Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau

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• It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Me
  • View

• I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.

  

  Randy Bachman The Guess Who
  • Music
  • Age
  • Gift

• A lasting architecture has to have roots.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Architecture
  • Roots
  • Lasting

• When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Myself
  • Exercise
  • Bike

• I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Doing
  • Figure
  • Documentary

• My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.

  

  Cam
  • Up
  • You
  • Water

• Anyone who is awake and aware knows that these quote-unquote bathroom bills or any legislation discriminating against LGBTQ citizens is horrible.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Horrible
  • Awake
  • Bathroom

• Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • Work
  • Beautiful
  • Something

• I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.

  

  Barbara Cook
  • Time
  • Family
  • First

• I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • People
  • Strong
  • Funny

• I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Time
  • Guy
  • Black

• I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Hard

• You know, I have the best parents in the world and I got really, really lucky because they think that everything I do is Oscar-worthy.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • World
  • Parents
  • Best

• Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

  

  Ralph Cudworth
  • Mind
  • Running
  • Like

• I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Life
  • Up
  • Long

• To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • History
  • Hope
  • Future

• I feel, even if someone is blessed with good hair, one needs to follow the basic hair care regime, and that means investing in the correct shampoo, conditioner, and mask.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Good
  • Hair
  • Blessed

• I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Farm

• A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry is a standard Oscar Williams production... ...the book has the merit of containing a considerably larger selection of Oscar Williams’s poems than I have seen in any other anthology. There are nine of his poems - and five of Hardy’s. It takes a lot of courage to like your own poetry almost twice as well as Hardy’s.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Book
  • Poetry
  • Courage

• SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive; it's fun. After that, for me, it's an opportunity to explore that kind of imaginative artifact from inside, and use a little camped-up contemporary science as a way of generating new metaphors around my typical obsessions.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Science

• Oh, I've become immune to the Booker. I think we need something a little more like the Pulitzer prize, where there isn't this great race.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Great
  • Think
  • Race

• I love children and I love family and I love that interaction. Because I had a really close relationship with my mother, I understand that deep powerful love, and it's so beautiful. To be a mother to a child is the most brilliant gift; it's gorgeous.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Children
  • Family
  • Love

• If one has really technically penetrated a subject, things that previously seemed in complete contrast, might be purely mathematical transformations of each other.

  

  John von Neumann

• Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Poetry