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Walter Pater Quotes

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

Walter Pater

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: critic
Nationality: english
Birth: August 4, 1839 - July 30, 1894

Topics

Age Culture Roads Together Up Move

'American Idol' has changed the face of television.

Jennifer Hudson

Face American Television Idol

Anything that endures over time sacrifices its ability to make an impression.

Robert Musil

Time Over Ability Anything Make

If I am through learning, I am through.

John Wooden

Learning I Am Through Am

When I was a kid, we lived in Italy, which isn't really known for figure skating. I think that's why I excelled so well. I spent a lot of my high school years training.

Meta Golding

Training School High School Think

Living in London is awesome.

Mesut Ozil

Living London Awesome

You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized.

Monique Coleman

You Touch Bend Over Get Split

It's funny because everybody has injuries, and different teams handle them differently.

Jason Kidd

Funny Injuries Handle Different Them

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

Jordan Peterson

Yourself City More Difficult Rule

When you're always onstage, you really have to focus on listening and reacting.

Jonathan Groff

Focus Listening You Always Really

If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out mysteries in a sort of poetic realm, and hoping that if a story is honest, if you're dragging the deep truth out of yourself, then something good and profound might come out of it.

Colum McCann

Good Truth Yourself Story Deep You

I worked for three years in a small IT firm in Chicago. I managed our client base, so I translated into human speak for our technicians. But our company was sold, and the atmosphere and the culture really changed, so I quit without having anything else lined up.

Allison Tolman

Culture Small Speak Three Quit

It would probably surprise people to know that I'm interested in wildlife. I read a lot of poetry, too.

Sean Bean

Poetry People Surprise Know Wildlife