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James Gates Percival Quotes

The world is full of poetry. The air is living with its spirit; and the waves dance to the music of its melodies, and sparkle in its brightness.

James Gates Percival

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: September 15, 1795 - May 2, 1856

Topics

Music Dance Poetry World Sparkle

I first came to Glasgow with no money and slept in a workman's hut on a building site.

Money Building First Hut Slept Came

I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

Good Father Sports Golf New Up

Is it government's job to make up for someone's mistakes?

Job Mistakes Government Someone Up

The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.

World Data Now See Consumers Ways

There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.

Life Change Choice Three Principles

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

Life Beauty Children Eye Grow Scars

I still insist that American performers are the best performers in the world.

Best World American Still Performers

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations.

Rosemary Clooney

People Expectations Living Trapped

With 'Nighty Night' series one, Oprah Winfrey's channel took it on, so she must have liked it.

Night She Must Liked Took Channel

Rappers are the white authors of our generation. They know me, my language, my codes, my family, my block.

Family Me Language Generation White

A great book seeks to explain causality, not correlation. It works to point out the circumstances in which it works, and where it doesn't. And in so doing, it is broadly applicable.

Clayton M. Christensen

Great Book Doing Circumstances Out

Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.

Fear Peace Death Me Enough Feeling

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