Arthur Hugh Clough Quotes

As ships becalmed at eve, that layWith canvas drooping, side by side,Two towers of sail, at dawn of dayAre scarce, long leagues apart, descried.

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• When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Up
  • Country
  • American

• I had long hair when I was a teenager.

  

  Beck
  • Long
  • Hair
  • Teenager

• During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Book
  • Words
  • City

• No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.

  

  Dana Boente
  • Law
  • Person
  • Above

• It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • You
  • Matter
  • Repetition

• Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • Time
  • Long
  • Desire

• My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• Hear the other side.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Hear
  • Side
  • Other

• We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Think
  • Moral
  • Animals

• 'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'

  

  Sam Simon
  • God
  • Money
  • Thought

• These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • Nature
  • Environmental
  • Days

• Custom adapts itself to expediency.

  

  Tacitus
  • Custom
  • Itself
  • Expediency

• I like new challenges and new experiences.

  

  Ramon Rodriguez
  • Challenges
  • New
  • Experiences

• The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • World
  • Family
  • Power

• Nobody wants to retire from football.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Football
  • Nobody
  • Retire

• You'd have to be an idiot to say no to 'Hunger Games.'

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Games
  • Hunger
  • Idiot

• Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Reading
  • Author
  • Chicago

• The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch.

  

  Rabbit Maranville
  • Good
  • Fall
  • Fly

• I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Music
  • Think
  • Listening

• Would-be adoptive parents have to struggle for years through a bureaucratic obstacle course at an average cost of $30,000.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Parents
  • Struggle
  • Cost

• I cannot surrender my principles, though the whole world besides should vote them down - I can make no compromise between truth and error, even though my life be the alternative.

  

  Elijah Parish Lovejoy
  • Life
  • World
  • Truth

• I stopped acting a long time ago and my primary career has been producing-directing film.

  

  Peter Billingsley
  • Time
  • Long
  • Career

• You know, it's scary when you sign onto a pilot of a series because, as much as you want the series to go, you also want it to be a character that you'd be interested in playing for a long time.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Time
  • Long
  • Character

• As ships becalmed at eve, that layWith canvas drooping, side by side,Two towers of sail, at dawn of dayAre scarce, long leagues apart, descried.

  

  Arthur Hugh Clough
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