Philip Sidney Quotes

Poesy must not be drawn by the ears: it must be gently led, or rather, it must lead, which was partly the cause that made the ancient learned affirm it was a divine, and no human skill, since all other knowledges lie ready for any that have strength of wit; a poet no industry can make, if his own genius be not carried into it.

Philip Sidney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.

Joe Simon

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I have the most eclectic music taste out there. I can be listening to an indie pop song just as easily as I could be listening to a Carly Simon song from the '70s to a country song.

Jennifer Hyman

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I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word - it is short, sharp, and abusive.

John Gregory Dunne

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I couldn't become a policeman, so being county prosecutor is the next best thing.

Robert P. McCulloch

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I grew up right in the heart of Treme, so it was a real music neighborhood, and there was a bunch of bands like the Dirty Dozen Brass Band around.

Trombone Shorty

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It's much cheaper to influence elections than it is to go to war.

Toomas Hendrik Ilves

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I'm focused, as you can tell, on 2014 and on doing my job as a senator.

Rob Portman

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I'm the oldest and I've got two sisters.

Lisa Snowdon

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I'm chairing a UNESCO committee on how to improve global Internet communications for science; help third-world people get onto the Net so they can be part of the process.

Joshua Lederberg

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A company gets better at the things it practices.

Jason Fried

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What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.

Jay Electronica

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Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.

David Tang

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