Quotes of the Week - July 1, 2008:
"What is so special is that you spend 27 years in prison, you come
out and you do the thing that everyone thought was impossible to do,
become president of the nation and change the way people feel agbhout
Africa." -- Oprah Winfrey to Nelson Mandela on his 90th birthday.
"I won't lie to you and say that I always enjoy the campaigning,
but when the days get a little long and I get a little frustrated, I
remind myself that I have a ringside seat on American history."
-- Cindy McCain, wife of US presidential candidate John McCain.
"Sixty-six pence per person in the country - less than the price
of two pints of milk or a download to an iPod." -- Buckingham Palace
spokesman explains the cost of the Queen to British nation.
Authors:
T. S. Eliot Quotes - Famous T. S. Eliot Quotes, Quotations, Poems
April
is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land. T. S. Eliot The Waste Land, pt. 1
I
read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. T. S. Eliot The Waste Land, pt. 1
And
I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you:
I will show you fear in a handful of dust. T. S. Eliot The Waste Land, pt. 1
Unreal
City,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn.
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many. T. S. Eliot The Waste Land, pt.1
That
corpse you planted last year in your garden,
Has it begun to sprout? Will it bloom this year? T. S. Eliot The Waste Land, pt. 1
What
lovely woman stoops to folly and
Paces about her room again, alone,
She smoothes her hair with automatic hand,
And puts a record on the gramophone. T. S. Eliot The Waste Land, pt. 3
Culture
may even be described simply as that which makes life worth
living. T. S. Eliot Notes Towards a Definition of Culture