Walter Pater Quotes

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us.

Walter Pater

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeLoveGreatSorrowMayUs

But, at the end of the day, we need to represent the taxpayers who have made enormous sacrifices. Many have lost their jobs. Many of them have seen their companies - they don't have a pension - they have seen their companies cut the match for their 401(k). They have seen their health care benefits be shredded.

John Kasich

HealthDayCareEnd Of The DayEnd

I looked long and carefully at the picture of a stag painted by Landseer - the style was good, and the brush was handled with fine effect; but he fails in copying Nature, without which the best work will be a failure.

John James Audubon

WorkNatureFailureGoodStyleBest

I used to teach kids when I was younger. When I was about 14 or 15 I started teaching children drama and something that I used to say to them was, 'Don't be afraid.' People would be afraid of forgetting their lines or something.

Stephen Moyer

ChildrenPeopleDramaSayTeach

I've lived my entire life in New York, and it informs everything.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

LifeNew YorkNewEverythingLived

To get pregnant, I have resorted to artificial insemination. I want to openly talk about it because this is an opportunity to show my gratitude to all those anonymous donors who help many women to meet, like me, the dream of their life.

Monica Cruz

LifeWomenOpportunityGratitudeMe

'Kane and Abel' is the best popular fiction of all time. As a kid, I wanted to be prime minister when I read 'First Among Equals.'

Louise Mensch

TimeBestFirstKidFictionPrime

All these old images of me floating across the screen, the terrible chasm of what you were and what you are. I know who I am, but these people who see me as I was then don't.

Diana Rigg

I AmPeopleMeYouKnowSee

But it was not possible to do this movie, in this matter of time, without a solid rehearsal period.

Debbie Allen

TimeMatterPossibleWithoutSolid

I should not have to prove my ethnicity to anyone. I know who I am.

Christina Aguilera

I AmKnowProveEthnicityWhoAm

I'm a bit of a lurker on Reddit.

Brie Larson

BitReddit

If Davis Cup was a little bit less or once every two years, I would be more inclined to play. But the way it is now, it is too much tennis for me.

Pete Sampras

MeToo MuchPlayNowWayTennis

Because of the way the record business has kind of stumbled and disintegrated, in a way, you're as likely to sell records at your merch table at your gigs as you are to sell them in a regular record outlet or even online.

Todd Rundgren

BusinessYouTableKindWaySell

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