Edwin Markham Quotes

Few cities have been more definitely impressed upon the imagination of the world than San Francisco, this gray-hilled city on the peninsula by the hospitable bay, where Saint Francis protects the ships as he protected the birds of Assisi.

Edwin Markham

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 23, 1852 - March 7, 1940

Topics

ImaginationCityBirdsWorldMore

I'm fascinated with what an audience will take away from an image.

Andrea Arnold

WillImageAudienceTakeAway

By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.

Michael Bergin

LifeSportsTimeMy LifeOldOver

Lance Armstrong has a 17th-century, 15-foot Spanish fresco of the crucifixion hanging on the wall of his Austin mansion. This doesn't mean - and some of you Armstrong acolytes might want to sit down for this - that Lance is Jesus.

Stephen Rodrick

YouDownWallWantMeanSit

My own perception of cops was that they came into your neighborhood, they roughed up people that you loved for no reason and took them away. As a child you saw that.

Sonja Sohn

ChildPeoplePerceptionLovedYou

If you don't think you want to go on a train and read the paper every day and work from nine to six at night, there was something about the uncertainty when I was younger which was very attractive.

Ron Silver

WorkDayNightUncertaintyThinkGo

For something to be profitable doesn't necessarily mean it's the best thing in the world for the director. You judge a movie by different standards - I've worked on comedies, and now I've worked on superhero movies, and the reviews are almost parenthetical in both of those genres.

Jon Favreau

BestWorldJudgeYouNowMovies

I wished I could go back to Atletico; I'm not going to lie.

Diego Costa

LieBackGoGoingCouldAtletico

Every person walking has some kind of talent that they can get on tape.

Dr. Dre

TalentWalkingPersonKindGetSome

If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong.

Christine Keeler

HistoryStoryWrongNowWillTell

I grew up in a house of forthright women.

Chris O'Dowd

WomenHouseUpGrewForthright

I love some films with very silent characters, people who don't speak, but I wouldn't be able to do that.

Arnaud Desplechin

LovePeopleSpeakSilentAbleWho

If I see an ending, I can work backward.

Arthur Miller

WorkEndingI CanSeeI See

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