Dannie Abse Quotes

#1. Movie stars need to retain some of that mystique if you are a big movie star.

Eli Roth

#2. At my age, only naivete still manages to scandalize me sometimes.

Amin Maalouf

#3. I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. a

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#4. You have a beautiful classy mind
but I find you physically unattractive

Dannie Abse

#5. Death was in his eyes and hell would follow.

Quinn Loftis

#6. Are all men in disguise except those crying?

Dannie Abse

#7. COLBIE: Lies are for the weak....Don't be a pussy even if you have one.

Bijou Hunter

#8. I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour; And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike, In limbs that fester are not springlike.

Dannie Abse

#9. Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#10. The theme of Death is to Poetry what Mistaken Identity is to Drama.

Dannie Abse

#11. There won't be any revolution in America ... The people are all too clean. They spend all their time changing shirts and washing themselves. You can't feel fierce and revolutionary in a bathroom.

Eric Linklater

#12. I hope to go into a poem sober and come out a little drunk. And if I do then that's a real poem.

Dannie Abse

#13. Whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.

Lionel Shriver

#14. I'm scared of everything except you.

Egba Terry

#15. You're beautiful, too. I mean, you're hot," I blurted out. "But I always knew you would be." my eyes widened as I realize what just streamed out of my mouth, and his grin to turn into a smile. "Oh my God, I did not just say ... any of that out loud."
"you did"
"Ugh.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#16. Leave my soul alone, leave my soul alone

Dannie Abse

#17. I read a lot of fantasy and grew up on 'Star Wars' and 'Star Trek.' I loved going to Middle Earth. 'Dungeons & Dragons' was a huge influence.

Tony DiTerlizzi

#18. Memories are as infinite as the horizon.

David Arnold

#19. Praying is another way of singing.You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.

Dannie Abse

#20. I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

Julia Ward Howe