Louis MacNeice Quotes

Democracy - or any improvement on it - will rest on the layman's right to criticize. His criticism will be often - very often - damn silly, but if, like Plato and the Fascists, we take away his right to criticize, we take away his right to appreciate.

Louis MacNeice

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Influenza is a serious disease. Kids die of influenza, both in Japan and the United States, and if you give a drug to people who are at risk of dying, there will be people who die who got the drug,... There is no signal the drug is doing it as opposed to the disease.

Robert Nelson

PeopleDieDoingYouSeriousWill

What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere - it is an art form in itself.

Anita Brookner

ArtInterestingNowhereFormAbout

The way I did it, every job was A+.

Steve Wozniak

JobWayDidEvery

I used to go to the stables and fool with the mules. My mother lived in constant fear that I might be brought home with a hoof print on my stomach.

Rudolph Valentino

FearMotherHomeFoolGoStomach

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

MeanSafeKeepOneselfBuryDoes

When we started work on the iPhone, the motivation there was we all pretty much couldn't stand our phones, and we wanted a better phone.

Jonathan Ive

WorkStandBetterMotivationPhone

I wasn't aware of it at the time, but I was a big favorite with the Mafia.

Brenda Lee

TimeMafiaBigAwareFavorite

As a teenager, my dad taught me about the idea of unintended consequences, and I've had the experience, and how to deal with it, pounded into my soul over the years.

Brad Feld

ExperienceSoulMeMy SoulOver

The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous.

Pierre Schaeffer

WorldDangerousMoreThingsJust

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.

Susanne Langer

NatureArtFeelingObjectification

Ideally, I want us to be working on things where if we're not working on them, they won't happen; companies where if we don't fund them they will not receive funding.

Peter Thiel

WantWillHappenThingsUsWorking

I've auditioned for pretty much every one of my father's movies.

Scott Eastwood

FatherMoviesPrettyMuchEvery

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