E. M. Forster Quotes

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

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• We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • God
  • High
  • Dark

• California has always led the way on environmental protection and always reaped the benefits, pioneering everything from catalytic convertors on cars to stationary source reduction.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • California
  • Environmental

• The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Opportunity
  • Space
  • Eyes

• I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

  

  Rajiv Ouseph
  • Years
  • Go
  • University

• When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Kind
  • Ever
  • Belt

• You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Live
  • Experience

• It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Attention
  • Nice
  • Win

• The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • President
  • Option
  • Big

• I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Country
  • Wonderful

• I don't like crazy names. I don't like them. I don't think it makes any sense. You have to think about the child and, as they get older, what they have to deal with. A lot of people do things as a fad, and they want to get some attention, but it's like, this is your child.

  

  Laila Ali
  • People
  • Attention
  • Crazy

• At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Trying
  • Voice
  • Sound

• Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Help
  • Problems
  • Blame

• Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Know
  • Single

• My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Business
  • Like
  • Deal

• My concern with religion is that it allows us by the millions to believe what only lunatics or idiots could believe on their own. That's not to say that all religious people are lunatics or idiots. It's anything but that.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Believe
  • Religious

• A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.

  

  Iain Glen
  • Experience
  • London
  • Bicycle

• As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Always
  • Writer
  • Blind

• Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Man
  • Progress
  • Lifting

• We all have a way to contribute, to your community, to your family, whatever it is you can do.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Family
  • You
  • Community

• He could chafe against the rich and privileged but he acknowledged that the army had taken him from the gutter and put an officer's sash round his waiste and Sharpe could think of no other job that would offer a low-born bastard on the run from the law the chance of rank and responsibility.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • Job
  • Law
  • Responsibility

• I did 'Red Riding,' which is TV in the U.K. It became a feature project in North America, but we're in a great era of TV. We all know that, and we hear it all the time, but for filmmakers, it's just a godsend to have your television writing and work to do on television, and the means to do it properly.

  

  James Marsh
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

  

  William Feather
  • Men
  • Philosophy
  • Advertising

• A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Men
  • Save
  • Seduce

• I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Great
  • Men
  • Man