A. E. Housman Quotes

The rainy Pleiads wester,Orion plunges prone,The stroke of midnight ceases,And I lie down alone.

A. E. Housman

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• I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.

  

  Ville Valo HIM
  • Love
  • Song
  • Night

• Anyone who is interested in the psychology of children will have observed that whereas one child will resist temptation or seduction, another will easily yield to it. There are children who will hardly oppose any resistance to the invitation of an unknown person to follow him; others who react in an opposite way in the same circumstances.

  

  Karl Abraham
  • Children
  • Child
  • Same

• The American public got to see for themselves every day, all day, how this trial progressed. There's a lot of value in the public being able to see how the system works.

  

  Lance Ito
  • American
  • Day
  • Value

• I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Think
  • Religious
  • Religion

• In countries other than Pakistan - I won't necessarily call them 'Western' - people support me. This is because people there respect others. They don't do this because I am a Pashtun or a Punjabi, a Pakistani, or an Iranian, they do it because of one's words and character. This is why I am being respected and supported there.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Why
  • Character

• Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.

  

  Eduardo Chillida
  • Work
  • Art
  • Man

• When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Time
  • Mother
  • House

• As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Child
  • Young
  • Illness

• I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fun

• I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Mistakes
  • Triumphs

• Necessity has no law.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Law
  • Necessity

• When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Long
  • Children
  • Education

• Life is short, and it is here to be lived.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Short
  • Here

• Every woman has a mother, and every woman will have an issue with that mother and things that mother did or didn't do. It just depends on how you choose to process the lessons that you learned from your own mother.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Mother
  • Woman
  • Process

• At times, my very own media makes me cringe, and occasionally out loud. By the way, nothing clears the head like an out-loud cringe.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Way
  • Media
  • Cringe

• Vanity is as old as the mammoth.

  

  W. L. George
  • Old
  • Vanity
  • Mammoth

• Because I'm shy and a bit quiet, I think people assume I'm an elegant person.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Think
  • Shy

• I'm the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It's a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don't like - and the fact that it's not reversible.

  

  J. Cole
  • Music
  • Small
  • City

• Shortly after we arrived in Baghdad, we had another conversation with the ambassador. He said that he wanted us to give him the timeline, because we had 90 days to get these prisons operational and transfer responsibility back to the Iraqis.

  

  Janis Karpinski
  • Responsibility

• You have to be good. And keep getting better. For every writer taken on, another is dropped. A paradox: you have to rise to stay level.

  

  Matt Haig
  • Good
  • Taken

• These golden mattersOf Gyges and his treasuriesAre no concern of mine.Jealousy has no power over me,Nor do I envy a god his work,And I do not burn to rule.Such things have noFascination for my eyes.

  

  Archilochus
  • Work
  • God
  • Power

• When you get together with childhood friends, for example, there's an intimacy that you instantly have because you share something really profound in your past. There's a shortcut to emotional intimacy if you share your past with somebody. It's really empowering when you're reunited with people who share that.

  

  Jon Tenney
  • People
  • Friends
  • Together

• 'Good morning, Pooh Bear', said Eeyore gloomily. 'If it is a good morning', he said. 'Which I doubt', said he.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Good
  • Morning
  • Doubt

• The rainy Pleiads wester,Orion plunges prone,The stroke of midnight ceases,And I lie down alone.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Alone