Evensong Quotes

#1. Be the day never so long, Evermore at last they ring to evensong.

John Heywood

#2. I suppose I'm a cultural Anglican, and I see evensong in a country church through much the same eyes as I see a village cricket match on the village green. I have a certain love for it.

Richard Dawkins

#3. I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.

Barbara Pym

#4. He loved three things alone:
White peacocks, evensong,
old maps of America.
He hated children crying,
and raspberry jam with his tea,
and womanish hysteria.
...And then he married me.


1911

Anna Akhmatova

#5. Three things in this world he loved:

Evensong, white peacocks
And worn maps of America.

He didn't like crying children,
Tea with raspberry jam
Or hysterical women.

And I was his wife.

Anna Akhmatova

#6. Buggery was invented to fill that awkward hour between evensong and cocktails.

Maurice Bowra

#7. No one wanted to own Bloody Sunday.

James Nesbitt

#8. I grew up going to punk shows, that kind of thing - I don't wanna make pop punk! - but I like the idea of people going totally crazy and it being really intimate, loud and super-aggressive, but combining that with pop music.

Grimes

#9. The thing you can always rely on, your core person, comes from your family's attention and love.

Martin Short

#10. I did a movie called 'The Savages' with Laura Linney and Phillip Seymour Hoffman, where I played a nurse, and it showed me in a different role from what I played on 'The Wire.' It showed my range as an actor.

Gbenga Akinnagbe

#11. You've got everything except one thing: madness! A man needs a little madness, or else ...

Anthony Quinn

#12. Combining music, theater and comedy is a new and broader form of expression. In certain combinations you can make people laugh one moment, cry the next, and then be astounded by the beauty of the music.

Aleksey Igudesman

#13. At least it was love we were showing initially, and not hatred and violence like you did in the end.

Sarah Swainson

#14. If you deny the existence of a higher being, you've never been to rehab

Josh Stern