Stephen Spender Quotes

There is a certain justice in criticism. The critic is like a midwife - a tyrannical midwife.

Stephen Spender

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 28, 1909 - July 16, 1995

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Even when I use a word in the wrong order in a sentence, I get mad. It's very stressful.

Jet Li

MadWrongOrderGetEvenWord

Arguments are healthy. They clear the air.

John Deacon

HealthyAirClear

Despite the digital age, there is a very large number of venues and spaces that are looking for plays, and many of them are looking for new plays.

Tom Stoppard

AgeLookingNewDigitalLargeMany

I could never be a movie star and get up at 7:30 to be at someone else's studio.

Robbie Robertson

SomeoneNeverUpStarGetStudio

Observation and thinking are the two points of departure for all the spiritual striving of man, insofar as he is conscious of such striving. The workings of common sense, as well as the most complicated scientific researches, rest on these two fundamental pillars of our spirit.

Rudolf Steiner

ManSpiritualRestThinkingStriving

When you work with people for a long time, you start to sense what they are thinking without having to communicate explicitly.

Josh Fox

WorkTimePeopleStartThinkingYou

When you look at yourself in a mirror, do you like what you see, or do you judge your body and use the word to tell yourself lies? If you believe that you are not attractive enough, then you believe a lie, and you are using the word against yourself, against the truth.

Don Miguel Ruiz

TruthMirrorLieYourselfBelieve

His mouth is for export and his head has no entrance.

Douglas Feaver

MouthHeadEntranceExportHis

Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.

Christina Aguilera

LifeYouPlacePersonRightSee

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

Clement Freud

LiveSmokingYouLovingResolveUp

The counterculture has nothing to do with Dolce & Gabbana having a 'Hippy Summer' or something. Street kids, and kids who want to live in any sort of counter-cultural experience other than what's being presented by the mainstream media or political climate, or 'normal' cultural climate, are never going to look like that.

Chris Robinson

LiveExperiencePoliticalMediaLook

I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.

Archie Panjabi

VoiceDeepAmericanMysteriousCoach

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