Walter Savage Landor Quotes

We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.

Walter Savage Landor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: January 30, 1775 - September 17, 1864

Topics

RealitySelf-LoveFancySufferOften

I'm very jealous of my daughter's education. She's been inspired by her teachers, and nobody inspired me as a teenager.

Jenny Eclair

EducationDaughterMeJealousNobody

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

Anish Kapoor

GreatArtGoNowOutGoing

Sometimes we feel like we're only interacting with what's already happening; we don't actually affect anything - sometimes I feel like that, anyway.

Shura

FeelSometimesAnythingAffectOnly

Making a film is beyond exciting. It's so exciting, it's exhausting.

Mike Birbiglia

BeyondFilmExcitingMaking

The 'beach read' has become such a ubiquitous concept in contemporary literature that we assume it has always been around. In fact, the term only emerged in the 1990s, usually in book trade publications such as 'Booklist' and 'Publisher's Weekly.'

Michelle Dean

BeachBookLiteratureBecomeAlways

I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing.

Mohsin Hamid

ArtMoneyPoliticsReligionWriting

I really do not like more than a week or two of down time.

Jason London

TimeWeekDownMoreTwoLike

The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

Doug Larson

PeopleBlameChoiceReasonThings

I don't follow other fashion blogs, but I do follow other fashionistas on Instagram. Many of them are my friends; it's really cool: they can inspire me, and they're also my friends. I also look for inspiration in the street; there are so many fashionable women walking around.

Chiara Ferragni

WomenMeCoolFashionInspireLook

The goal is to try and make the perfect song. Which of course will never happen.

Chris Martin

SongPerfectGoalWillTryNever

I believe in capitalism. I need to make a profit, but I would like to do it with ethics, dignity, morals. It's my dream.

Brunello Cucinelli

EthicsCapitalismBelieveMorals

I've always loved fantasy. I think it's a great way to look at issues that we have in our own lives with a little bit of the pressure off, you know.

Alice Englert

GreatThinkLovedPressureYouLook

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