W. H. Auden Quotes

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

W. H. Auden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkManPeopleRichThinkAmerica

In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double within the next decade. Medicare is growing by 9% annually, and Medicaid by 8% annually.

Jim Ryun

SecurityGrowingWithinEntitlement

It's a really nice way to cut your teeth, doing live shows. It's like going to the gym because you do have to think fast. You are constantly under the threat of people not laughing. Instead of getting hit, people could just not laugh, so you really are trying to mine quickly for the funniest thing you could say in that moment.

Jessica Williams

LiveMomentPeopleThinkLaughYou

I never have, but I would love to pick R. Kelly's brain.

Mayer Hawthorne

LoveBrainNeverWouldPickKelly

I fell in love with jazz when I was 12 years old from listening to Duke Ellington and hearing a lot of jazz in New York on the radio.

Steve Lacy

LoveNew YorkListeningNewJazz

There is no greater evil than anarchy.

Sophocles

EvilAnarchyGreaterThan

I took vocal lessons all through my childhood and still do. I was classically trained.

Sofia Carson

ChildhoodThroughStillLessonsTook

I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

Miguel de Cervantes

ConversationWrongSayRightForever

One of the things that struck me about the 1870s, which we still haven't nearly addressed, is what to do about the male-female divide. One of the forbidden topics is when men own up to the omnivorousness of their sexual interest and how to square that with being in love with an individual woman.

Michel Faber

LoveMenWomanMeBeing In LoveOwn

The Internet is about giving the consumer exactly what they want, whether there's an audience of one or 1,000 or 10,000, and then figuring out how to make money on it later.

Jason Calacanis

MoneyInternetGivingWantOutHow

When it comes to chemistry with actors, I always feel chemistry is not something that comes and goes. You either have it or you don't.

Jonathan Jackson

FeelYouChemistryAlwaysSomething

Eight years of work can be copied in six months. It wasn't inevitable that it was going to work. A stolen design is stolen time.

Jonathan Ive

WorkTimeDesignInevitableYears

Nothing is more gratifying as a Christian believer than being able to thread my faith and love for Jesus into my music.

Chynna Phillips

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