Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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• The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

  

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• My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.

  

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• I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.

  

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• There is always something funny going on between scenes with Adam Sandler. He's always cracking jokes and yelling at people for no reason. It's pretty funny. He'll joke around during scenes, too. When he guest-starred on 'Jessie,' there was nothing in the script that he said first take.

  

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• I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.

  

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• A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.

  

  Walter Kirn
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• My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.

  

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• Marriages that last are with people who do not live in Los Angeles.

  

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• Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.

  

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• Signs are taken for wonders. 'We would see a sign!'The word within a word, unable to speak a word,Swaddled with darkness.

  

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• I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

  

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• No gentleman ever has any money.

  

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• It would be best not to impose a model too soon, because the model that exists in the west for these states is pathological, and the model that exists in the primitive cultures is mystical and religious.

  

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• We must fight our way to victory on a sea of blood and a horizon of fire.

  

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• For me, especially with the villain, it's not very interesting to write a guy who is just 100% bad.

  

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• The world has done that already - possessed the Congo and pillaged her and dominated her and robbed her of agency and occupation. Love is something else, something rising and contagious and surprising. It isn't aware of itself. It isn't keeping track. It isn't something you sign for. It's endless and generous and enveloping. It's in the drums, in the voices, in the bodies of the wounded made suddenly whole, by the music, by each other, dancing.

  

  Eve Ensler
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• All the rays which convey the images of objects through the air are straight lines. Hence, if the images of very large bodies have to pass through very small holes, and beyond these holes recover their large size, the lines must necessarily intersect.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
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• Not a lot of people know I wrote the lyrics for the Arsenal club song, 'Good Old Arsenal'. We had a competition on ITV for it, and none of the entries were any good, so I approached their manager, Bertie Mee, and asked him if he would let me have a stab. He did, and within a few weeks they were singing it at Wembley on the way to the 1971 double.

  

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• Creative people inspire me. Athletes also inspire me to come alive, especially my daughter, a competitive gymnast who works very hard, as much as six hours a day on her gymnastics skills.

  

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• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers, and I linger on the shore, And the individual withers, and the world is more and more.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Linger