Joseph Addison Quotes

There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dress.

Joseph Addison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: May 1, 1672 - June 17, 1719

Topics

NatureLadyVariableThing

I have never been a star; I'm just an old character bag.

Joan Hickson

CharacterBagNeverOldStarBeen

'Rugrats' was my favorite cartoon growing up as a kid.

Michael Angarano

Growing UpGrowingKidUpCartoon

Afghanistan's borders are arbitrary, drawn to meet 19th-century political needs rather than to respect ethnic or religious patterns.

Stephen Kinzer

RespectPoliticalMeetBordersNeeds

Robert Treat Paine was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

Treat Williams

TreatIndependenceDeclarationPaine

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Tony Benn

FailureWarDiplomacyRepresents

One of the important things about familiar form and metricality is that it draws attention to the physical nature of language: the spell-binding nature of it and the ceremony of articulation.

Tony Harrison

NatureLanguageAttentionImportant

Dad never understood why Ridley wanted to go to art school, and then I came along six years later and wanted to do the same thing.

Tony Scott

ArtSchoolGoWhyNeverSame

I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody.

Rufus Wainwright

BeautifulWordsThinkSayLineFan

I love writing music.

Mary Steenburgen

LoveMusicWritingI Love

I didn't really experience any hardship like people tend to think of when they hear the words 'Detroit, Michigan.' I think Big Sean is a much better ambassador for the city.

Mike Posner

ExperienceWordsPeopleCityBetter

Patience is not simply the ability to wait - it's how we behave while we're waiting.

Joyce Meyer

PatienceWaitingWaitAbilityBehave

When I had my kids, I took a lot of homeopathic things, and I had them both with no painkillers.

Jasmine Guinness

ThingsKidsBothThemTookHad

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