Austin Clarke Quotes

Moral training in Ireland is severe and lasts until marriage. Even in childhood, we are taught by the pious clergy to battle against bad thoughts so that we may preserve our holy purity.

Austin Clarke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I think of myself as actually kind of prudish and girly, but I don't know if a lot of other people would see me that way.

Anna D. Shapiro

MyselfPeopleMeThinkKnowKind

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

NatureNeverDeceiveUsWho

When I wrote my first blog, I got one response. Now, I sometimes get as many as 400 responses for my posts.

Amitabh Bachchan

NowSometimesFirstGotGetMany

I get to experiment with a lot of looks with my character so that's really fun for me. It's like getting to paint a new canvas everyday.

Sophia Bush

CharacterFunMeLooksNewEveryday

I was a scared kid... I think I was born a nervous wreck, and I think movies were one way to find a way transferring my own private horrors to everyone else's lives. It was less of an escape and more of an exorcism.

Steven Spielberg

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I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America.

Shirley Chisholm

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You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?

Toni Morrison

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I've never considered being a cop. I could be a teacher, I could be a minister, a social worker or a professor. As long I don't have to see blood and see people die every day, if I could inspire or help in their lives, that's something I'd want to do.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

TeacherDayPeopleInspireDieHelp

It would not be permissible for you to build a home and not let law enforcement in if they had a search warrant. If they think there's a crime ongoing, they go to court and get a warrant, and they're permitted to come in your home under the Fourth Amendment.

Mike Pompeo

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I'm no natural beauty. If I'm gonna have any looks at all, I'm gonna have to create them.

Dolly Parton

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'Tell to Win' reveals the key elements that tellers of purposeful stories utilize to engage their listeners and turn them into viral advocates of the tellers' goals.

Peter Guber

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The jihadists of ISIS wish to go back to what they see as a more pure form of Islam from the time of the Prophet and his companions. They believe in a literal interpretation of the Koran.

Paul Wood

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