Stephen Spender Quotes

When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.

Stephen Spender

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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What the hell did I do in the 80's? Midnight Run. A perfect movie. Just a perfect movie.

Joe Pantoliano

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Conservatism is about the basic rights of individuals. God created us. As far as the government goes, the Founding Fathers based the Constitution off of Christian values. It goes hand-in-hand. As far as the Republican Party? I felt connected to it because individual freedom should not be legislated by the federal government.

Joe Wurzelbacher

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I have a lot of favorite films. I tend to love the silliness of 'Bringing Up Baby.' 'Charade' is fantastic. 'His Girl Friday,' the banter in that, that alone made me want to be a writer.

Jennifer Grant

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I swear to God, I don't remember anything Gwyneth Paltrow was in. Some people get hot by association. I heard more about her and Brad Pitt and I ever heard about her work.

Jennifer Lopez

WorkGodPeopleRememberSome People

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it.

John Gresham Machen

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That's what I always hoped for when I became an actor - that you would do something that people can escape to, find identification with and excitement in and be able to talk about it in bars, restaurants, and workplaces.

Andrew Lincoln

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We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.

Maya Angelou

AloneIgnoranceSurviveThinkUs

An 18-year-old is good enough for our business, and we can teach them engineering in two years.

Shiv Nadar

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The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up.

Bob Uecker

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Doo-wop is special music to me because it's so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

Bruno Mars

MusicMeEmotionsSpecialBecause

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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Despite a rich history of black Americans involved in the Catholic Church, invisibility is a big problem for black Catholics in America.

Anthea Butler

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