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

• It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity.

  

  J. B. Jackson
  • Giving
  • Identity
  • Social

• Bullies may land a punch. They might leave a mark. But they have never, not once, in the history of our United States, managed to match the strength and spirit of a people united in defense of their future.

  

  Joe Kennedy III
  • People
  • May
  • History

• We too often let the material things serve as indicators that we're doing well, even though something inside us tells us that were not doing our best. That we are avoiding that which is hard, but also necessary. That we are shrinking from rather than rising to the challenges of the age.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Age

• We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Thing
  • Forgive

• Fighting evil by moonlight, winning love by daylight, never running from a real fight, she is the one named Sailor Moon!

  

  Naoko Takeuchi
  • Running
  • Winning
  • Moonlight

• 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