Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.Alfred Lord Tennyson
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I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
Langhorne Slim -
It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
Karrie Webb -
Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko -
Who doesn't love 'Frogger?' It draws its power from our shared memories of powerlessness. Wherever we are now, at one time or another we have all felt the poor frog's anxiety in the face of the world's intransigence, its blind and callous disregard for our happiness or well-being.
D. B. Weiss -
The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
Randall Kennedy -
You could grow up in Germany in the postwar years without ever meeting a Jewish person. There were small communities in Frankfurt or Berlin, but in a provincial town in south Germany, Jewish people didn't exist.
W. G. Sebald
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
Victor Hugo -
I'm not super-patriotic, but the U.S. is where I live, and it's the passport that I carry.
Waris Ahluwalia -
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
W. H. Auden -
Somehow, I realized I could write books about black characters who reflected my own experiences or otherworldly experiences - not just stories of history, poverty and oppression.
Tananarive Due -
Rooting for the offense is the safe way to go. You win either way.
Kate Mara -
I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.
Kate Atkinson
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In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.
Malachy McCourt -
From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
Vidal Sassoon -
When I was about nine or 10, I was on a few random talent shows in shopping malls.
Zara Larsson -
I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love story between a father and his son, and that son and his daughter.
Ted Demme -
When Peyton went into the game and remained the starter, it was OK with me because our team was winning games. We won a championship.
Brock Osweiler -
I listen to oldies but goodies stations, '60s and '70s music.
Brian Wilson
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The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Embrace simplicity. Put others first. Desire little.
Lao Tzu -
With 'Attachments,' my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.
Rainbow Rowell -
Lord, for the erring thoughtNot into evil wrought:Lord, for the wicked willBetrayed and baffled still:For the heart from itself kept,Our thanksgiving accept.
William Dean Howells -
I haven't got many tattoos, but the two that are most important to me are music tattoos. I have a black heart with a lightning bolt down the middle. And the black heart was for Manson and the lightning bolt down the middle was for David Bowie. I have black diamond with circles that keep swirling and swirling, and it's surrounded by sort of crazy diamonds because Pink Floyd's "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" really inspired me, and everybody's called me Crazy Diamond since I was a teenager, so it was always important to me.
Evan Rachel Wood -
Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
Alfred Lord Tennyson