Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
Many a night I saw the Pleiads, Rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies, Tangled in a silver braid.Alfred Lord Tennyson
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When it comes to production and the overall sound, I don't really have a lot of intentions with it. I start off with melody and a lyrical idea, and then build off of that story.
Verite -
Some people can be choosy because they're ultratalented or lucky or whatever, but yeah, there are certain things that might not be the greatest thing on my resume. But I don't sit back and go, 'Gosh, I wish I didn't do that.' It's all part of the growth of a career, whether you're an entertainer or a librarian.
Zach Galifianakis -
Early on, after gay liberation, there was an almost Stalinist pressure from gay critics and even gay readers to write about positive role models. We were never supposed to write negative things about gays, or else we were seen as collaborating with the enemy.
Edmund White -
We have lost a lot of ground to the extremists in the Middle East.
Najib Razak -
Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
Venus Williams -
When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
Warren Farrell
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I grew up on the stage, and there's no two ways about it: you only get one chance to do your bit.
Jack Lowden -
Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.
Harold S. Geneen -
It was the roughest day of my career, my final day of shooting on 'Breaking Bad,' knowing that I will never be able to kind of zip on that skin again.
Aaron Paul -
Like 'real', 'free' is only used to rule out the suggestion of some or all of its recognized antitheses. As 'truth' is not a name of a characteristic of assertions, so 'freedom' is not a name for a characteristic of actions, but the name of a dimension in which actions are assessed.
J. L. Austin -
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
C. S. Lewis -
No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
H. P. Lovecraft
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How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Logan Pearsall Smith -
Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.
Marcus Aurelius -
Dennis surfed. I couldn't surf. I never learned how.
Brian Wilson -
It was as the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position.
Leon Trotsky -
I love oddballs and nerdiness, and it's a fun world to write in.
Alec Berg -
'A Christmas Carol' has been described as the most perfect of Dickens's works and as a quintessential heart-warming story, and it is certainly the most popular.
Claire Tomalin
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If we succeed, it makes no sense to keep it only for ourselves.
Edward Boyden -
The quarterback is the leader of the team and the quarterback is the one that has the ball in his hands every single play.
Andy Dalton -
Those magazine dieting stories always have the testimonial of a woman who wore a dress that could slipcover New Jersey in one photo and thirty days later looked like a well-dressed thermometer.
Erma Bombeck -
I came up professionally as a lawyer, and when you're a lawyer, writing a 50-page brief in one night is just another day at the office. You learn to make choices really quickly, and you learn how to get thoughts down very quickly.
Marc Guggenheim -
I enjoy French poetry as well as French prose, and I believe that this land must have some cultural connection with the European continent, and that she is best connected through her spiritual complement across the Straits of Dover.
E. M. Forster -
Many a night I saw the Pleiads, Rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies, Tangled in a silver braid.
Alfred Lord Tennyson