Ian Hamilton Finlay Quotes

My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: October 28, 1925 - March 27, 2006

Topics

LawWorldGardenPositionStatus

Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country.

Jim Ramstad

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Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top.

John Lydon

TopUpGoingMuchDenseObama

And then I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to go to China in 1980, which was quite early.

John Pomfret

OpportunityEnoughEarlyGoLucky

I love Christy Turlington in the '80s and '90s. Classic.

Sonoya Mizuno

LoveClassicI LoveChristy

As a part of preparing those lawsuits, learning about those lawsuits, I learned about the various nuclear issues in parts of the nuclear production process I guess you'd say.

Tom Udall

LearningProcessYouSayProduction

Juxtaposition is interesting to me.

Luke Macfarlane

MeInterestingJuxtaposition

Individual and corporate support is vital to building on London's leadership in the arts, and I hope others will join me in wanting to build on the National's role at the heart of modern theatre and sustaining it long into the future.

Lloyd Dorfman

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As a listener, we're looking for that person who kind of excites the molecules within us - who knows how to tell the story that resonates deeply to our core and almost prompts us into action. Fats Waller has been that person for decades. When people need a lift, sometimes they go to him. I know I do.

Jason Moran

PeopleLookingActionStoryPerson

In my era, where I'm from, I only had Donald Whiteside. He's from Englewood and he's the only one that came out of Englewood. Other than him, I really didn't have anyone else to look up to that was from my area. So in seeing him, I never gave up hope, just kept playing and then I realized that I might have a future in basketball.

Derrick Rose

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I sense from people that they get frustrated with me for not being out and about. But I guess I'm a shy boy.

Christopher Lloyd

PeopleMeBoyShyOutGet

I've always thought, and it gets tested at times, that I have a great faith in the fundamental goodness of human beings.

Bob Brown

FaithGreatThoughtGoodnessHuman

I look upon meself as... You take a band that's made up of arms, legs, bodies... I happen to be the piece that talks. And does all that area of it, you know? I'm also very easy to recognize; the darkie in the middle jumping around with the guitar, you know. Dat boy's got rhydm!!!

Phil Lynott

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