Louis MacNeice Quotes

Then twangling their bibles with wrath in their nostrilsFrom Bonehill Fields came Bunyan and Blake:'Laredo the golden is fallen, is fallen;Your flame shall not quench nor your thirst shall not slake.'

Louis MacNeice

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• I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.

  

  Oliver North
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Bad

• I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Family
  • Always
  • Become

• Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Writing
  • True
  • Fiction

• Fifty-million-dollar movies gobble up the medium movies. A lot of people aren't working in Hollywood because of this.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • People
  • Up
  • Movies

• I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • People
  • Movie
  • Want

• When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • World
  • Find
  • New

• It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Change
  • Peace
  • Agreement

• 'Paranormal Activity' was a unique project in that I made it basically on my own, with a little help, and I had no exposure to the filmmaking world when I made it.

  

  Oren Peli
  • World
  • Help
  • Unique

• I had a ball doing Harry Potter.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Doing
  • Ball
  • Harry Potter

• The idea that our mental life is affected by hidden causes is a mainstay of psychology.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Life
  • Psychology
  • Hidden

• Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.

  

  Edmond About
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Battle

• The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman's art points to the beauty of the craftsman's attributes manifested in that art.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Art
  • Beauty
  • Name

• Pakistan's political instability is its greatest vulnerability, and a decline in U.S. power would reduce America's ability to aid Pakistan's consolidation and development.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Power
  • America
  • Political

• I know I've dreamed you, a sin and a lie I have my freedom but I don't have much time Faith has been broken, tears must be cried Let's do some living, after we die Wild horses couldn't drag me away Wild, wild horses, we'll ride them some day…

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Faith

• Such impetuous schemes and boldness are at first sight alluring, but are difficult to handle, and in the result disastrous.

  

  Livy

• In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form.

  

  Alberto Manguel
  • Technology

• My parents did not have any interest in music.

  

  Maurice Jarre
  • Music
  • Parents

• I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Good
  • Great

• What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age wanted heroes. It got us instead: carefully constructed, but immobile. Subtle but, unfit to take up the burden of the times. It happens. A whole generation of washouts. History says stand up, and we totter and collapse, weeping, moved, but not sufficient.

  

  Tony Kushner
  • People
  • Up
  • History

• Business colleagues who have not seen each other for a long time but who have a good relationship can always shake hands warmly and grab each other's right upper arm or shoulder with their free left hand. Men and women executives should not kiss each other in public.

  

  Letitia Baldrige
  • Time
  • Good
  • Men

• Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.

  

  Andrzej Wajda
  • Theatre

• I love 'Breaking Bad.' I'd watch Bryan Cranston read the phone book, for days.

  

  Joel Kinnaman
  • Book
  • Bad

• Then twangling their bibles with wrath in their nostrilsFrom Bonehill Fields came Bunyan and Blake:'Laredo the golden is fallen, is fallen;Your flame shall not quench nor your thirst shall not slake.'

  

  Louis MacNeice