Edna St. Vincent Millay Quotes

I went to Boston fully expecting to be arrested - arrested by a polizia created by a government that my ancestors rebelled to establish.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 22, 1892 - October 19, 1950

Topics

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Sometimes you meet characters at certain points in your life and have a connection with them.

Jessie Buckley

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I love when people talk trash.

Joel Embiid

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Comics are cool. I read 'Batman' and 'Spawn'.

Andrew Lawrence

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The great thing about science fiction is that it transcends national boundaries.

Robert J. Sawyer

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It's childish, but it still gives me great pleasure to see high-res pictures everyone told me would be impossible.

Stefan Hell

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It was never an option to not succeed.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

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You can hear the Celtic heartbeat all over Europe and America, from Bing Crosby to Jack White, from the Smiths to My Bloody Valentine, from House of Pain to Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.

Rob Sheffield

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At 16, I got housing benefit, and I had my own flat in an old woman's house. I was the only 16-year-old I knew living alone.

Roisin Murphy

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During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth - is set by their structure, on scales far smaller even than a microscope can see. Everything on Earth is made of atoms, which are, especially in living things, combined together in intricate molecular assemblages.

Martin Rees

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It's especially important since September 11 for people to be trained for the unexpected. We want to try to make sure people are safe.

Michael Malone

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Eighty percent of the problems that beset unification immediately disappeared when the President signed the bill increasing the authority and the responsibility of the Secretary of Defense.

Louis A. Johnson

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My marriage is far from perfect. We're not hand-holdy and soft. We are snippy and bickery. We sleep in separate beds because we have no tolerance of each other's night-time idiosyncrasies.

Lisa Jewell

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