Chatterton Quotes

#1. John Chatterton is the kind of person who always seems to be up to some kind of incredible adventure.

Robert Kurson

#2. That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

Horace Walpole

#3. For my new book 'Pirate Hunters', I follow John Chatterton and John Mattera, two world-class scuba divers, who teach themselves to think and act as pirates while searching for what would be only the second pirate ship ever found and positively identified.

Robert Kurson

#4. How shall we celebrate the day,When God appeared in mortal clay,The mark of worldly scorn;When the Archangel's heavenly Lays,Attempted the Redeemer's Praise,And hail'd Salvation's Morn!

Thomas Chatterton

#5. The elevator shaft was a kind of heat sink. Hot food was cold by the time it arrived. Cold food got colder. No one knew what would happen to ice cream, but it would probably involve some rewriting of the laws of thermodynamics.

Terry Pratchett

#6. Faygne woulde I curse thee further, botte mie tyngue
Denies mie harte the favoure soe toe doe.

Thomas Chatterton

#7. When I grew up in Pittsburgh in my parents' restaurant, I was almost like a country bumpkin.

Ming-Na Wen

#8. And, I mean, I think poetry does need to be met to some extent, especially, I guess, 19th century poetry, and for me, it's just been so worth the effort. It's like I'm planting a garden in my head.

Jane Campion

#9. There is a time for all things - except marriage, my dear.

Thomas Chatterton

#10. Haste to thie kiste, thie onlie dortoure bedde.Cale, as the claie whiche will gre on thie hedde,Is Charitie and Love aminge highe elves;Knightis and Barons live for pleasure and themselves.

Thomas Chatterton

#11. I did not want to avoid service. I did realize reservists could be called up, and that it was something that I wanted to do.

Richard Blumenthal

#12. If you think safety is expensive, try pricing an accident, as the sign says.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#13. Of all sorts of flattery, that which comes from a solemn character and stands before a sermon is the worst-complexioned. Such commendation is a satire upon the author, makes the text look mercenary, and disables the discourse from doing service.

Jeremy Collier

#14. Almighty Framer of the Skies!O let our pure devotion rise,Like Incense in thy Sight!Wrapt in impenetrable Shade,The Texture of our Souls were made,Till thy Command gave Light.

Thomas Chatterton

#15. I think it's more interesting to play a place where no one really knows you, but I think touring is also great.

Theophilus London

#16. Happy (if mortals can be) is the man,Who, not by priest but Reason, rules his span:Reason, to its possessor a sure guide,Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

Thomas Chatterton

#17. Chances don't approach you,
it's you who approach chances.

Toba Beta

#18. If you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with 'secondly'.

Mourid Barghouti

#19. [A] military force was collected in Europe, formidable by their arms and numbers, if the generals had understood the science of command, and the soldiers the duty of obedience.

Edward Gibbon

#20. The Hebrew scriptures say it's okay to enslave anybody except your fellow Jews. It says you should enslave only your neighbors. I say to people that means Mexicans and Canadians are a bit at risk if we want to be literal about the Bible.

John Shelby Spong

#21. I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.

Ella R. Bloor

#22. I've been asked repeatedly what the 'key' to acting is, and as far as I'm concerned, the main thing is to keep the audience awake.

Maureen Stapleton

#23. O, Winter! Put away thy snowy pride;
O, Spring! Neglect the cowslip and the bell;
O, Summer! Throw thy pears and plums aside;
O, Autumn! Bid the grape with poison swell.

Thomas Chatterton

#24. Every time I think I'm about to seize the moment, it drifts back into the shadows, just beyond my reach.

Paula Hawkins

#25. I was very shy - I didn't speak to anyone outside of my family until the fourth grade.

Margaret Stohl