Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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• We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.

  

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• Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?

  

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• A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

  

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• When you can program your own life, you're just going to program what you already like. Because of that, people's taste becomes much more narrow-minded.

  

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• When Denzel [Washington] first called me on the phone after we'd just done a reading of the film ["Fences"]. He said, "Oh Viola it was so good, wasn't it?! I'm gonna tell Russell [Hornsby] to lose a little bit of weight and..." I was just sitting there thinking, why is he calling me? And I told him, "Denzel don't you tell me to lose weight!" He said, "I'm not telling you to lose weight! I can't believe you would say that."

  

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• Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

  

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• The only tip I have for an artist is perseverance... Never give up.

  

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• Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.

  

  Charles Dickens
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• My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

  

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• I want an 11 out of 10, because I'm soooo sexy.

  

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• I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.

  

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• What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other beasts. In the process, we discover our shared identity.

  

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• The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.

  

  Confucius
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• There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast. Some men, like bats or owls, have better eyes for the darkness than for the light. We, who have no such optical powers, are better pleased to take our last parting look at the visionary companions of many solitary hours, when the brief sunshine of the world is blazing full upon them.

  

  Charles Dickens
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• What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.

  

  Victor Hugo
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• Keep your face always toward the sunshine everything could be worse but isn't and so we are justified in being grateful - and shadows everything could be better but isn't and so it is easy to be bitter 'unless you decide to look on the bright side will fall behind you.

  

  Walt Whitman
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• When a writer becomes a reader of his or her own work, a lot can go wrong. It's like do-it-yourself dentistry.

  

  William Collins
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• I am half-sick of shadows,' said The Lady of Shalott.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Shadows