Philip Sidney Quotes

If you have so earth-creeping a mind that it cannot lift itself up to look to the sky of poetry... thus much curse I must send you, in the behalf of all poets, that while you live, you live in love, and never get favour for lacking skill of a sonnet; and, when you die, your memory die from the earth for want of an epitaph.

Philip Sidney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: soldier
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 30, 1554 - October 17, 1586

Topics

LoveLiveSkyPoetryMemoryMind

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

HappinessFeetPushRunWherever

Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.

Mehmet Oz

LonelinessOceanYourselfHumanity

When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.

John McGahern

AttitudeMeThoughtSomethingDid

I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian.

Siri Hustvedt

MotherI AmGrowing UpAmericanUp

I'd rather write a check than make myself look ridiculous.

Rocky Wirtz

MyselfLookRidiculousWriteCheck

When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea.

Joss Whedon

LeaderMenProblemCreateHerIcon

There's just a feeling you get from certain things you do in life that just kind of feel pure and independent of what's actually, physically, going on.

Craig Ferguson

LifeFeelYouFeelingKindPure

Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed.

Brewster Kahle

HistoryPeopleLongAuthoritarianUp

People's choice to become vegan, from people I've spoken to, seems motivated by fear.

Anthony Bourdain

FearPeopleChoiceBecomeVegan

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Arthur Schopenhauer

AgeGreatYouHumanBeginHead

If you're in the position to help someone and you do it, it's very rewarding.

Tim Robbins

SomeoneHelpYouPositionVery

I go home every weekend to see my family.

Tim Griffin

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