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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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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.
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Poetry is like a bird, it ignores all frontiers.
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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.
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The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
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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.
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On my own, I have very bad posture; I'm clunky.
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The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.
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I'm not super-patriotic, but the U.S. is where I live, and it's the passport that I carry.
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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.
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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.
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Rooting for the offense is the safe way to go. You win either way.
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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.
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In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.
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From my point of view, there is a tremendous amount to be said for secular humanism.
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When I was about nine or 10, I was on a few random talent shows in shopping malls.
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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.
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My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.
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If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.
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Safety is an emergent property of systems, not a component property.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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But of all the water's secrets, he saw today only a single one-one that struck his soul. He saw that this water flowed and flowed, it was constantly flowing, and yet it was always there; it was always eternally the same and yet new at every moment! Oh, to be able to grasp this, to understand this!
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There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses.
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Our little systems have their day; They have their day and cease to be… And thou, O Lord, art more than they.
