Edward Dowden Quotes

For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment; in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.

Edward Dowden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: May 3, 1843 - April 4, 1913

Topics

PoetryExperimentHumourOwnPoet

I would like to be able to do a song with Ray Charles, before we both get too old.

Joe Cocker

SongOldGetWouldAbleLike

I write about characters that interest me. And I don't think of my books as being forms of entertainment.

Jhumpa Lahiri

MeThinkEntertainmentWriteBeing

Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

Johannes Tauler

PrayerThoughtsSayingBelieveYou

I don't like going for more than a year without doing theatre. I don't mind falling flat on my face so long as I feel I'm open to the possibility of something extraordinary happening.

Sophie Okonedo

MindTheatreFaceFeelDoingYear

As an actor, you need everything you can get to be truly scary and truly memorable.

Robert Englund

YouMemorableActorNeedEverything

I think technology has advanced so far now that there are some cameras on the market that give film a run for its money. It's all about flexibility in capturing images, and digital or film, it doesn't matter to me.

Roger Deakins

TechnologyMoneyMeThinkNowRun

It is important for me to personally visit Superfund sites to assess the progress being made.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

ProgressMeImportantBeingMade

Came to acting pretty late. It looked wonderful, but I guess I was intimidated by my father. I look a bit like him, and he was so much bigger than life and so great, it took me a bit longer than most people to have enough confidence in myself.

Miguel Ferrer

LifeFatherConfidenceGreatMyself

We're always skating to wherever the puck is going.

Lowell McAdam

SkatingAlwaysWhereverGoingPuck

Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls.

Lorde

GoodThinkYoungAnythingFlawless

Most simply, 'present shock' is the human response to living in a world that's always on real time and simultaneous. You know, in some ways it's the impact of living in a digital environment, and in other ways it's just really what happens when you stop leaning so forward to the millennium and you finally arrive there.

Douglas Rushkoff

TimeWorldForwardPresentImpact

When you're a full-time mum, you're constantly in that zone and doing breastfeeding and having a lot of boredom, too!

Davinia Taylor

DoingBoredomYouZoneConstantly

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