Jones Very Quotes

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

Jones Very

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: 1813 - 1880

Topics

WorldNextThoseMacbethHamlet

I will not undertake to offer an opinion on the capacity of Hindustan to produce cotton. The region is large, and the soil and climate various, the population great and wages low; but I must be permitted to doubt the success of the experiment of driving us out of the market, though backed and patronized by English capital and energy.

John C. Calhoun

SuccessGreatOpinionEnergyDriving

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.

Jean de La Fontaine

BeastSkinBearNeverSellBefore

Jimmy Baldwin was not only a writer, an international literary figure: he was a man, spirit, voice - old and black and terrible as that first ancestor.

Amiri Baraka

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I'm always conscious of what I'm writing, conscious of what the actor may ask me. I have a defense for nearly every line in the song.

Stephen Sondheim

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I don't write about nature, but I'm definitely very inspired by it.

Sigrid

NatureWriteInspiredVeryAbout

People often only see one side to someone's personality, but there are levels.

Ross Lynch

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Success has affected my self-definition in that I have more money. Writers pooh-pooh that idea, but it's a huge deal.

Mary Karr

SuccessMoneyMoreDealIdeaHuge

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Miguel de Cervantes

ConversationWrongSayRightForever

I think there are a lot of outside interests that would like to see Sarah Palin in some form of elected office. Most in Alaska recognize our former governor is really not involved in or engaged in the state anymore, that she's moved to other interests.

Lisa Murkowski

ThinkAlaskaSheOfficeOutsideSee

I have worried about getting pigeon-holed, but now I think I've done enough weird, offbeat stuff not to be. And I also know that I do things for the right reasons: I've made my money, so I don't have to say yes to anything.

Christopher Meloni

MoneyThinkWeirdEnoughKnowDone

I don't think I'm too thin at all. I understand when people say, 'Well your face gets gaunt,' but to get your bottom half to be the right size, your face might have to be a little gaunt. You choose your battles.

Courteney Cox

PeopleFaceThinkYouChooseSay

I've discovered people in my lifetime who are like, 'I always wanted to sing but... ' It's like, 'Well then, did you try?' My thing was always not caring about failure.

Brian Tyree Henry

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