Walter Pater Quotes

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.

Walter Pater

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

ExperienceActionRealitySightOut

It is hard to cement any relations with any country based on promises that may not be deliverable.

Jim Leach

PromisesCountryHardMayCement

Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were growing up.

Jim Lee

CreativeGrowing UpReadingLongUp

Aldo is a hell of a champion.

Max Holloway

ChampionHell

Indian women love to dress up like princesses. In India, people still go to the market to buy fabrics, garments are made-to-order, and friends come with you to the fittings.

Sonam Kapoor

LoveWomenDressPeopleFriendsYou

Midfielders, on average, get somewhere between half a second and a second to think before they have to move the ball on. For strikers, however, it is significantly less: between 0.1 and 0.2 of a second before a defender is on them.

Robin Van Persie

ThinkBallAverageSomewhereHalf

Larry King and his producers ought to go back to school and learn what 'fair and balanced' really means.

Mike Gallagher

SchoolKingLearnBackGoFair

I've definitely become much more aware of physical stunts.

Lucy Liu

BecomeMoreAwarePhysicalStunts

Nowadays it seems as though people sit down to write what they know is going to be a trilogy.

Lois Lowry

PeopleDownKnowWriteSitGoing

When I was growing up, I always thought my hair was messy.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Growing UpHairThoughtGrowingUp

Getting to Valle Nevado is half the fun. A serpentine road from Santiago wriggles up the spine of Andean peak for an hour, then traverses a valley and finally up again. The hotel is perched on a rugged mountain crag at 3,000m: no other sign of human development is visible from this spot, which is close to the Argentinean border.

Jonathan Franklin

MountainFunRoadBorderHotelUp

I'm not happy all the time, and I wouldn't want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

Dolly Parton

GoodTimeHappyMeFindPerson

I think the only time I doubted myself was my senior year in high school. I was not offered a Division I scholarship. I remember a scout from Ohio State coming in and looking at my film. He was all excited to meet me. Then he met me and I was 5'10" and he said that I was not a Division I quarterback.

Doug Flutie

TimeMyselfSchoolMeLookingThink

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