Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes

Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower-but if I could understand What you are, root and all, all in all, I should know what God and man is.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

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• Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Dad

• Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • World
  • Blue
  • Born

• We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Want
  • Human
  • Human being

• We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Know
  • Company
  • Stars

• I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Movie
  • Industry
  • Ups And Downs

• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Important
  • Chance

• Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Spiritual
  • Psychology
  • Intelligence

• I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • World
  • Music
  • Education

• TV ushered in the age of postliteracy. And we have gone so far beyond that. I mean, what with the Internet and Google and Wikipedia. We have entered the age of post-intelligence.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Age
  • Google
  • Beyond

• There isn't a person on Earth who couldn't use a connection with nature.

  

  Nalini Nadkarni
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Connection

• Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Nobody

• They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Good
  • Book
  • Page

• I had no education in filmmaking. I started with a 8mm camera. I made 34 films, and little by little I gained more experience in filming.

  

  Bahman Ghobadi
  • Experience
  • Education

• The victory of vivisection marks a great advance in the triumph of ruthless, non-moral utilitarianism over the old world of ethical law; a triumph in which we, as well as animals, are already the victims, and of which Dachau and Hiroshima mark the more recent achievements.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Great
  • Law

• When I was a practicing alcoholic, I was unbelievable. One side effect was immense suspicion: I'd come off tour like Inspector Clouseau on acid. 'Where's this cornflake come from? It wasn't here before.'

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath

• To me, our destinies seem flower and fruit Born of an ever-generating root...

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Flower

• There buds the promise of celestial worth.

  

  Edward Young
  • Promise

• Oh, those scoundrelly Charity Commissioners! … By the side of these anthropoid apes, the genuine bookworm, the paper-eating insect, ravenous as he once was, has done comparatively little mischief.

  

  Augustine Birrell
  • Done
  • Charity

• Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Hope
  • Courage

• The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Achievement
  • Overcoming
  • Jealousy

• Research we've done seems to indicate that people who are on the Net like the idea that they don't have to leave what they are reading to go buy something.

  

  Jay Chiat
  • People
  • Done
  • Reading

• In the scriptures, 'peace' means either freedom from strife, contention, conflict, or war, or an inner calm and comfort born of the Spirit that is a gift of God to all of his children, an assurance and serenity within a person's heart.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • God
  • Children
  • Heart

• Flower in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower-but if I could understand What you are, root and all, all in all, I should know what God and man is.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • God
  • Hand
  • Crannies