Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Thomas Carlyle Quotes

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: scottish
Birth: December 4, 1795 - February 5, 1881

Topics

Winter Long Summer April Wet May

I think the audiences in Chicago are really open. They're engaged and eager, and they don't feel cynical to me. Sometimes in New York, there's a sense of, 'Prove it to me; prove this is worth my time.' I never felt that in Chicago.

Time New York Me Think Feel Worth

I'm an essayist. And this is a genre that has existed for a few thousand years. Ever heard of Cicero? So these rules that I'm working under are not mine but rather were established by writers who recognized the difference between the hard research of journalism and the kind of inquiry of mind that characterizes the essay.

Mind Research Journalism Rules Kind

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Love Hope Romantic Walls Destination

When we were working on 'River Ota' in the '90s, I learnt to read Japanese, which was how I discovered that it incorporates elements of Chinese calligraphy.

River Working Japanese Read Elements

A Christian without a God who hears them? That's not a place that one who truly serves Christ wants to find themselves.

God Christian Find Place Without

There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.

Love Music World Always Get Does

I'm fortunate to have success, but it was a long and challenging road, so I try to make that not be the case for other women.

Success Women Road Long Try Make

I had this contract to write songs for people when I was about 18. I don't think any of them were taken up; I was a complete failure at it! But I've kept doing it, writing little songs for myself.

Failure Myself People Writing Think

You couldn't play if you weren't tough. You'd get bullied. Everybody who comes through the Civitan Recreation Center has to be tough. It's what we breed.

Tough You Play Recreation Through

I love how New York as an idea is less a paradigm of manifest destiny and more a romance for the social orphans of the world. We live here to be among the towers and the crowds.

Love Live New York World Destiny

I always said, if I got a record deal, I'd want to record the best songs I could, whether I wrote them or not.

Best Said Want Always Got Deal

Relative to most people I know, I am comfortable just about anywhere. I went to 20 schools before the 8th grade because my father couldn't hold a job. We moved every six months. I had to adjust.

Father Job I Am People Know Adjust

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Thomas Carlyle