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Louis MacNeice Quotes

In writing 'A Portrait of Athens' I have attempted - rather impressionistically - to give a panorama of its present. But I have also brought in its past because I sincerely think that there is a continuity.

Louis MacNeice

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Past Writing Think Present Portrait

I own motorized bar stools.

Jimmie Johnson

Bar Own

I stopped being an engaged journalist and became a disengaged novelist.

Jim Crace

Being Engaged Journalist Stopped

Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had.

Joe J. Walsh

Hero Woman Man Country Uniform Said

The American diet causes disease. It is composed of 25 percent animal products and 62 percent processed foods and only 5 percent of calories from fruits and vegetables.

Joel Fuhrman

Animal American Diet Vegetables Only

There is a huge amount of wealth that's generated here in Silicon Valley.

John Morgridge

Wealth Valley Here Silicon Valley

Whirlyball is only the most awesome sport on the planet! It's like bumper cars plus lacrosse meets basketball.

St. Vincent

Basketball Awesome Planet Only Like

I saw the government really using the excuse of a weak economy and a financial crisis to create more government and to push onto the American entrepreneurial society more and more restraints and government activity.

Rob Portman

Government Society American Push

I have not met, in Afghanistan, in even the most remote community, anybody who does not want a say in who governs them. Most remote community, I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.

Rory Stewart

Community Say Want Vote Never Even

I think Direct Cinema's trying to be insightful by looking at reality in a very close way while, in fact, much more is staged than we like to think. In cinema verite, it's about trying to make something invisible visible - the role of fantasy and imagination in everyday life.

Joshua Oppenheimer

Life Imagination Looking Think Way

DNA, like a tape recording, carries a message in which there are specific instructions for a job to be done.

Arthur Kornberg

Job Done DNA Recording Like Message

Most campaigns rely on photographs because the moment you do something that is a graphic interpretation where any artistic license has been taken, I think a lot of people are scared that it's going to be perceived as propaganda.

Shepard Fairey

Moment People Think You Propaganda

But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.

Thomas E. Mann

Patriotism Unity Measure Approval