Richard Jefferies Quotes

Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a pleasure or a real profit to him who has to labour for it. Truth - you die in the pursuit, and the sea beats the beach as it did a thousand years ago. The stolid are alone happy.

Richard Jefferies

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: November 6, 1848 - August 14, 1887

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I was raised in a strict Southern household in Lexington, South Carolina, and I remember sneaking off to watch 'Pet Cemetery' as a kid. After seeing those animals reincarnate, I screamed and couldn't sleep for weeks, but watched it again and again.

Jessica Stroup

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I always chose the byline.

Amy Chozick

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The rappers that become legendary, they're the ones you wanna be.

Stefflon Don

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On Sundays, we would travel to the town and watch English movies. This way, we must have ended up watching some 1,000 movies during college.

Shiv Nadar

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It's hard to let new stuff in. And whether that admits a weakness, I don't know.

Martin Scorsese

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Every reign must submit to a greater reign.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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When I was a teenager, I worked at the Gap for a summer folding shirts. That was pretty mindless and soul-sucking.

Constance Wu

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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T. Washington

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I saw an amazing film when I was 16 called 'Slam'. It's about a spoken-word poet. Saul Williams is in it.

Boyd Holbrook

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If I wasn't an actress, I'd like to cook. I'm pretty obsessed by it. Rome was great in that sense, going to amazing cookery bookshops. No wonder their food is good because the quality and wide range of their produce is so good. It's not fair, really.

Polly Walker

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When I was five or six, I started dressing up like Davy Crockett.

Phil Collins

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There is nothing that you can't overcome. So it's never too late for happiness.

Pepa

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