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 -
Calculated risks of abuse are taken in order to preserve higher values.
Warren E. Burger -
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
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
Warren Farrell -
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
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No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
H. P. Lovecraft -
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
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'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 -
When I was elected to Congress, this was the No. 1 issue businesses brought up. They said that if we want this country to succeed, we need immigration reform.
Elizabeth Esty -
If I were Sarah Palin, would I want to sit in an interview with someone who was secretly out to get me? Probably not.
Megyn Kelly -
There are only two kinds of men who become dentists. The ones who love it and ones who get miserable. Think round and you'll see I'm right.
Margery Allingham -
I like to work from home. I do most of my writing in bed, late at night after everyone has gone to sleep. I need to be alone with my thoughts, and late at night is about the only time that can actually happen.
Donald Driver -
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