Arthur Symons Quotes

Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses?How soft is this one, how subtle this is,How fluttering swift as a bird's kiss that is,As a bird that taps at a leafy lattice;How this one clings and how that unclosesFrom bud to flower in the way of roses.

Arthur Symons

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• I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Obsessed
  • Proportion
  • Perceived

• I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.

  

  Karen McCarthy
  • Best
  • Made
  • Did

• I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.

  

  Mal Peet
  • School
  • Art
  • Odd

• It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • True
  • Numbers
  • Comfortable

• I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Up
  • Success

• I used to listen to 'Perfect Day' by Hoku every single day in high school! 'On this perfect day, nothin' standin' in my way... Don't you try to rain on my perfect day.' It pumped me up when I was feeling down or defeated, whether it was from the cool kids making me feel left out or feeling overwhelmed with homework and mean teachers.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Up
  • School
  • Kids

• I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Girl

• I skate now for fun and to keep myself in shape.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Fun
  • Myself
  • Now

• Most of the big banks were shot through with short-termism, deceptive practices and self-dealing. We must institute basic changes in corporate governance and in management practice to restore responsibility and honesty for the sake of the economy and for the self-respect of the country.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Country
  • Respect
  • Responsibility

• I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Business

• If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.

  

  Victor Koo
  • You
  • Like
  • Sharing

• Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Book
  • Hope

• Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Work
  • Home
  • Street

• Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Control
  • Me
  • Marriage

• Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My Baby Just Cares for Me,' I wish I had written 'This Will Be Our Year,' I mean, there's millions of them. 'Wouldn't It Be Nice?'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • God
  • Nice
  • Wish

• If we are really serious about preventing another crisis like the 2008 meltdown, we should simply ban complex financial instruments unless they can be unambiguously shown to benefit society in the long run.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • Long
  • Society
  • Serious

• I was surrounded by women and all I would hear is of them complaining about their shoes. Back then, 'comfort' was a dirty word in fashion footwear. This was before fur loafers or sneakers. So, I wanted to create a shoe that was like slipping your foot into a glove - something beautiful, feminine, and sexy at the same time.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Time
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• I cannot live anywhere else except India.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Live
  • India
  • Else

• How I wish you could see the potential The potential of you and me It's like a book elegantly bound, but In a language that you can't read just yet You got to spend some time, love You got to spend some time with me And I know that you'll find love I will possess your heart

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Book

• You have to edit the material. That assumes that some kind of a mind is operating in relation to the material. Not all minds are the same. Every aspect of filmmaking requires choice. The selection of the subject, the shooting, editing and length are all aspects of choice.

  

  Frederick Wiseman
  • Mind

• They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

  

  William Cowper
  • Truth
  • Wisdom
  • Weed

• Why not just have fun with clothes? We should be more light-hearted about how we dress, how we look. If you experiment, you can go wrong, clearly; but you can have a wonderful time doing it!

  

  Orla Brady
  • Time
  • Why
  • Fun

• I try to tell the story about the song with the believability that I've lived it myself and I understand what it's all about.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • Song
  • Story
  • Believability

• Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses?How soft is this one, how subtle this is,How fluttering swift as a bird's kiss that is,As a bird that taps at a leafy lattice;How this one clings and how that unclosesFrom bud to flower in the way of roses.

  

  Arthur Symons
  • Song
  • Sweet
  • Flower