Edwin Markham Quotes

I fear the vermin that shall undermine Senate and citadel and school and shrine.

Edwin Markham

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• Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • House
  • Man
  • Born

• I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Time
  • Kind
  • Never

• I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Want
  • Shows
  • Mysterious

• Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Matter
  • Say
  • Wrong

• Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • You
  • Ups And Downs
  • Ups

• Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

  

  Mae West
  • Men
  • Home
  • Waiting

• I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Up
  • Character
  • Job

• My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Actions
  • Democratic
  • Tastes

• My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Minister

• Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Mediocrity
  • Heroism

• Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Gold

• Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • May
  • Remember
  • Strong

• You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • You
  • Know
  • Learn

• Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Space
  • Attitude
  • Vanity

• No person is just one particular emotion.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Person
  • Emotion
  • Just

• I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Away
  • Pass

• We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.

  

  Barack Obama
  • God
  • Friends
  • Gay

• I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
  • Think
  • Relationship

• Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Great
  • Star

• When you're playing a real person, there's a balance between playing the person in the script and playing the person as he was in life. You have to be respectful and true to who that person was, but at the same time tell the story in the film.

  

  David Tennant
  • Life
  • Time
  • Real

• The things I felt Baltimore would give me is a team that gives everything for each other and a team that wants to win and has a goal to win a Super Bowl every year.

  

  Eric Weddle
  • Team

• All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Music
  • Mean
  • Rock

• Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify. Besides, the fear of an ignominious death, I believe, never deterred anyone from the commission of a crime, because in committing it the mind is roused to activity about present circumstances.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Believe
  • Mind
  • Heart

• I fear the vermin that shall undermine Senate and citadel and school and shrine.

  

  Edwin Markham
  • School
  • Fear