Verses Quotes - Page 7

• The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.

  Phineas Fletcher

  Swans, Years, Dying

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• Walter [Cronkite] sang me a little sea chantey. The verse ended, 'Just watch your back with Dan [Rather], dear, just watch your back with Dan.'.

  Connie Chung

  Sea, Watches, Littles

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• With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to retina-blast shock to political outrage without missing a beat, The Troublesome Amputee is a powerful collection of pitch-black verse.

  Jeremy Robert Johnson

  Powerful, Dark, Mad

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• The Verse-Refrain form starts with a context before the topic that the Refrain is talking about happens.

  Ryan Cayabyab

  Talking, Topics, Form

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• Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy.

  David Ives

  Writing, Giving, Interesting

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• Civil disobedience is not accepted by religion and the state does not accept it and there are many verses in the Holy Book that talk of following the ruler.

  Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria

  Book, Doe, Holy

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• I know I should be leaving this climate, I've got a verse, but can't rhyme it.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Honesty, Leaving, Climate

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• They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose, may cling to the rock of ages, as a shell that survives a deluge.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Rocks, Age, Shells

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• Every verse a diamond, every chorus gold, the sound was my salvation. It was only everything, before money became king.

  Tom Petty

  Kings, Rock And Roll, Gold

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• I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.

  Francine Pascal

  Children, Growing Up, Book

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• I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.

  Hunter Parrish

  Song, Chorus, Written

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Writing, Brain, Tunes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.261, Harvard University Press

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• One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it's sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what's in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.

  N. T. Wright

  Depressing, Real, Taken

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• Here, then, is a simple rule of thumb for all of us to apply: If the words of Jesus challenge something I believe or challenge the way I live, the problem is not with Jesus. The problem is with me. Charles Spurgeon expressed this in broader, scriptural terms when he said, “If there is any verse that you would like left out of the Bible, that is the verse that ought to stick to you, like a blister, until you really attend to its teaching.”31

  Michael L. Brown

  Jesus, Teaching, Believe

  Michael L. Brown (2014). “Hyper-Grace”, p.218, Charisma Media

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• Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.

  John Millington Synge

  Poetry, Brutal, Humans

  John Millington Synge, Ann Saddlemyer (1998). “Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays”, p.10, Oxford University Press, USA

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• A sentence from Psalm 101 has been both challenging and convicting for me: 'I will walk in my house with blameless heart' (Psalm 101-2, NIV). When God speaks to me about being more loving, this verse reminds me to make application in my family first-and then to others. It forces me to ask, 'Am I more spiritual, more loving, or more fun somewhere else? Who gets my best-my family or others?'

  Jean Fleming

  Spiritual, Fun, Heart

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• For me, before I go on stage, it all depends. Might be a girl, might be an edible, might be a verse, might be somebody mixing something in my drink without me knowing - hopefully that won't happen tonight.

  Wyclef Jean

  Girl, Knowing, Mixing

  "We Played Two Truths and a Lie With Wyclef Jean and The Knocks". Interview with Ezra Marcus, livenation.vice.com. January 22, 2016.

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• I hate doing features because rappers take forever to get you their verses.

  JD Era

  Hate, Rapper, Forever

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• You know, there's black holes and what - could there be wormholes? Could - might there be a multi-verse? These are all fascinating frontiers. What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy? And what was around before the universe? And do we have access to higher dimensions?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Dark, Black, Energy

  "Not My Job: We Quiz Cosmos Expert Neil deGrasse Tyson On Cosmetology". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. October 24, 2015.

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• Sometimes when I'm writing a song I'll get carried away with production when I'm only on the first verse, and that sacrifices the songwriting.

  Nina Nesbitt

  Song, Writing, Sacrifice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wanted to do justice to texts that are in verse in their original, so I tried to invest my version with a comparable poetic power; hence even more literary fireworks there.

  Hal Duncan

  Justice, Poetic, Fireworks

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• The problem has to be answered by means of art, because you can't blast them with bliss. Tat freaks them out even more. So instead, you have to have an artful way of approaching them. You do a dance for them, you get them to imagine being interconnected, and to imagine being free of their suffering, and not so self involved, through art that draws them out. Then you, and they, are all established in what's called a Buddha-verse, or Buddha-land

  Robert Thurman

  Art, Mean, Land

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I have wonderful band mates that make music that I'm forced to listen to for hours on end until I come up with verses, and that in itself is an inspiration - they're awesome.

  Nikki Jean

  Inspiration, Band, Wonderful

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• So when I studied history at Cambridge, I did a special subject in that, exactly that. And then actually that - while I was studying it was where I came across the so-called incident of the satanic verses.

  Salman Rushdie

  Special, Satanic, Study

  "In 'Joseph Anton,' Salman Rushdie Writes Novelistically About His Own Life". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 07, 2012.

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• Well, we're still in the middle of it. And it doesn't show any sign of going away. And these attacks that were - that seemed so odd at the time, with "Satanic Verses," because we didn't have any context for this. You know, where did that come from? It seemed to come out of nowhere.

  Salman Rushdie

  Going Away, Satanic, Odd

  "In 'Joseph Anton,' Salman Rushdie Writes Novelistically About His Own Life". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 7, 2012.

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