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
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.
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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Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.
Stewart Alsop -
We just couldn't seem to get the love from the Nashville awards shows... So Grammys really gave us validation, and so that's why they're such a big deal for us.
Zac Brown Band -
The library was home away from home to my mom, and my family. We had spent every Sunday afternoon there since I was a little boy, wandering around the stacks, pulling out every book with a picture of a pirate ship, a knight, a soldier, or an astronaut. My mom used to say, "This is my church, Ethan. This is how we keep the Sabbath holy in our family.
Kami Garcia -
In Peru, if you gave somebody a little chance to do something, they took it to the furthest extent. They took nothing for granted. And here in L.A., you kind of get caught up in your own little dilemmas and your own little life.
Q'orianka Kilcher -
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