Tennysonianness Quotes

#1. Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say.

Ezra Pound

#2. It is not a character fault or weakness or seeking attention. It is somebody who is ill.

Jerry Reed

#3. I try to stay with it and I try to stay in contact with comedians and just keep comedians in my life 'cause comedians are their own species. If you get away from them, especially as a comedian, I think it's dangerous.

Chris Rock

#4. The patient is in intensive care but still alive.

Javier Perez De Cuellar

#5. We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.

John F. Kennedy

#6. I've been gearing up for this future of writing a lot of new music by digging into my favorite old stuff, and twisting it around and highlighting the things I really love.

Caroline Shaw

#7. I stepped out of the bathroom in a black dress and hot pink heels.
America whistled. "Hot damn, Mama!"
I smiled in appreciation, and Travis held out his hand. "Nice legs."
"Did I mention that it's a magic razor?"
"I don't think it's the razor," he smiled, pulling me out the door.

Jamie McGuire

#8. My father went south once, to answer the summons of a king. He never came home again.

George R R Martin

#9. If I don't get enough sleep, my brain gets fatigued, and the voice suffers. If I'm doing some retail work and trying to read and record legal copy, I start sounding like I had a few too many the night before.

Roger Craig Smith

#10. Plants die off when their roots have no water to sustain them. May your tears feed the roots of love in your heart and bring healing to your soul. May God grant you the strength to move on, knowing there's so much ahead of you.

Kemi Sogunle

#11. I think that people who want to change this planet have to seriously understand that as human beings we have to work to be good.

Assata Shakur

#12. More than half a century has passed, and yet each spring, when I wander into the primrose wood, I see the pale yellow blooms and smell their sweetest scent - for a moment I am seven years old again and wandering in that fragrant wood.

Gertrude Jekyll

#13. Perhaps there's given up being magic because people didn't believe in it any more.

E. Nesbit

#14. God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.

Lynn Redgrave

#15. Research cannot be forced very much. There is always danger of too much foliage and too little fruit.

Theobald Smith