W. H. Auden Quotes

When I am in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a drawing room full of dukes.

W. H. Auden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 21, 1907 - September 29, 1973

Topics

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Parliamentarian rules, the rules of the House, how you get bills referred, really the nuts and bolts that most members don't ever want to know because it's a lot of work. But that's what really makes you successful.

Jimmy Gomez

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What's happened at 85 is I've lost my appetite. I used to be a little hog when I was young. But now I really don't seem to need it.

Jerry Lewis

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I'm looking forward to being a mom and a wife and a business owner.

Melanie Roach

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I do not think that a museum needs to engage with pop culture in order to make itself interesting to museumgoers. Museums are already interesting and engaging with pop culture for its own sake is just a quick way to seem and become dated.

John Hodgman

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Somehow, someway, you get kind of labeled this guy who was in a Freddie Prinze Jr. movie too many. And Freddie Prinze Jr. - it's not his fault, either - it's just these are the things that happen. I'm not a George Clooney; I don't have a ton of opportunities.

Matthew Lillard

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I was never tortured over whether I wanted to become an actor. There was never another option in my mind.

Stephanie Courtney

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The landscape of Texas is in all my work. It's that light; it's that sky.

Robert Wilson

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When a work lifts your spirits and inspires bold and noble thoughts in you, do not look for any other standard to judge by: the work is good, the product of a master craftsman.

Jean de la Bruyere

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It's very important for a brand to have an identity through the years, but it's very important as well to evolve because times change so fast.

Donatella Versace

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I don't think I'm a good host. I'm not a good host. I'm terrible at hosting. That's my problem.

Chelsea Handler

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As a woman, I don't feel like I have a responsibility to create better female characters. I feel like I have a responsibility to create good characters. Because the truth is, those kinds of things ghettoize us even more as writers.

Courtney A. Kemp

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When I started out in comedy, it was common knowledge that it took about 10 years to get good. And that was okay because it took you about 9 years to get on television.

Chris Rock

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