one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art.
James Fenton
When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy.
Ruud Gullit
Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it.
Marlon Wayans
Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches.
Paul Engle
I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.
Grant-Lee Phillips
When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is.
Phylicia Rashad
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
William Hazlitt
I am an on-and-off vegetarian. Sometimes on, mostly off. I think it is better to be a vegetarian but occasionally, the call of the hot dog overpowers my ethics.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.
Steffi Graf
The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.
Lynn Margulis
James Fenton
When I was young I was one of the second generation of black people in Holland. My father was the first. My mother was white, and living with a black man at that time and having a how-you-say half-caste boy is not easy.
Ruud Gullit
Comedy is very hard, but you have to learn the art and science of it.
Marlon Wayans
Every Christmas should begin with the sound of bells, and when I was a child mine always did. But they were sleigh bells, not church bells, for we lived in a part of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where there were no churches.
Paul Engle
I've made a few albums in such an autonomous way; it often has been exhausting. It's almost difficult to enjoy the process when you take on so much.
Grant-Lee Phillips
When I am presented with good work, I accept it. Wherever it is.
Phylicia Rashad
Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.
William Hazlitt
I am an on-and-off vegetarian. Sometimes on, mostly off. I think it is better to be a vegetarian but occasionally, the call of the hot dog overpowers my ethics.
Jonathan Safran Foer
Grass is a surface I have always loved, Wimbledon is a tournament I have always loved.
Steffi Graf
The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.
Lynn Margulis