Quotes of: Selected Keyword

I thought about the cameras following me in the terminal and pictured my family watching my entrance on TV. I hoped they’d be proud.

The Selection

I refuse to consider Art a drain-pipe for passion, a kind of chamberpot, a slightly more elegant substitute for gossip and confidences. No, no! Genuine poetry is not the scum of the heart.

Selected Letters

I have a habitual feeling of my real life having past, and that I am now leading a posthumous existence.

Selected Letters

How long have you been going?' said Vimes, selecting a pie. ‘Let’s see…what year is this?’ ‘Er…Dancing Dog, I think.’ ‘Since Tuesday, then,’ said Dibbler.

Night Watch

Mr Pinch accordingly, after turning over the leaves of his book with as much care as if they were living and highly cherished creatures, made his own selection, and began to read.

Martin Chuzzlewit

The whole of language is a continuous process of metaphor, and the history of semantics is an aspect of the history of culture; language is at the same time a living thing and a museum of fossils of life and civilisations.

Selections from the Prison Notebooks

He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite.

Selected Non-Fictions

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Selected Writings From The Nicomachean Ethics And Politics

Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll With all my flesh, and keep my soul.

Selected Poems

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.

Selected Operas and Plays

REQUIEM Under the wide and starry sky Dig the grave and let me lie: Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me:

Selected Poems

Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know, I do not fear the night above As I fear the friends below.

Selected Poems

A wave of Time hangs motionless on this particular shore. I notice a tree, arsenical grey in the light, or the slow Wheel of the stars, the Great Bear glittering colder than snow, And remember there was something else I was hoping for.

Selected Poems

It's a lot harder to get someone OUT of your life than it is to let them IN, so please…be selective.

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Selected Works

Here is a man whose life and actions the world has already condemned - yet whose enormous fortune...has already brought him acquittal!

Selected Works

I think that when in doubt about the truth of an issue, it's safer and in better taste to select the least numerous of the adversaries.

We the Living

What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, no matter how well selected, or the best society, or the most admirable routine of life, compared with the discipline of looking always at what is to be seen?

Walden

Liberty is an affair of laws and institutions which bring rights and duties into equilibrium. It is not at all an affair of selecting the proper class to rule.

What Social Classes Owe to Each Other

I think the best thing an artist can do is not hang out with other artists. I really dislike hanging out with musicians, for the most part, except for a few select friends, because I don't like to talk about music all the time.

Justin Townes Earle

The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perfor...

Jackson Katz