyond.

  

  Eddie George
  • Players
  • Careers
  • Established

• Man governs himself more by impulse than reason.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Reason
  • Impulse
  • Governs

• That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Winds
  • Tower
  • Blew