Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes

Nay, if there's room for poets in the worldA little overgrown, (I think there is)Their sole work is to represent the age,Their age, not Charlemagne's, - this live, throbbing age,That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires,And spends more passion, more heroic heat,Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms,Than Roland with his knights, at Roncesvalles.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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• The response of anybody interested in liberty is that we all have a say and the ability to have an argument is exactly what liberty is, even though it may never be resolved. In any authoritarian society the possessor of power dictates, and if you try and step outside he will come after you.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • May
  • Power
  • Society

• I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Father
  • Alone
  • Mom

• For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Black
  • Feel
  • Humor

• When talking about writing, I often use the analogy of archaeology. There are these great tunes all around. Your skill as a musician allows you to pick them out without breaking them.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Great
  • Writing
  • You

• I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
  • Myself
  • Try
  • I Can

• We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Mind
  • Running

• Turning 18 is a big deal.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Deal
  • Big
  • Big Deal

• I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Different
  • Think
  • Know

• He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Real
  • Hair
  • Moment

• When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Action
  • Hero

• The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Experience
  • Nice
  • Bonus

• You can cage the singer but not the song.

  

  Harry Belafonte
  • Song
  • You
  • Singer

• I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Been

• You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Together
  • Team
  • Win

• From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Country
  • Business
  • Experience

• I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Game
  • Play
  • Smile

• We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.

  

  A. E. Hotchner
  • People
  • Smile
  • Stars

• I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.

  

  Laura Spencer
  • Family
  • School
  • Opportunity

• I ended up living in braids. It was the '90s - thin braids were very popular - and my mom took me to a lady's kitchen. I got it done, and I've never stopped.

  

  Jessica Williams
  • Up
  • Done
  • Mom

• And I think in your 40s, you land a little bit, physically and mentally, you arrive at a place where you feel you've learned some stuff. Having children at that point meant I had something very useful to do for the next 20 years.

  

  Mark Strong
  • Children

• Today, possible presidential candidate Donald Trump released his birth certificate. It lists his eyes as blue and his hair as ridiculous.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Today
  • Eyes
  • Hair

• Sometimes, trying to make a work of art can be very difficult and very painful.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Art

• I do not believe you can work with animals - certainly you cannot train them - without deciding that if humans have souls, dogs do, too.

  

  Donald McCaig
  • Work
  • Believe

• Nay, if there's room for poets in the worldA little overgrown, (I think there is)Their sole work is to represent the age,Their age, not Charlemagne's, - this live, throbbing age,That brawls, cheats, maddens, calculates, aspires,And spends more passion, more heroic heat,Betwixt the mirrors of its drawing-rooms,Than Roland with his knights, at Roncesvalles.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Work
  • Live
  • Age