Austin Clarke Quotes

Yeats regarded his work as the close of an epoch, and the least of his later lyrics brings the sense of a great occasion. English critics have tried to claim him for their tradition, but, heard closely, his later music has that tremulous lyrical undertone which can be found in the Anglo-Irish eloquence of the eighteenth century.

Austin Clarke

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Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: May 9, 1896 - March 19, 1974

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I've been totally replaced by people who are superior. I was doing, like, 15 different things. It's very gratifying to watch your job done better.

Jim McKelvey

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When I went to my local grammar school, Lurgan College, girls were not encouraged to study science. My parents hit the roof and, along with other parents, demanded a curriculum change.

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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Art is good, bad, boring, ugly, useful to us or not.

Jerry Saltz

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Dad was synonymous with his charm and wit and grace, and it was sort of the perfect way to go for him.

Jennifer Grant

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I have chosen to kneel because I simply cannot stand for the kind of oppression this country is allowing against its own people.

Megan Rapinoe

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George Eliot tenderly carried in her heart the burdens of our race. She looked through pity's tears upon the faults and frailties of mankind.

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Earn the right to be proud and confident.

John Wooden

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I was running around and bouncing out of the pram as a baby.

Jason Statham

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It seems that we're heading toward the day that films will be released in all platforms simultaneously, albeit with a cost premium to see it at home. But I hope that theater-going doesn't end - I think that watching movies on the big screen with an audience is still the best format and also an important one for society.

Jonathan Mostow

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No expectations, no tension between goals and performance, no outrage, resolve or intention, no action, no results. There's only one way to get a government - and a nation - to stop drifting to low performance. That's to wake up and insist on higher standards.

Donella Meadows

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If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?

Branford Marsalis

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I was practically raised with Christmas music.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

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