Alice Oswald Quotes
I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence falling to pieces.
Alice Oswald
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The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk, you're halfway there.
Ian Holm
If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.
Fabrizio Moreira
My stepfather was quite into opera, but he'd play it when he was in a bad mood, so you'd hear this boom through the floor, Wagner, and you'd feel nervous.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
Candace Camp
I'm interested in visual vocabulary, like Warhol was interested in that vocabulary of advertisements and television and pop culture.
Damian Loeb
I don't think it is just in the world of politics. The lack of civility in society as a whole, some of it, I believe, is very much fueled by social media and frankly, it's fueled by the fact that journalism is not journalism any more.
Karen Handel
Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
Baldwin Spencer
When you reach 50, what you care about is being honest, being accurate, and being an example.
Natalie Cole
Illegal downloading, digital cheating, and cutting and pasting other people's stuff may be easy, but that doesn't make those activities right.
G. Hannelius
Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
Yakov Smirnoff
I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.
Garry Kasparov
In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.
Saint Teresa of Avila
I get really self-conscious about people staring at me. It sounds so weird. As a performer, as an artist, these should be the things that I'm used to. But that's not the case. When people stare at me, I freak out.
Sam Smith
As you get older, you grow and mature, and that should never stop. As soon as you stop growing, you're done living. I'll always be growing, forever learning, forever taking in advice from people I deeply respect.
Odell Beckham, Jr.
But when I go to Chicago, I know I'm home.
Hank Sauer
There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.
Joanne Rowling
Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
Ovid
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln
I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them.
Francesco Carrozzini
Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'.
Barry S. Strauss
Genetically, I'm pure Greek. Psychologically, environmentally, culturally, by choice, I'm a member of the black community.
Johnny Otis
One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.
Waylon Jennings
God has created you and be proud of it. Don't hide from your age. Don't lie about it. Don't be ashamed of it and don't let nobody make you feel ashamed because you're aging in the world. It's a privilege. God has blessed you. Michael Jackson, Prince, Whitney, they'll never know what it's like to be 60. They'll never know that.
Vanessa Bell Calloway
I much preferred Latin to Greek. I loved the language being such a pattern that you could not shift a word without the whole sentence falling to pieces.
Alice Oswald
