Tony Harrison Quotes

Honours seem to be the nature of British life. It's horrible. Maybe I'm mad, but the older I get, the less I want to have honours loaded on me.

Tony Harrison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 30, 1937

Topics

LifeNatureMeMadWantSeem

People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend.

Jim Morrison

LifeFriendFearDeathPainPeople

If I play against you the first time - or it doesn't even have to be the first time - and you want to be all physical and just talk, or talking trash or whatever, it just gets me going.

Joel Embiid

TimeMeTalkingYouPlayWant

I was too young to have watched '90210.'

Megan Fox

YoungWatchedToo

There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us.

Sophocles

PowerfulConscienceWithinUsWhich

My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival.

Sonia Rykiel

WomanSurvivalQuestionCompleteWho

Am I ever going to be able to play football again? What's going on with my career? I was just thinking things like that. You've got tears going down your eyes. You've got your trainers right there and my parents right there. I was just thinking, "Is this it?" I didn't know what a knee injury was. I'd never felt pain like that.

Rob Gronkowski

EyesFootballPainParentsTears

We need to lower marginal tax rates and increase investment.

Ron DeSantis

TaxInvestmentNeedIncreaseLower

'Gathering Blue' was a separate book. I wanted to explore what a society might become after a catastrophic world event. Only at the end did I realize I could make it connect to 'The Giver.'

Lois Lowry

BlueWorldSocietyBookEndBecome

I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery paths of female delicacy.

Deborah Sampson

I AmPathsDoneWillCallError

I just want the state fixed, and I just want to do the right thing for the taxpayers.

Bruce Rauner

Do The Right ThingWantRightJust

All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.

Annie Dillard

OutPureUpStartedBooksPlain

I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.

William Odom

WarRememberDebateWayServingUs

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