Alfred Noyes Quotes
The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees,The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,The road was a ribbon of moonlight looping the purple moor,And the highwayman came riding - Riding - riding - The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn door.
Alfred Noyes
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
Maj Sjowall
A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
G. H. Hardy
I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
Xavier Niel
It is of course very difficult to see relations between America and Iran becoming increasingly tense and knowing that it is not the people of the countries but a subset of leaders and radicals that are causing such strife. I am hoping that the spirit of the people will triumph.
Pardis Sabeti
A new untruth is better than an old truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
Adam Carolla
A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
Fidel Castro
The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
Jackie Robinson
I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
Ozzy Osbourne
Black Sabbath
Over-eating is the addiction choice of carers, and that's why it's come to be regarded as the lowest-ranking of all the addictions.
Caitlin Moran
I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
Tana French
The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.
Karen DeCrow
If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
D. A. Pennebaker
If I ever go onstage at the Oscars, you can guarantee I'll be wearing my motorcycle boots.
Dean Winters
And it's the President of the United States who said he wasn't going to spike the football and all this, we shouldn't gloat about it, running campaign ads, gloating about it and saying the other guy isn't good enough to do the tough things that I did, which I think is, one reprehensible.
Jonah Goldberg
All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.
E. M. Forster
The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees,The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas,The road was a ribbon of moonlight looping the purple moor,And the highwayman came riding - Riding - riding - The highwayman came riding, up to the old inn door.
Alfred Noyes
