Marcus Mumford Quotes

When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what T.S. Eliot said: 'Good poetry is felt before it is heard.' I'm a believer in that. It's those moments when you sit yourself down, and talk to yourself in the mirror.

Marcus Mumford Mumford & Sons

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• Desperate
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• I usually decide what to wear in the morning, but sometimes, I'll have a favorite coat or sweater or shoes, and I'll wear them everyday for a week!

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Morning
  • Everyday
  • Shoes

• The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Man
  • Best
  • Doubt

• When you're building a show from the ground up, there are no answers or wrong move, because there's no bible.

  

  Rachel Keller
  • Up
  • You
  • Bible

• I've been a little bit Las Vegas and casino-obsessed. So, I love some trashy glamour... and I think nothing's trashier or more glamorous than a bit of a sheer number!

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Think
  • Glamour
  • Trashy

• A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Day

• It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.

  

  Ed Balls
  • People
  • Country
  • War

• I always give importance to scripts first, and remuneration is something that comes later.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Always
  • First
  • Something

• Clearly, border security has been the top domestic issue of the year, and rightly so. Securing our borders is an essential aspect of our national security.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Security
  • Year
  • Top

• My social circle, my best friends, are all people that I met at UCB.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • People
  • Friends
  • Best

• It's easier to pick off a fast runner than to pick off a lazy runner.

  

  Vin Scully
  • Lazy
  • Easier
  • Fast

• I have thought that I have seen ghosts on many occasions.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Thought
  • Seen
  • Ghosts

• Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Birthday
  • Own

• Johnson said that he could repeat a complete chapter of 'The Natural History of Iceland' from the Danish of Horrebow, the whole of which was exactly thus: 'There are no snakes to be met with throughout the whole island.' 62 Chap. lxxii.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • History

• This is what I say about the scorn of the media elite: I wear their scorn as a badge of honor.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Honor

• May I borrow your wheelbarrow?— I didn't lay down my life in World War IIso that you could borrow my wheelbarrow

  

  Adrian Mitchell
  • Life
  • World
  • May

• Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Music
  • Fall
  • King

• People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Art
  • Lies

• When we are returned to power we want to put in the statute book an act which will make our people citizens of the world before they are citizens of this country.

  

  Clement Attlee
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• . . .There are certain people who come into your life, and leave a mark. . . Their place in your heart is tender; a bruise of longing, a pulse of unfinished business. Just hearing their names pushes and pulls at you in a hundred ways, and when you try to define those hundred ways, describe them even to yourself, words are useless.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• The most degrading of human passions is the fear of death. It tears away the restraints and the conventions which alone make social life possible to man; it reveals the brute in him which underlies them all. In the desperate hand-to-hand struggle for life there is no element of nobility. He who is engaged upon it throws aside honor, he throws aside self-respect, he throws aside all that would make victory worth having - he asks for nothing but bare life.

  

  Gertrude Bell
  • Death
  • Respect
  • Passion

• I can't read music. That's not where I come from musically. I come strictly from feeling, and that feeling comes from rock & roll.

  

  Bobby Keys
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Rock

• You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.

  

  Jimmy Iovine
  • Why
  • Horse
  • Ignore

• What the U.S. should do consistently is to support the liberty of the Egyptian people.

  

  Ahmed Zewail
  • People
  • Support

• When you write a song it's sometimes in a desperate moment whn you can't really articulate it. What I love about lyrics is what T.S. Eliot said: 'Good poetry is felt before it is heard.' I'm a believer in that. It's those moments when you sit yourself down, and talk to yourself in the mirror.

  

  Marcus Mumford Mumford & Sons
  • Mirror
  • Desperate
  • Articulate