Walter Pater Quotes

With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.

Walter Pater

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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When I'm not working in a professional capacity, I'm writing, and when I'm at home, it's a way of having contact with people or communicating.

Jessie Cave

HomePeopleWritingProfessionalWay

On a pure entertainment level, if I'm going to choose to listen to a presidential candidate speak on a Saturday night, it's going to be Donald Trump over Bernie Sanders by a landslide!

Jerrod Carmichael

NightSpeakSaturdayChooseListen

Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John F. Kennedy

OpinionThoughtEnjoyComfortOften

A doctrine of class war seemed to provide a solution to the problem of poverty to people who know nothing about how wealth is created.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

WarPeopleProblemSolutionPoverty

I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.

Rod McKuen

CommunicationManWantTryOnlyGap

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

Russell Banks

BestWritingApprenticeshipWriter

Math and science were my favorite subjects besides theater.

Jason Earles

ScienceMathFavoriteTheaterWere

Republicans passed the Fourteenth Amendment, securing for blacks equal rights under the law, and the Fifteenth Amendment, giving blacks the right to vote, over the Democrats' opposition.

Dinesh D'Souza

LawGivingVoteRightAmendment

A lot of guys come out, and they do the exact same thing, are in the exact same mood, and have the exact same entrance every night, I really just make up a lot of crap as I go along.

Dean Ambrose

NightGoMoodSameOutUp

I never expected it, but I've gotten paid a lot to do what I love. There are no complaints.

Chuck Liddell

LoveNeverPaidExpectedComplaints

I get worked up over an 'idea' or the ethos of an idea. I follow dreams, take notes on travels, and engage in research often - if I need names, details, facts that enhance the project.

Anne Waldman

DreamsResearchFactsDetailsFollow

A lot of people call me gay because they don't see me with anyone.

Sharon Jones

PeopleMeGaySeeCallBecause

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