Walter Savage Landor Quotes

Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess.

Walter Savage Landor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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A well-seasoned and properly cleaned wok will always have micro-pores in the metal that hold some oil or food particulate, etc. - that's a good thing.

Andrew Zimmern

GoodFoodWillOilAlwaysHold

I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the Tony Award.

Andrew Lloyd Webber

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As a result of the carbon-dioxide enrichment of the Earth's atmosphere, plants are now growing faster. Furthermore, global warming lengthens the growing season and increases net rainfall.

Robert Zubrin

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In the dressing room, I always put on my right shoe first. Same thing for my right wristband.

Mary Lou Retton

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I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie.

Mike Myers

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It's a beautiful thing to be involved with the Special Olympics.

Luis Fonsi

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The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

Logan Pearsall Smith

ArtNewMovementMustFuryVitality

Take a commonplace, clean it and polish it, light it so that it produces the same effect of youth and freshness and originality and spontaneity as it did originally, and you have done a poet's job. The rest is literature.

Jean Cocteau

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I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships with a super-duper star like Kobe Bryant. Those championship teams with Michael Jordan certainly had a great, great player.

Doug Collins

GreatWinThinkYouStarSeen

I've been fortunate. I get to write films. I get to write music in films. I get to play arenas wearing a wig.

Christopher Guest

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I'll run into somebody, and of all the movies I've done, they may say something about 'Back to the Future' or whatever, but then they make reference to 'Clue' very favorably.

Christopher Lloyd

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Whenever I go out, I have to have a jacket on. I prefer casual ones for a party and semi-formal ones for events.

Armaan Malik

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