Alfred Noyes Quotes
A shadow leaned over me, whispering, in the darkness,Thoughts without sound; Sorrowful thoughts that filled me with helpless wonder And held me bound.
Quotes to Explore
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.
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I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.
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I've always reverted to a sense of childhood, just in everyday life.
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To me hair dressing means shape. It's very important that the foundations should be right.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.
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How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.
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If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
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If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.
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I started working on ribosomes when I was a post doc, in 1978, when it would have been impossible, really, to solve it. But, it was just a fundamental problem in biology.
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I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go back to the last place that felt like jazz to me.
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The ivyed oaks dark shadow fallsOft picking up with wondering gazeSome little thing of other daysSaved from the wreck of time.
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The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.
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Antiques exist as evidence of the cultural tracks we made in the past.
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Up until college age I was using the typical little-boy dummy that sits on the knee and makes woodpecker jokes. My first original character didn't happen until later, and that was Jose the Jalapeno on a Stick.
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A million men can tell a woman she is beautiful, but the only time she will listen is when it's said by the man she loves.
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A shadow leaned over me, whispering, in the darkness,Thoughts without sound; Sorrowful thoughts that filled me with helpless wonder And held me bound.
