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Claude McKay Quotes

Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines.

Claude McKay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: jamaican
Birth: September 15, 1889 - May 22, 1948

Topics

Clothes Strange Ghosts Moonlight

In the characters that I play, I'm so involved in the look; it's very, very important to me. Because how a person presents him or herself to the world, they're saying something about themselves. It's their first form of advertisement.

Jessica Chastain

Me World Saying Look Person Play

Let us dig our furrow in the fields of the commonplace.

Jean Henri Fabre

Fields Dig Us Our Let Us

My mother is a survivor who's had a lot of things happen in her life that have been very trying.

Michael C. Hall

Life Mother Trying Things Happen Her

As an actor, my main focus is finding good writing and attacking a good role.

Amanda Peet

Good Focus Writing Finding Actor

One of the gratuities about being a director is that you can volunteer yourself out of difficult details.

Steven Spielberg

Yourself Details You Difficult Out

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

Luke Ford

Time Habit Space Isolation Far Away

I've been studying myself because I always want to improve.

Loni Love

Myself Want Studying Always Improve

So much of our fictional medievalism is distorted through a lens of Protestantism and the Reformation, slanted even further through Victorian anti-Catholicism. The depiction of actual medieval attitudes toward the Church is remarkably rare.

Judith Tarr

Church Lens Through Rare Even Much

For me, you can't be a big fat pig up there, slovenly and singing croaky and whatnot. You have to work.

Dolores O'Riordan

Work Me Singing Fat You Pig

Haute couture is like an orchestra, for which only Balenciaga is the conductor. The rest of us are just musicians, following the directions he gives us.

Christian Dior

Rest Musicians Orchestra Us Just He

I was making projections about 'Humans of New York,' back when I had zero followers, that made all my friends and family roll their eyes. I'd throw out these huge numbers: 'One day, a million people are gonna be looking at this. Trust me.' And even those wild, wild numbers I was throwing out have just been smashed. So, it's a good feeling.

Brandon Stanton

Family Good Eyes Trust Day New York

Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.

Willy Ley

Ideas Never Source Rivers Just One