William Empson Quotes

Waiting for the end, boys, waiting for the end.

William Empson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: September 27, 1906 - April 15, 1984

Topics

WaitingEnd

The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority.

John C. Calhoun

LifeDownSurrenderNothingSinking

We want people to know they shouldn't feel like social pariahs just because they want to dress differently or listen to rock n' roll.

Andy Biersack

DressPeopleFeelJust BecauseKnow

I'm actually a pretty clean-cut person.

Andie MacDowell

PersonPrettyActuallyClean-Cut

If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.

John Kruk

CityYouWallHeadBeatKansas

Health is the one thing we all have in common regardless of race, creed, or income. Everyone should participate in creating the solutions.

Matthew Heineman

HealthCreatingRaceEveryoneIncome

I think that is just a limitation of any questionnaire - that we apply a frame of reference or standard. It's a well-known finding in psychology that when people are total beginners at a skill, they tend to overrate their skill level. They don't know what they don't know. The more expert you are, the more critical you become.

Angela Duckworth

PeopleThinkFindingYouSkillKnow

What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.

John Podhoretz

SimpleSayingBecomeFailBigToo

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father during all those many days, and weeks and months when I didn't see my own father.

Stephen Sondheim

FatherMy OwnSeeDaysOwnMany

I did the commencement speech at UNH in 2006, and one of the biggest jokes was a 'Guts' joke.

Mike O'Malley

SpeechJokeJokesGutsDidBiggest

I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like.

Molly Sims

FoodSpeakLanguageKnowStrange

I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals.

Luke Evans

FirePeopleThinkGoHeroesHouses

Schlepping around from city to city is nothing I want to do.

Christine McVie

CityWantNothingAround

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