Lascelles Abercrombie Quotes

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

Lascelles Abercrombie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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There's something that's really fun about the challenge of making the mundane funny, too, I think.

Jim Gaffigan

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I'd see child actors and I'd get so jealous, because they're just completely wide open.

Joaquin Phoenix

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It's important to remember that Bush Derangement Syndrome on the left - comparing him to Hitler, calling him a terrorist and a tyrant - preceded Obama Derangement Syndrome on the right.

John Avlon

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Tester voted for President Obama's nominations of Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan but opposed President Trump's nomination of Neil Gorsuch. That's not representing our Montana values.

Matt Rosendale

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A lot of times, people assume that I write all the songs: that I arrange them and I stick Kevin up there as kind of a puppet or something. It's absolutely not that way. In fact, he writes probably 60 percent of the songs, and I write probably 40 percent.

Michael Bacon

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I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

Steve Earle

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Being eternally known as Bond has no downside.

Roger Moore

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International donors, our friends, should demand results; impose results. The fact of giving money is not helping if you give money to honest people and there is no structure to manage that money. It is not helping.

Michel Martelly

MoneyPeopleGivingFriendsYou

I get a lot of e-mail messages from people who say thanks for giving them a place to vent, an outlet to say what they can't say in real life with friends and work colleagues - things that they know are wrong, but they still want to say. Is it right? No, of course not. People say some disgusting, vile things.

Christopher Poole

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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

William Samuel Johnson

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He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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We women know how to take care of everybody so well. But the one person we have written out of the equation is us.

Suze Orman

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