John Betjeman Quotes

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

John Betjeman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: August 28, 1906 - May 19, 1984

Topics

PeopleInterestingBackMoreGardens

You get to choose how you perceive your reality. So why, when it comes to perceiving yourself, would you choose to see anything other than a super-huge rock star of a creature?

Jen Sincero

YourselfRealityRock StarChoose

I never think of myself as lumbering, but I guess I am. I forget how huge I am sometimes. I've seen movies where I'm with a group of people, and I'm like, 'God, I'm just so gargantuanly bigger than anyone else there.'

John Carroll Lynch

GodMyselfI AmPeopleThinkMovies

Our armed forces will fight for peace in Iraq, a peace built on more secure foundations than are found today in the Middle East. Even more important, they will fight for two human conditions of even greater value than peace: liberty and justice.

John McCain

TodayJusticePeaceFightValue

There was just something about me she did not like.

Andy Griffith

MeSheSomethingJustLikeDid

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

Andy Rooney

SadMomentDoorBlessedComfort

I just have a serious problem with business for business' sake: this bottom-dollar mentality. I have a serious problem with evil.

Jeff Ament

BusinessEvilProblemSeriousJust

Obsession is a young man's game, and my only excuse is that I never grew old.

Michael Caine

ManGameYoungNeverOldObsession

God has levels of willing and delighting. He wills and delights in things in different ways so that approval and disapproval can coexist without being contradictory, without canceling each other out. I am making the case here for infinite complexity.

John Piper

GodI AmInfiniteWithoutOutHere

I love being around kids. I couldn't figure out why all these 70-year-olds wanted to hang out with me when I was 27. Now I understand, and I'm trying to steal their energy from them like they stole from me at the time.

Stanley Druckenmiller

LoveTimeMeEnergyTryingWhy

We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.

Sidney Altman

WorkEnjoyExtraordinaryHereVery

When I knew nothing, I thought I could do anything.

Robert Duvall

ThoughtNothingAnythingKnewCould

I can consider not only great art, but the context in which that art has been created. I can consider the people who paid a price for that art to be created and whether or not I want to appreciate that art on their backs.

Roxane Gay

GreatArtPeopleAppreciateI Can

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