Reciting Quotes

• When you get a class reciting some great poems, it'll tear your heart out.

  Derek Walcott

  Heart, Class, Tears

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Learn the words of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live them - but do not a make a show of reciting them, for he who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass loaded with books.

  Khalil Gibran

  Wise, Book, Words Of Wisdom

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• Every morning I have been looking at CNN to see if there is any reason for hope. I see a few large and impressive peace protests here and there around the world, but mostly I see empty robot faces monotonously reciting the magic incantations, "We must support the President" and "We must support our troops," both of which mean the killing must continue.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Morning, Mean, Cnn

  "Cosmic Trigger II: Down to Earth". Book by Robert Anton Wilson, 1991.

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• We are all proprietary toward cities we love. 'Ah, you should have seen her when I loved her!' we say, reciting glories since faded or defiled, trusting her to no one else; that others should know and love her in her present fallen state (for she must fall without our vigilant love) is a species of betrayal.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Betrayal, Fall, Love Is

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison (1989). “Italian Days”, p.201, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!

  Abhinavagupta

  Life, Faith, Spiritual

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• I felt like an impostor, taking all that money for reciting ten or twelve lines of nonsense a day.

  Errol Flynn

  Twelve, Lines, Nonsense

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

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• To find Buddha, you have to see your nature. Whoever sees his nature is a Buddha. If you don't see your nature, invoking buddhas, reciting sutras, making offerings, and keeping precepts are all useless. Invoking buddhas results in good karma, reciting sutras results in a good memory, keeping precepts results in good rebirth, and making offerings results in future blessings-but no Buddha.

  Bodhidharma

  Karma, Wisdom, Memories

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• When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.

  Daniel Tammet

  Years, Imagination, Records

  "Daniel Tammet: 'Maths is as rich, inspiring and human as literature'". Interview with Adam Feinstein, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2012.

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• I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition, I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the same lines, trying to make a small or large step towards an improvement in my acting.

  Alfred Molina

  Trying, Acting, Months

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

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• Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Lines, Stuff, Easier

  Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com. June 1, 2009.

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• They're not your words, but you're reciting the lines.

  Matthew Sweet

  Art, Media, Lines

  Song: Smog Moon, Album: 100% Fun

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• Never believe that true prayer consists in mere babbling, reciting so many psalms and vigils, saying your beads while you allow your thoughts to roam.

  Johannes Tauler

  Prayer, Believe, Psalms

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• The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.

  Israel Shenker

  Prayer, Men, Would Be

  Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books

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• Saying "Ameen" is permissible after reciting the Surah of al-Hamd in the Salat (but it's still not part of the Salat) especially with the intention of supplication.

  Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah

  Als, Intention, Supplication

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• The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the listener might find enlightening. I learned, for example, that in the late 1500s my little neighborhood square was a popular spot for burning people alive. Now lined with a row of small shops, the tradition continues, though in a figurative rather than literal sense.

  David Sedaris

  Squares, Cities, People

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• It's curiosity, and always a sense of poetry. You see it in particular in the chapter "Iceland" where I'm reciting ancient Icelandic poetry. It has this very beautiful gravitas in conjunction with the volcanoes.

  Werner Herzog

  Beautiful, Volcanoes, Iceland

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have seen quite a few folk whom I know to be both fair minded and, as it happens,[Bob] Dylan fans, take up cudgels for this position. To them, it's not necessarily that Dylan doesn't merit the highest honour. It's that he doesn't merit this specific highest honour [Nobel prize], in the way a champion pole vaulter shouldn't be given a medal for the long jump. It is in this group that the Wahey!s are mainly to be found, firing off jests, or mock solemnly reciting Dylan's sillier lyrics as if these are entirely representative of his oeuvre.

  David Bennun

  Long, Champion, Fans

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When these idiot rightwingers start complaining about poetry being political, I'm fond of reciting Sappho to them, who excluded men from her world. Why does she exclude them? Mostly because of their warmongering.

  Sam Hamill

  Men, Political, Doe

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• Which natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to master other languages (which would have hugely enhanced the scope of these answers). How would you like to die? Fully conscious, and either fighting or reciting (or fooling around). What do you most dislike about your appearance? The way in which it makes former admirers search for neutral words.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Fighting, Answers, Way

  Christopher Hitchens (2010). “Hitch-22: A Memoir”, p.253, Hachette UK

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• Reciting part of a sutra with the desire to benefit others is like reciting a recipe in the hope it will prevent people from starving.

  Bassui Tokusho

  People, Desire, Benefits

  Bassui Tokusho, Arthur Braverman (2002). “Mud and Water: The Collected Teachings of Zen Master Bassui”, p.104, Simon and Schuster

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• Energy-fire experiences take us into ourselves only that we might reach outside of ourselves. Metanoia is a de-centering experience of connected-ness and community. It is not an exercise in reciting what Jesus has done for me lately. Energy-fire ecstasy, more a buzz than a binge, takes us out of ourselves, literally. That is the meaning of the word 'ecstatic.'

  Leonard Sweet

  Jesus, Exercise, Fire

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• God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.

  W. H. Auden

  Heart, Tears, May

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• Millions of Christians can and do go through life attending church, listening to sermons, reciting the creeds and never confront the seeming contradictions, redaction and myths passed off as verifiable history.

  A. N. Wilson

  Christian, Listening, Church

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• All things in the world are singing a song, reciting a poem, inaudibly, to their surroundings, to the things they encounter.

  Phil Elvrum

  Song, Singing, Encounters

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, believermag.com. July 1, 2009.

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• When I recite poems onstage, I put myself into the very personal struggle and it grants tremendous perspective. At the same time you get another perspective on the poem you're reciting.

  David Whyte

  Struggle, Perspective, Grants

  "Courageous Conversations: An Interview with David Whyte". Interview with Kim Rosen, spiritualityhealth.com. December 8, 2014.

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