Lascelles Abercrombie Quotes

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 9, 1881 - October 27, 1938

Topics

BeautyPoetryImportantAchieving

Led Zeppelin isn't done yet, quite clearly, because every year since 1968 there's been new fans.

Jimmy Page

YearNewDoneClearlyFansBeen

In the end, I don't think you can find soul. Soul finds you.

Joe Cocker

SoulThinkEndYouFindIn The End

The world of spying is my genre. My struggle is to demystify, to de-romanticise the spook world, but at the same time harness it as a good story.

John le Carre

GoodTimeStruggleWorldStorySame

Social progress is a big thing for me. Although science fiction is traditionally concerned with the hard sciences, which is chemistry, physics, and, some might argue, biology, my father was and still is a social scientist at the University of Toronto.

Robert J. Sawyer

FatherScienceProgressMePhysics

We see Lyft as not just an app, but a movement of people coming together in cities and having conversations about things that matter. You're around some of the most interesting people in the world, and you don't talk to them. More and more people are craving in-person interactions.

John Zimmer

TogetherPeopleWorldInteresting

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

Ambrose Bierce

PoliticsPeopleAmericanPerson

Like their predecessors, the Presidents of today just throw up their hands.

Stephen Ambrose

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If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

Steven Wright

ThinkYouNobodyTryNobody Cares

Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.'

Louise Leakey

ChangeThinkYouWonderStopAdapt

I am my favourite villain!

Juhi Chawla

I AmVillainFavouriteAm

You can't be sensitive, because you're going to get criticized. I don't care who you are, you're going to get criticized.

Derek Jeter

CareYouGoingGetWhoSensitive

My friends joke I'm a 90-year-old stuck in a young man's body.

Douglas Booth

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