Alfred Austin Quotes
Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the poor trudge refreshment scant, Age after age, pants on to find A melting mirage of the mind.
Quotes to Explore
-
Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
-
When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
-
Speech happens to not be his language.
-
The first step... shall be to lose the way.
-
It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
-
I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
-
Anything scarce will ultimately be tokenized because the benefits of digitization and increased liquidity are so great.
-
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
-
You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
-
There's no business like show business.
-
I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
-
My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
-
I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
-
I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
-
Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
-
You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
-
I take a certain pride in having maintained a reputation for fast copy throughout my newspaper career. Fast-breaking stories left my typewriter in a hurry. Not great literature, perhaps, but fast, and usually accurate.
-
I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
-
You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
-
I still use a lot of good values from growing up in the Church, and there was a sense of community. But you were also being heavily judged by people that wanted to look down on you for not being as great as they are.
-
Businesses that make consumer privacy a point of competitive differentiation will enjoy greater customer loyalty.
-
My eventual goal is to win a championship. And before I retire, I just want to win a championship. That's it.
-
When I meet a woman who attracts me, I prefer women,' she said. 'And when I meet a man who attracts me, I prefer men.' 'You mean you haven't made up your mind yet.' 'I mean exactly what I said. I told you you wouldn't like it. Most people who ask want me definitely on one side or the other.
-
Thought, stumbling, plods Past fallen temples, vanished gods, Altars unincensed, fanes undecked, Eternal systems flown or wrecked; Through trackless centuries that grant To the poor trudge refreshment scant, Age after age, pants on to find A melting mirage of the mind.
