Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

The time draws near the birth of Christ; The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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• Bells
• Birth Of Christ

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• The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Act
  • Possibilities

• There is no such thing as a perfect mother.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Mother
  • Perfect
  • Thing

• Religion is induced insanity.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Religion
  • Insanity
  • Induced

• As writers, we can't predict who might come along who might find our offerings valuable.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Find
  • Come
  • Predict

• I've known Bret Michaels forever.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Forever
  • Known

• For any athlete growing up, the Olympics is the one thing you watch with your family, and it's the one thing you dream about. Seeing your country's flag go up as you get a gold medal is the best thing you can achieve.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Up
  • Country
  • Family

• I talk too much.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Talk
  • Too Much
  • Too

• Essentially, there's no scientific evidence whatsoever that could ever be presented to me that would wipe out my fundamental spiritual beliefs.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Me
  • Spiritual
  • Evidence

• Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Time
  • Blonde
  • Every Time

• I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Guy
  • Risk
  • Commitment

• reasonable men, they went because we were there. There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads-they couldn’t be fair if they tried.

  

  Harper Lee
  • World
  • Men

• Mutos enim nasci et egere omni ratione satius fuisset quam providentiae munera in mutuam perniciem convertere.

  

  Quintilian

• Better to err with Pope, than shine with Pye.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Shine

• An individual may perceive a way of life, or a method of social organisation, by which more of the desires of mankind could be satisfied than under the existing method. If he perceives truly, and can persuade men to adopt his reform, he is justified. Without rebellion, mankind would stagnate, and injustice would be irremediable.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Life
  • Men
  • May

• A planet of playthingsWe dance on the strings of powers we cannot perceiveThe stars aren't aligned or the gods are malignedBlame is better to give than receive - Freewill (1980)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Dance

• That's the terrible thing: the more one works on a picture, the more impossible it becomes to finish it.

  

  Alberto Giacometti
  • Picture

• We're going to be very strong with employers in all of our aspects, because I think there's been too much of this idea let's try and get along here, and we've eroded some of our standards.

  

  James P. Hoffa
  • Strong

• I always try to travel light.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Light
  • Travel

• In some cases, inventions prohibit innovation because we're so caught up in playing with the technology, we forget about the fact that it was supposed to be important.

  

  Dean Kamen
  • Up
  • Important
  • Technology

• Since the appearance of Impressionism, the official salons, which used to be brown, have become blue, green, and red.. .But peppermint or chocolate, they are still confections.

  

  Claude Monet
  • Red
  • Green
  • Blue

• Gotham Games called me, and I could not be more thrilled. I've been waiting to be in a video game forever, so when they called there was no hesitation.

  

  Cindy Margolis
  • Game
  • Forever
  • Waiting

• I don't play long parts. They must be short parts, but they've got to be parts that mean something, that matter, where people will notice when I'm on the screen, and people will remember the character after they've seen the film.

  

  Christopher Lee
  • People
  • Long
  • Character

• They will explain themselves - as all poems should do without any comment.

  

  John Keats

• The time draws near the birth of Christ; The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Moon
  • Bells
  • Birth Of Christ