Mines Quotes - Page 10

• I have lots of CDs that came out at one time or another, and according to the statements I've gotten, no one's buying them.I figured there's no need making a new CD. There are plenty of mine out there, and none of them are selling.

  Mose Allison

  Cds, Needs, Buying

  Interview with Jason Heller, music.avclub.com. April 02, 2010.

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• When I see someone who reads something of mine and draws something out of it that's very different from my perspective, I think that's actually cool. Sometimes it's worrisome when you feel they badly misinterpret it, but it just says that they're thinking, and they're bringing their own interpretation to bear on it. [...] That's part of the wonderful thing about putting words into the world, and if I was worried about that, I couldn't be a writer.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Thinking, Perspective, Different

  Interview with Donna Bowman, www.avclub.com. November 17, 2008.

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• Memory is a wonderfully useful tool, and without it judgement does its work with difficulty; it is entirely lacking in me.... Now,the more I distrust my memory, the more confused it becomes. It serves me better by chance encounter; I have to solicit it nonchalantly. For if I press it, it is stunned; and once it has begun to totter, the more I probe it, the more it gets mixed up and embarrassed. It serves me at its own time, not at mine.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Memories, Confused, Self

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• Go, grieving rimes of mine, to that hard stone
  Whereunder lies my darling, lies my dear,
  And cry to her to speak from heaven's sphere.

  Petrarch

  Lying, Grief, Grieving

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• After reading Howitt's account of the Australian gold-diggings one evening,... I asked myself why I might not be washing some golddaily, though it were only the finest particles,--why I might not sink a shaft down to the gold within me, and work that mine.... At any rate, I might pursue some path, however solitary and narrow and crooked, in which I could walk with love and reverence.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Reading, Solitude

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Civil Disobedience and Other Essays”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Art, Love Is, Hands

  George Bernard Shaw (2006). “Three Plays for Puritans”, p.34, Penguin UK

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• Now if you should hear any one say that Lincoln don't [sic] want to go to Congress, I wish you as a personal friend of mine, wouldtell him that you have reason to believe he is mistaken.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Believe, Wish, Politics

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• The fantastical idea of virtue and the public good being a sufficient security to the state against the commission of crimes, which you say you have heard insisted on by some, I assure you was never mine.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Ideas, Virtue, Crime

  Thomas Jefferson, Jean M. Yarbrough (1963). “The Essential Jefferson”, p.142, Hackett Publishing

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• I have never injured anybody with a mordant poem; my
  verse contains charges against nobody. Ingenuous, I have
  shunned wit steeped in venom--not a letter of mine is dipped
  in poisonous jest.

  Ovid

  Poetry, Letters, Jest

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• Condemned to Hope's delusive mine,
  As on we toil from day to day,
  By sudden blasts or slow decline
  Our social comforts drop away.

  Samuel Johnson

  Toil, Comfort, Aging

  'On the Death of Dr Robert Levet' (1783)

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• If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Majority, Politics, Vote

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• As in digging for precious metals in the mines, much earthy rubbish has first to be troublesomely handled and thrown out; so, in digging in one's soul for the fine gold of genius, much dullness and common-place is first brought to light.

  Herman Melville

  Creativity, Light, Soul

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.327, Herman Melville

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• The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both parents. It has taught us that as their earnings and success increase, men become "more manly," while women become "less feminine." This perverse cultural dynamic gives fathers an incentive to stay away from their families and kill themselves at work, while coercing mothers to limit their career commitment, which in turn limits their wages and shortchanges their families.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Mother, Father, Women

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• My wife and I have a perfect understanding. I don't try to run her life, and I don't try to run mine.

  Milton Berle

  Marriage, Running, Perfect

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• I was once in love with books. Now they go their way and I go mine.

  Mason Cooley

  Book, Way

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• Next, when I cast mine eyes and see
  That brave vibration each way free,
  O how that glittering taketh me!

  Robert Herrick

  Beauty, Eye, Brave

  "Upon Julia's Clothes" l. 1 (1648)

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• Happiness is not everything and men have their duties. Mine is to find my mother, a homeland

  Albert Camus

  Family, Happiness, Mother

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• All my life I've been terrible at remembering people's names. I once introduced a friend of mine as Martini. Her name was actually Olive.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Funny, Life, Humorous

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Good manners, Madam, are had these days not
  For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's.
  The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile
  Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.

  Allen Tate

  Weed, Good Man, Plot

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.204, Macmillan

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• The sky breaks.
  It sags and breathes upon my face.
  in the presence of mine enemies, mine enemies
  The world is full of enemies.
  There is no safe place.

  Anne Sexton

  Sky, Enemy, World

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• I master only the language of others. Mine does with me what it wants.

  Karl Kraus

  Style, Doe, Want

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• Mine be a cot beside the hill;
  A bee-hive's hum shall soothe my ear;
  A willowy brook, that turns a mill,
  With many a fall shall linger near.

  Samuel Rogers

  Fall, Ears, Bees

  Samuel Rogers (1843). “Poems”, p.215

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• The vast majority of people's concept of love is actually hate, more or less. “I need you, I must have you, I can't live without you, you're mine,” is all non-love.

  Lester Levenson

  Hate, Love Is, People

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• A friend of mine tells me that a Beethoven symphony can solve for him a problem of conduct. I've no doubt that it does so simply by giving him a sense of the tragedy and the greatness of human destiny, which makes his personal anxieties seem small, which throws them into a new proportion.

  Joyce Cary

  Greatness, Destiny, Symphony

  Joyce Cary (1961). “Art and reality: ways of the creative process”

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• I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence only reveals the immeasurable distance between us. The blessings in which you, this day, rejoice, are not enjoyed in common. The rich inheritance of justice, liberty, prosperity and independence, bequeathed by your fathers, is shared by you, not by me. The sunlight that brought life and healing to you, has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth July is yours, not mine.

  Frederick Douglass

  Father, Distance, Healing

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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