Bosie (Lord Alfred Bruce Douglas) Quotes

It is heresy to say that we shall ever again produce a poet of Shakespeare's stature, but we have faith that when the spirit of man comes really to need another, he will be there.

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• If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.

  

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• I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.

  

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• To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

  

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• In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

  

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• Every stumble is not a fall, and every fall does not mean failure.

  

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• I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.

  

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• But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.

  

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• I don’t get angry, I don’t want to use harsh words. They are our colleagues and we have to work with them. But they also have to learn to work with us.

  

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• I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long

  

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• One can insult an honest man or an honest woman, but to tell a thief that he is a thief is merely la constation d'un fait The establishing of a fact.

  

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• Experience teaches only the teachable…

  

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• The second someone tries to put me in a box, I will do everything to rebel against that.

  

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• The discovery of agriculture was the first big step toward a civilized life.

  

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• It's important to determine which surroundings work best for you, and then build that environment to suit your needs.

  

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• All those little acting rules you get, one of the interesting ones is, 'Play the opposite. Don't play 'victim.'

  

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• I'm fully conscious all the time that I'm an American Negro, because it's part of my life. But I also know that if I want to say, 'I see a bus full of people,' I don't have to say, 'I am a Negro seeing a bus full of people.'

  

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• Not to sound too Pollyanna-ish, but I think most people are decent, caring human beings. You don't necessarily see that reflected in fiction maybe, because possibly it's perceived as not having much dramatic potential.

  

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• If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.

  

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• BEFORE YOU JUMP OFF A BRIDGE OR HANG YOURSELF OR BE UNHAPPY PLEASE CONSIDER: LIVE FOR YOURSELF; THOSE WHO HATE YOU HAVE NO PURCHASE

  

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• I say embrace the total geek in yourself and just enjoy it. Life is too short to be cool.

  

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• If faith produce no works, I see That faith is not a living tree. Thus faith and works together grow, No separate life they never can know. They're soul and body, hand and heart, What God hath joined, let no man part.

  

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• I have a studio in the country - in the woods – but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors. You walk outside; the rocks are inert, even the clouds are inert. It makes me feel a little better. But I do have a faith that it is possible if you can move that inch.

  

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• It is heresy to say that we shall ever again produce a poet of Shakespeare's stature, but we have faith that when the spirit of man comes really to need another, he will be there.

  

  Bosie
  • Faith
  • Spirit
  • Poet