Louis MacNeice Quotes

It is a retrogression when human beings begin to insist on uniform, on one-mindedness, on conditioning their offspring so that all their reactions are automatic.

Louis MacNeice

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

UniformHumanBeginHuman Beings

This whole notion that it's somehow easy and simpler to live in the country is such a fallacy.

Meghan Daum

LiveEasyCountryWholeSimpler

Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.

Robert Green Ingersoll

BeautyTruthPoetryRudeOakVine

Bands like Nirvana had theatrical sensibilities, playing with image, challenging assumptions people were making about them, the apex being Kurt Cobain in a dress to make a point.

Amanda Palmer

DressPeopleAssumptionsImagePoint

Some of the most green people in our lives are our parents and grandparents, who always bought locally and carefully. I remember my grandmother would buy a jar of cream and make it last for a long time. To me, that is just as green as something with an expensive, eco-savvy label on it.

Su-chin Pak

TimeParentsPeopleMeGreenLong

When once a certain class of people has been placed by the temporal and spiritual authorities outside the ranks of those whose life has value, then nothing comes more naturally to men than murder.

Simone Weil

LifeMenSpiritualValuePeople

I almost never make stuff out of cookbooks because they're either too complicated or there's an ingredient in there that I can't find.

Trisha Yearwood

FindComplicatedNeverOutStuff

Anthony Weiner is a crafty and worthy adversary - an unrepentant lefty who is usually a savvy media player.

Roger Stone

MediaWorthyWhoPlayerSavvyLefty

One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

Lorna Luft

MotherDaughterMeQuestionsNever

Honestly, I didn't like snowboarding when I was a little girl. As I got older, it became something I did with my dad. When I was 10, I knew I was good for my age, but I never felt that I was prodigy-level or anything like that.

Chloe Kim

GoodGirlAgeSnowboardingNever

I'm not like a Sears Catalog of ideas. I don't have that many ideas. I've more or less written them over the years. Usually, I come up with a situation or a character, and it rattles around in my head until the story or the plot emerges.

Brian Helgeland

CharacterIdeasStorySituationMore

If the president does something dastardly, the impeachment process is available.

Brett Kavanaugh

ProcessPresidentSomethingAvailable

I think that it's important to have good people around you, like my friends.

Austin Mahone

GoodPeopleThinkGood PeopleYou

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