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Edwin Morgan Quotes

I have friends who are very pessimistic. They say you can't possibly be an optimist nowadays. But I think, taking the longer view, you can still be as optimistic as you want.

Edwin Morgan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: scottish
Birth: April 27, 1920 - August 27, 2010

Topics

Think View Friends You Say Want

My urge at Christmas time or Hanukkah-time or Kwanzaa-time is that people go to bookstores: that they walk around bookstores and look at the shelves. Go to look for authors that they've loved in the past and see what else those authors have written.

Michael Dirda

Time Walk Past People Loved Look

If I want to make a product that is appealing to consumers, like a piece of clothing or a video game, that's fad driven. Some companies do it, and I don't know how they do it, but it's generally a bad place to invest.

Steve Jurvetson

Game Bad Place Know Want Product

We're in this period where we're getting good data rates. I would say we're getting data rates that are like the data rates we got when we launched RealAudio in 1995.

Rob Glaser

Good Data Say Where Got Would

I'd love to go back to Europe in the '20s and '30s, for the beginning of the Psychoanalytic Movement, and Freud and Jung, and all that was going on with discoveries in quantum physics. The whole nature of reality was changing and being challenged.

Michael Sheen

Nature Love Beginning Reality Back

The real power of Web is the ability of the medium to have a one-to-one relationship with the audience.

Jay Penske

Relationship Power Real Ability Web

Steve Laurence is the only person that was on the first 'Tonight Show,' right to the end. He was a little high school boy, 14 years old.

Jayne Meadows

School High School End Person Boy

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

Jean Cocteau

Silence Going Faster Moves Backward

Many foreigners imagine that Latin American cuisine is spicy, but Chilean food, on the whole, is extremely bland: salt, vinegar, mayonnaise, and more salt are the four basic condiments. Black pepper is conspicuously absent, and not only from the food - it is also rarely available even on request.

Jonathan Franklin

Food Black American Salt More Spicy

I have a TV Soap Boomerang award, and I always start my year with the Australian Open tennis! Tennis, soccer, you name it.

Doug Davidson

Start Name Award Year You Soccer

You appreciate just being able to work because there are so many actors that aren't. You have to appreciate every single job just the same.

Chris Zylka

Work Job Appreciate You Same Single

I think, Queen Victoria's diaries, I think you can get them if you go to the British Library.

Claire Foy

Queen Library Think You Go British

Doing a house is so much harder than doing a skyscraper.

Philip Johnson

Doing House Skyscraper Than Much