Quotes of: Whitman Keyword

Choosing sepia is all to do with trying to make the image look romantic and idealistic. It's sort of a soft version of propaganda.

Martin Parr

I'm a romantic realist. I knew I would become a star, just as I know some day the bubble will burst.

Telly Savalas

The telephone, which interrupts the most serious conversations and cuts short the most weighty observations, has a romance of its own.

Virginia Woolf

You can't have an up without a down, a right without a left, a back without a front - or a happy without a sad.

Harlan Coben

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Joseph Campbell

The problem, when comparing contemporary television to television in 1974, is that TV has become not just bad but sad.

P. J. O'Rourke

Tears are the natural penalties of pleasure. It is a law that we should pay for all that we enjoy.

William Gilmore Simms

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

William Shakespeare

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Erma Bombeck

Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.

Harsha Bhogle

Traditionally, sport has looked down at number crunchers, but the reality is that they give sport the financial sustenance it needs.

Harsha Bhogle

Sailing is a completely new sport for me and I wasn't sure what to expect but I've definitely got the bug.

Kirsty Gallacher

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

Michael Lewis

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

Ben Elton

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.

Frances E. Willard

What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!

Henry Austin Dobson

A lot of actors find it impossible not to ask for the audience's sympathy. They have a need to twinkle.

Julian Fellowes

Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.

Jonas Gahr Store

I learnt pity, sympathy, and what it was like to be at the other end of the stick. Such lessons can't be learnt in lecture halls.

Lionel Blue

Having a baby is a disaster for your career. I don't think there's any sympathy.

Mariella Frostrup

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.

Ann Curry