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.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
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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?

  

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

  

  Oscar Wilde
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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.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • People
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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."

  

  Viola Davis
  • Believe
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• Consider nothing impossible, then treat possiblities as probabilities.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Treat
  • Consider
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• The only tip I have for an artist is perseverance... Never give up.

  

  Wayne White
  • Artist
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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
  • Church
  • Vaults
  • Silent Hours

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

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Father
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  • Tears

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

  

  Tim Rice-Oxley Keane
  • Want
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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.

  

  Sarah Palin
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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.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Identity
  • Lonely
  • Beast

• The white horse of heroin will ride you to hell.

  

  James Brown
  • Horse
  • Hell
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• Believe what is productive is not sedentary but nomadic.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Believe
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  • Nomadic

• There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • Sometimes
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• Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Artists
  • Shadows
  • Creations

• In our culture, we get very much into shorthanding people. And I got shorthanded as That Guy: Jennifer Lopez, movies bombed, therefore he must be a sort of thoughtless dilettante, solipsistic consumer blahblahblah. It's hard to shake those sort of narratives.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Guy
  • Culture

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

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Shadows