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

• Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Small
  • Land
  • Israel

• 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

• I don't get it: they re-package the same shitty football games every year, update a few stats, call it a new game and millions of suckers keep buying them. What's the point? Why not just go outside and play real football instead? Or even better yet, get bent. Nobody likes football.

  

  Maddox
  • Real
  • Why
  • Game

• All my brothers and sisters are really witty, and I would just sit back and enjoy them.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Witty

• When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner.

  

  Lisel Mueller
  • Time
  • Writing
  • College

• As all of us are only too aware, the loud and frantic voices of the outer world easily drown out the small, still loving voice within.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Small
  • Voices

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

  

  Arthur Machen