Matthew Arnold Quotes

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

Matthew Arnold

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 24, 1822 - April 15, 1888

Topics

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The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.

Jerry Seinfeld

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I went around the corner to motion pictures.

Jerry Reed

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I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

Jennifer Carpenter

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We have these words 'space' and 'time,' but you can't touch them. They're not objects, they're not things, they go forever. Space and time are really tools of animal sense perception, the way we organize and construct information.

Robert Lanza

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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

Jean-Luc Godard

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Why is UCLA and Georgia Tech in China to play a basketball game? Missing all that school, and then force-feeding their fans the idea of 'student-athletes.'

Jeff Van Gundy

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I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York.

Michael C. Hall

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Praise the Lord, but do me a favor, don't ever say 'Stephen Baldwin' and 'ministry' in the same sentence. I make movies, and in Hollywood, that's career suicide.

Stephen Baldwin

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When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.

Sofia Vergara

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I was a street footballer.

Riyad Mahrez

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No expense has been incurred but what has been approved of and provided for by Parliament.

Robert Walpole

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