Ian Hamilton Finlay Quotes

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.

Ian Hamilton Finlay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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We do need an attitude of leadership in our government which demonstrates faith in major population centres outside of Perth.

Andrew Forrest

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I think the international community should be ashamed that they haven't done more for the Yazidis.

Amal Clooney

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An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

Stephen Covey

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I go to school the youth to learn the future.

Robert Frost

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I loved Elijah Muhammad with a love that I can't adequately describe.

Louis Farrakhan

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Ever since I was a little kid, I would always rap. I just loved it. But when I really got into it seriously was when I saw 'Kill Bill.'

Logic

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It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.

Jon Meacham

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I am not interesting in making money. I go to the most expensive restaurant in Boston to have dinner. It is where billionaires come to eat. Even if I become richer, I will still have to go there to eat. After some time, money doesn't make a difference.

Pranav Mistry

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Sure, our three-pound brains might be inadequate to understand the universe. But perhaps they're just good enough to build something that can.

Seth Shostak

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We started with that, basically to help kids, and then we created a pole vault school, which is part of the club and exists to this day. The club and school exist.

Sergei Bubka

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Not to get overly psychological about this, but it's probably why I became an actress in the first place: for that kind of freedom and refuge, as well as for the fact that I just love acting so much.

Marisa Tomei

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As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.

Lester B. Pearson

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