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

• Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Parents
  • Reason

• 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

• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• 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

• The supreme style of love is unknown love. If the affection is known by the beloved, that love is snob. If you sacrifice your life for the beloved, and she recognises your love after you die, your soul would be appraised.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • She
  • Soul

• You want to take a charge from LeBron James coming down the lane with no helmet on - that's dangerous. But you know what? Some people like to do that stuff. So leave them alone.

  

  Jon Gruden
  • People
  • Alone

• A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Great
  • Different
  • Man

• When I was 18 or 19, I realized that everything I was doing was connected to music - writing, doing videos, making my clothes. It all centered around being an artist. So I released a mixtape that I made in my bedroom, and it ended up getting a lot more attention than I expected.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• The fourth amendment specifically was designed to prohibit general warrants. How could collecting every piece of phone data be perceived as anything but a general warrant?

  

  Blake Farenthold

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

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Alone