Alfred Austin Quotes

Perhaps a maiden's bashfulness is more A matron's lesson than our lips aver.

Alfred Austin

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The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.

Victor LaValle
- People
- Losing
- Despair
I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.

S. Truett Cathy
- Up
- You
- Poverty
Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
- History
- Spanish
- France
Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

Tahar Ben Jelloun
My temperament is not the adventuresome sort that enjoys starting new projects every six months. I love ensemble, nine-to-five stability. There's a family dynamic in making a television show that you don't get on a movie, where you're a hired gun for a few months.

Ted Danson
- Family
- Movie
- Projects
The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust our own government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on them.

J. William Fulbright
- Government
- Trust
- Lesson