A. E. Housman Quotes

A. E. Housman: Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. | Citatis

Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

A. E. Housman

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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.

Eavan Boland
- Time
- Society
- Changes
I think when you're a director, it's hard to do something unless you're absolutely over-the-moon in love with it. The audience, they spend 90 minutes with it, but for you, it's anywhere between a year and a half to three years of your life, every day, working on it.

Adam Green
- Life
- Working
- Director
I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

Carl Lewis
I had luck, but I worked hard and I suffered. It's not just photography I'm talking about. It's about whatever dream you want it to be.

Sam Abell
- Dream
- Photography
- Luck
I have been vain since birth. I expected other people to like what I did, although my vanity has definitely diminished over the years.

Wallace Shawn
- People
- Years
- Vanity
Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.

Kate Christensen
- Great
- City
- New York