A. E. Housman Quotes

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

A. E. Housman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: March 26, 1859 - April 30, 1936

Topics

LiveHouseBuildCheapDelusions

God is bigger than people think.

Jimmy Dean

GodPeopleThinkBiggerThan

The jellyfish doesn't actively move anywhere - it's just moved with the tides. Is that what man is? Man's just the jellyfish: stuff happens to you, and you get twisted in different directions.

Andrew Buchan

ManYouTwistedMoveGetDifferent

In the beginning, my equipment, I would rent them from teamster-types, really. I don't know where they got the cameras - I think from the TV stations. But I don't know if they asked the TV stations.

John Waters

BeginningThinkKnowRentWhereGot

There is no lie that a man will not believe; and there is no man who does not believe many lies; and there is no man who believes only lies.

John Sterling

LieManBelieveWillOnlyLies

The part in 'Taxi' was originally written for a guy named Phil Ryan, so they made it Phil Banta, and then they made it Tony Banta, which sounded a lot better anyway.

Tony Danza

BetterTaxiGuyMadePartAnyway

Any movie that gets made and ends up in a position where people are coming to talk about it, it's not a small thing.

Tom Cavanagh

PeopleSmallTalkComingUpWhere

You learn an incredible amount doing theatre, not just about to behave.

Michelle Dockery

TheatreLearnDoingYouBehaveJust

I think the power of Stieg Larsson's stories is that he has the guts to show the hidden spots in the side of Sweden. That gave us a push to say that for the first time. That they can't have with the American version.

Michael Nyqvist

PowerTimeThinkAmericanPushSay

We at Ferrari are a small, dynamic company, and we show what Italy can do.

Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

SmallCompanyFerrariDynamicShow

White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet.

Louis Farrakhan

PeoplePotentialWhiteHumans

I've learned over the years that there's a lot of things that work out pretty well that I don't love.

Lloyd Blankfein

WorkLoveOverYearsOutPretty

Just about every children's book in my local bookstore has an animal for its hero. But then, only a few feet away in the cookbook section, just about every cookbook includes recipes for cooking animals. Is there a more illuminating illustration of our paradoxical relationship with the nonhuman world?

Jonathan Safran Foer

RelationshipChildrenHeroCooking

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