Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 21, 1772 - July 25, 1834

Topics

ImaginationLanguageMoreNecessary

I have done a lot of theater.

Jerry Hall

DoneTheaterLot

To me, creative work is labor, like any other kind of labor. It's got value, and it takes your time, and it's useful to people, depending.

John Darnielle

WorkTimeCreativeValuePeopleMe

I love books, and all the best ones are people analysing their own emotions. You can learn from that.

John Lydon

LoveBestPeopleLearnYouEmotions

Columbus was above all an explorer, and his historic achievements opened the Americas to trade and the eventual English settlements, settlements which grew into the most successful bastion of freedom and prosperity in human history, the United States of America.

Tom Tancredo

FreedomHistoryAmericaProsperity

I don't think there is a hidden purpose to the universe that you have to puzzle out.

Robert Fulghum

PurposePuzzleThinkUniverseYou

If you believe that weight loss requires self-deprivation, I'm going to teach you otherwise.

Robert Atkins

BelieveLossYouTeachWeight Loss

Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.

Ritchie Blackmore

MeHairBetterMakeMusician

I had to audition for the part of Jnior, and I wanted the role terribly because I knew it was a great character. This guy is a wonderful, funny, mean old guy.

Dominic Chianese

FunnyCharacterGreatMeanOldRole

I have a lot of favorite songs. One of them is Lyle Lovett's version of 'If I Needed You.'

Deborah K. Ross

YouFavoriteSongsVersionNeeded

I grew up less than a mile from folks that lived in shacks with dirt floors. I certainly know that there are needs in this country. Not too far from your house, if you look around, people need to be helped.

Chris Stapleton

PeopleYouLookHouseCountryKnow

I respect people who feel things passionately. I do. But when someone is a judge, that is not what they should bring to the bench. It is not really passion, except in rare instances, that serves the bench well. It is, rather, an ability to understand the law and follow it.

Chuck Schumer

PassionRespectPeopleLawJudge

Gen. Tommy Franks told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq - a war more than a year away.

Bob Graham

WarMeYearMoreAfghanistanBeing

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