Algernon Charles Swinburne Quotes

When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

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• Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.

  

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• I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'

  

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• I just was in the second round. That's painful, because always is tough to lose, but well, that's sport. You win, you lose.

  

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• The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

  

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• It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing.

  

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• To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.

  

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• You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.

  

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• See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.

  

  Rachael Harris
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• I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'

  

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• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

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• I don't like Moscow. It's not my city.

  

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  • City
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• I read my first P.G. Wodehouse when I was 12.

  

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• I grew up in L.A. I actually grew up in the Valley, which was a pretty amazing place to grow up because everybody has nice, big backyards, and I was kind of a little nature being.

  

  Banks
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• Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.

  

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• It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.

  

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• I do think it's possible to change for the better.

  

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• I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.

  

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• I'm a living sunset, lightning in my bones.

  

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• I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.

  

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• Expenditure can't really guarantee a great experience. I don't even like shopping; I've never bought stuff for myself, and everything I wear are gifts from my brothers, friends and people.

  

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• I became so disciplined when I was on tag. I would be at home by eight o'clock, and because I had boxing, I lived the disciplined life. I started reading because I learnt that so many champions educated themselves. Joe Louis, Mike Tyson, Bernard Hopkins. Before, it was 'act now, think later' - but the discipline and reading changed me.

  

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• I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.

  

  Halle Berry
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• When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain.

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Mother
  • Spring
  • Rain