Richard Blackmore Quotes

The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.

Richard Blackmore

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: January 22, 1654 - October 9, 1729

Topics

HomeFlowersSpeedSummerNever

It's even more of a torture not to work than to work.

Maurizio Cattelan

WorkMoreTortureEvenThan

I still love hockey. It's just I'm at a different stage of my life and I think I'm just ready to grow in other ways outside of just being a hockey player.

Angela Ruggiero

LifeLoveHockeyThinkGrowMy Life

Don't get me wrong, there are sometimes if I go and see a really funny comedy, that I wished I had smoked a joint. I'll be honest with you. That's the truth.

Stephen Baldwin

FunnyTruthMeComedyYouWrong

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

Robert Caro

WorkWritingLongLateQuitRealize

In corn, I think I've found the key to the American food chain. If you look at a fast-food meal, a McDonald's meal, virtually all the carbon in it - and what we eat is mostly carbon - comes from corn.

Michael Pollan

FoodThinkKeyAmericanYouLook

I was a hunter and fisherman, and many a time I have slipped out into the woods and prairies at 4 a.m. and brought home plenty of game, or have gone in a canoe to the cove and brought back a good supply of fresh fish.

Jay Cooke

GoodHomeTimeGameWoodsFish

I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.

Diane von Furstenberg

GirlWomanYoungNeverAlwaysEven

Mrs. Miniver was an ordinary middle-class English housewife, a character created by Jan Struther when she was commissioned by the 'Times of London' to write a weekly 'cheer-up' article in 1937.

Alistair Horne

CharacterLondonWriteSheWeekly

Cheerios bring back memories. I actually don't think I ate them much as a kid, though; maybe it's some sort of Jungian memory, I don't know. But they have so much sugar, it's great.

Penn Jillette

MemoriesGreatMemoryThinkBack

They tried to discredit me. I used to tell them, There's many wonderful people out there who can't have children, who would want to have these children.

Norma McCorvey

ChildrenPeopleMeWantOutTell

Not a few other very eminent and scholarly men made the same request, urging that I should no longer through fear refuse to give out my work for the common benefit of students of Mathematics.

Nicolaus Copernicus

WorkFearMathematicsMenSameOut

I love countermelodies, I love hooks and melodies that stick in your head. If I could put 20 melodies in a song and they would all work together, I would.

Mark Foster

WorkLoveTogetherSongHeadStick

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