Louis MacNeice Quotes

In January 1921, I found myself wonderfully alone in an empty carriage in a rocking train in the night between Waterloo and Sherborne. Stars on each side of me; I ran from side to side of the carriage, checking the constellations.

Louis MacNeice

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: September 12, 1907 - September 3, 1963

Topics

StarsAloneJanuaryMyselfMeNight

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

EducationSuccessYouLivingWill

It's easy to put on a Deep Purple record and say, 'That sounds great.' But why? Part of it is individual practice, but by playing together, a talent of meshing happens.

Joe Perry

GreatTogetherTalentPracticeDeep

With PayPal, you have to send people over to their website... whereas with Stripe, we offer a way to integrate payments into the website, on the website or into a mobile app. That is what all the best businesses care about, so we make it very easy, very fast, very simple and very cheap to do this.

John Collison

BestSimplePeopleCareEasyYou

We concluded that you cannot rely on delta hedging alone. It sounds simplistic to say that now, but back then, this was the sort of thing people were only just beginning to realize.

John Hull

AloneBeginningPeopleYouBackSay

I love cop shows and crime books and thrillers, and before I die I'm gonna play a cop.

Amy Sedaris

LoveDiePlayCrimeCopBooks

We talk a lot about individual rights, but in fact Americans are very willing to give up our individual rights if it means our property values will be protected, and so on.

Robert D. Kaplan

ValuesWillTalkIndividualProperty

I don't use the harpsichord because it evokes a past time period: I use it because I like the sound.

Julia Holter

TimePastSoundBecauseLikeUse

If you could say of any one individual that the court as an institution is the length and shadow of that individual, surely it would be John Marshall.

William Rehnquist

ShadowYouSayIndividualWouldAny

I loved Wimbledon and what it meant, but the surface felt uncomfortable. I just didn't like it, I was a hard-court guy, a Californian kid.

Pete Sampras

LovedUncomfortableKidGuySurface

When a part of our nation gets knocked down, we come together to help pick it up again. No questions asked. That's the American way, and I would expect every single member of Congress to support that sentiment with their words, their actions, and their votes.

Paul Tonko

TogetherWordsSupportAmericanHelp

Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future.

Niels Bohr

FutureDifficultPredictionVery

When you think of a great twist or a red herring or a way of misdirecting the reader, it is good, but you know that they are just tricks at the end of the day, and the way to keep interest is to write characters that people care about.

Mark Billingham

GoodGreatDayRedPeopleThink

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