Quotes by Long Ago I learned long ago to accept the fact that not everything I create will see the light of day. Joseph Barbera long-ago light facts The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism, but February.... Spring is too far away to comfort even by anticipation, and winter long ago lost the charm of novelty. This is the very three a.m. of the calendar. Joseph Wood Krutch long-ago winter spring I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice. Joyce Carol Oates long-ago exciting long Long ago I'd said that I am "fascinated by the phantasmagoria of human personality" - this is perhaps even truer now than years ago. Joyce Carol Oates long-ago personality years Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store. Joyce Meyer long-ago hurt motivational I wouldn't know how to fool a man any more. My deceiving days seem so long ago. Julie Burchill long-ago fool men Already long ago, from when we sold our vote to no man, the People have abdicated our duties; for the People who once upon a time handed out military command, high civil office, legions — everything, now restrains itself and anxiously hopes for just two things: bread and circuses. Juvenal long-ago military men Man, some modern philosophers tell us, is alienated from his world: he is a stranger and afraid in a world he never made. Perhaps he is; yet so are animals, and even plants. They too were born, long ago, into a physico-chemical world, a world they never made. Karl Popper long-ago animal men I saw Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, which I thought was a masterpiece. Not that long ago, I listened to Blackstar by David Bowie and thought that was a masterpiece. Those are two incredibly talented people who've left their mark with us. Kate Bush long-ago two people Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work. Karl Marx long-ago gone dog I realised long ago that skirts are hopeless. Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.' Katharine Hepburn long-ago fashion men I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary of the grave unnaturalness involved in any attempt to exert too much control over essentially uncontrollable forces. There will always be propelling, disturbing elements, and they will be there until, as Lowell put it, the watch is taken from the wrist. Kay Redfield Jamison long-ago storm taken As I say, I have never in all these years thought of the matter in quite this way; but then it is perhaps in the nature of coming away on a trip such as this that one is prompted towards such surprising new perspectives on topics one imagined one had long ago thought throughly. Kazuo Ishiguro long-ago perspective years I mean, in the foreword to Impro in Denmark is by Søren Iversen, who I taught long ago, he was a Danish director, after he left. He said he'd read about [Eugeny] Vakhtangov. I'm a fan of his. When he heard that Vakhtangov had lots of tricks, he thought this was very bad. But when he came to be my student, he realised it was very good to have a lot of tricks. You saw some this morning. Keith Johnstone long-ago morning mean There is a bit of a problem with the match between derivative securities markets and the primary markets. We have long ago instituted principles, essentially high margin requirements, to prevent certain instabilities in the stock market, and I think they're basically correct. The trouble is that there's a linkage, let's say, between something like the stock market and the index futures markets, and the fact that the margin requirements are very different, for example, played some role in the October '87 crash. Kenneth Arrow long-ago requirements thinking Few of us have lost our minds, but most of us have long ago lost our bodies. Ken Wilber long-ago philosophy hands Well, very long ago, on the spot where the Wild Wood waves now, before ever it had planted itself and grown up to what it now is, there was a city - a city of people, you know Kenneth Grahame long-ago cities people You'd think that would have been forgotten long ago. But no, no sooner has a little grass grown over it than some clumsy camel comes along and rakes it all up again." Caroline giggled. She was probably imagining Aunt Glenda as a camel. "This is not a TV series, Maddy," said Lady Arista sharply. "Thank goodness, no, it isn't," said Great-aunt Maddy. "If it were, I'd have lost track of the plot ages ago. Kerstin Gier aunt long-ago thinking It's not very long ago that we were all singing country music. And country music is equally black as it is white and that's important to recognize. Ketch Secor long-ago white country Wisdom eludes me yet, but foolishness I captured long ago and to this day it is my constant companion, though many people consider me wise. Kevin Hearne long-ago wise people «910111213141516171819»
