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W. H. Auden Quotes

It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Good Talent Direction Know See Nose

To have that kind of ovation, that happens very seldom for a lineman.

Kind Happens Seldom Very Ovation

Anyone who says, 'Books don't change anything,' or - more commonly - that crime fiction is the wrong genre for promoting social change - should take a closer look.

Change Look Wrong Social Change More

My father was a professor of folklore, and my mother was a teacher until she was married. I had a good relationship with them, and the only argument we had was when I went to university and wanted to go into the theater instead of studying to be a lawyer.

Good Father Mother Relationship Go

At the height of the Enron mania, the company's market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0.

Robert Kiyosaki

Value Height Company Dust Final

As for how do I respond to those who want to throw stones, well, I don't.

Want Respond Stones Well Throw Who

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.

Success Genius Common Sense More

I think to a certain extent in Bosnia and among the Hutus in Rwanda and also among the Tutsis in Rwanda who then took revenge on the Hutus, there is a sense of being swept up and a sense that the society in which they live has gone mad.

Live Society Revenge Think Mad Gone

Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.

Stephen Jay Gould

Life Opportunity Hope Science Lying

I was signed to MGM. I was in Vegas for sixteen weeks at the Sands Hotel.

Hotel Vegas Sixteen Sands Weeks MGM

All 'potential' means to me is that you haven't proved anything.

Me Potential You Anything Means

Tom Cruise's attorney said he is going to sue anyone who claims he is gay. In a related story, Ricky Martin's attorney has been hospitalized for exhaustion.

Story Gay Said Cruise Going Been

As Annie Proulx is to Wyoming, so is Jane Candia Coleman to Arizona.

Wyoming Arizona Annie Jane Coleman

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