Land Quotes - Page 126

This sort of thing has got to be stopped. Bad philosophers are like slum landlords. It's my job to put them out of business.

The land is dearer for the sea, The ocean for the shore.

Redheaded Peckerwood, which unerringly walks the fine line between fiction and nonfiction, is a disturbingly beautiful narrative about unfathomable violence and its place on the land

Maybe he overreacted a bit." - "A bit? That's like Hitler saying, 'Oooh, I just meant to go for a little walk, but then I accidentally invaded Poland".

Up the Rebels, To Hell with the Pope, And God Save--as you prefer--the King or Ireland. The land of scholars and saints: Scholars and saints my eye, the land of ambush, Purblind manifestoes, never-ending complaints

In England you laugh at yourselves, in France we laugh at others.

My mother's life had been destroyed by the Garland legend.

When you're Judy Garland and you want something, you just pick up the phone and call somebody. Anybody.

I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.

I don't like the term 'ensemble.' It's bland to me.

This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.

In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.

I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.

I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere, they are visible yet everywhere occult.

How puzzling all these changes are! I'm never sure what I'm going to be, from one minute to another.

I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.

In a wonderland they lie, dreaming as the days go by

We haven't any and you're too young.

There ought to be a book written about me, that there ought!

These ballot initiatives remind us that America is the land where people are free to dream whatever they want, so long as that dream doesn't make Midwesterners feel icky!

It's very, very rare in this business [moviemaking] where a script lands on your lap ready to go.

Our oil-based society depends on non-renewable resources. It requires relentless probing into vast reaches of pristine land, sacrificing vital bioregions, and irreplaceable cultures. The possibility of catastrophic climate change is substantially increased by the 40 million barrels of oil burned every day by vehicles. We must all move shoulder to shoulder in a unified front to show this administration that the true majority of people are willing to vote for a cleaner environment and won't back down.

I feel that this is a vocabulary that I grew up with. This biblical landscape is very familiar to me, and it's natural that I use those landmarks as references. Once they were universal references and everybody understood and knew them and located them. That's no longer the case today, but it is still my landscape.

England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.

Viewed from a certain distance and under good light, even an ugly city can look like the promised land.