Arthur Machen Quotes

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

Arthur Machen

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• Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Director
  • Big
  • Platform

• From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back to the sacred origins of literature - the holy book. There's nothing holy about it for me, but it should be serious, and it should be totally transparent.

  

  Edmund White
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Truth

• One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bad

• If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Me
  • Start

• I don't know how many kids I am going to have, but definitely I am one of those women who wants to have family and kids.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Women
  • Family
  • Kids

• I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.

  

  Kaskade
  • Great
  • Music
  • Stand

• I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Think
  • Expected
  • Behave

• I am most familiar with the Gujarati language.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Language
  • Gujarati

• I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • School
  • Football
  • Player

• Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.

  

  Warren Zevon
  • Time
  • Blonde
  • Every Time

• I'm in awful shape. I'm trying to get in better shape. My girlfriend, she's in good shape. She gives me health tips sometimes, like, 'Hannibal, you're going to die.' Stuff like that.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Trying
  • Health
  • Girlfriend

• I am a child of the '70s, so I love classic rock - Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, and I also love Coldplay.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Love
  • Rock
  • Child

• I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Comedy
  • Start
  • Humble

• God bless each and everyone of you.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • God

• One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense. Repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by something better, which is as free and original as if they had not been.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Long
  • Free

• The sculptor must learn to reproduce the surface, which means all that vibrates on the surface: spirit, soul, love, passion - life. ... Sculpture is thus the art of hollows and mounds, not of smoothness, or even polished planes.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Life
  • Art
  • Soul

• Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • Financial

• Diversity in books is a civil rights frontier.

  

  Jewell Parker Rhodes
  • Diversity

• I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving. It's not about speed. And gold medals. It's about refusing to be stopped. you might find that one particular direction proves difficult, but there are many directions on a compass. Infinite, in fact. As long as you keep searching, you'll find your winning way.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Long
  • Running
  • Moving

• American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.

  

  Imelda May
  • American
  • Band
  • Brilliant

• If you're a vegan fast food joint in L.A., you just don't speak the same language as the heartland.

  

  Kimbal Musk
  • Food
  • Vegan

• Daniel is unlucky to miss out in this game but after tomorrow there are still two further training sessions before the first ODI at the Telstra Dome on Wednesday. ... We are very pleased to have nominated Brian Lara as our vice-captain. He has tremendous experience and will be able to provide invaluable support to our captain Shaun Pollock.

  

  Brian Lara
  • Game
  • Daniel
  • Telstra Dome

• It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.

  

  Arthur Machen