Harper Quotes

• The upside to smoking is that you get to be social. I was looking for a light when I bumped into Ben Harper's manager. A couple of days later, Ben and I were in the studio.

  Beth Orton

  Couple, Marijuana, Light

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• Stephen Harper is probably the most dangerous human being ever elevated to power in Canada.

  Farley Mowat

  Power, Government, Political

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• I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.

  Ben Harper

  House, Records, Bass

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• If Stephen Harper took off his shirt in public, I'm not sure he'd raise any money for charity.

  Margaret Trudeau

  Charity, Shirts, Not Sure

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• You asked why I couldn't forgive you," Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. "It was because you were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn't want to be. That's hard to let go.

  Kristan Higgins

  Break Up, Letting Go, Breakup

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• I think the Liberals are doing everything they can to do turn it around, but the reality is that we're at the point right now where only Stephen Harper can lose this election. Only some major mistake by Harper or someone close to him can derail the Conservative juggernaut.

  Nik Nanos

  Mistake, Reality, Thinking

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• In winter, when the dismal rain
  Comes down in slanting lines,
  And Wind, that grand old harper, smote
  His thunder-harp of pines.

  Alexander Smith

  Rain, Winter, Wind

  Alexander Smith (1858). “A Life-drama, and Other Poems”, p.20

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• I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me, begging for attention, ignored. At dark, I kept reading, first on the couch, a bologna sandwich in one hand, then in my bed, by the light of a 60-watt bulb hanging from the ceiling on an orange drop cord. When my mother came in from her job as a maid and unplugged my chandelier, I replayed the story in my head until it was crowded out by dreams. I woke the next morning, smelling biscuits, and reached for the book again.

  Rick Bragg

  Mother, Dream, Morning

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• The last two days of shooting ('Harper's Island') was probably the most hardcore, the coldest anyone has ever been. It was like your head was freezing, and my motivation for most scenes was, 'The minute this scene is over, I'm heading straight over to that heater to get warm.'

  Elaine Cassidy

  Motivation, Islands, Two

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• Then take me on your knee, mother; And listen, mother of mine. A hundred fairies danced last night, And the harpers they were nine.

  Mary Howitt

  Mother, Night, Knees

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• I was partially raised by an aunt who was a dress designer, so I was around her studio all of my early life. I know materials. I can look through Harper's Bazaar and decide what works and what doesn't, or any other magazine, Seventeen if you wish.

  Ray Bradbury

  Aunt, Wish, Dresses

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• I never watched 'Harper's Island.'

  Dave Foley

  Islands

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• Your music can be played easily and well by any half-stringed harper or fumble-fingered idiot. Not that I'm maligning your songs. It's just that they're an entirely different kettle of fish-to use a seamanly metaphor-to Domick's. Don't you judge your songs against his standard! More people have already listened to your melodies and liked them than will ever hear Domick's, much less like them.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Music, Song, People

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• Photographers should make three or four prints from one negative and then crop them differently. When I was art director at Harper's Bazaar and at several agencies as a consultant, young photographers would bring me their portfolios and all the prints would be in the same standard proportions, either for the Leica or the Rolleiflex. Many times, by limiting themselves in this way, they missed the true potentialities of their photographs.

  Alexey Brodovitch

  Photography, Art, Agency

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• Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in the hybrid-rather than be represented by plus or minus signs, and put several seasons into throwing doubt upon the concept of immutable hypothetical units of inheritance concocted to account for selected results.

  Charles Thom

  Life, Science, Ideas

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• Stephen Harper is trying to load the dice between now and the next election in his own favour. Never before in the history of Canada has a government tried to use its majority to unilaterally change Canada's election laws with no support from any political party.

  Thomas Mulcair

  Party, Government, Law

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• I worked for Harper’s Bazaar. They fired me. I recommend that you all get fired; it’s a great learning experience.

  Anna Wintour

  Bazaars, Learning Experience

  "Anna Wintour Recommends Getting Fired, Says She Turned Down British Vogue Because 'London Felt Smalltime'". www.popsugar.com. October 25, 2010.

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• Gil-galad was an Elven-king. Of him the harpers sadly sing: the last whose realm was fair and free between the Mountains and the Sea. His sword was long, his lance was keen, his shining helm afar was seen; the countless stars of heaven's field were mirrored in his silver shield. But long ago he rode away, and where he dwelleth none can say; for into darkness fell his star in Mordor where the shadows are.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Kings, Stars, Long Ago

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.139, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Before she became the Girl from Nowhere-the One Who Walked In, the First and Last and Only, who lived a thousand years-she was just a little girl in Iowa, named Amy. Amy Harper Bellafonte.

  Justin Cronin

  Girl, Years, Iowa

  Justin Cronin (2010). “The Passage: A Novel (Book One of The Passage Trilogy)”, p.3, Ballantine Books

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• "Don't let go!" he orders. Harper's hand is dry and soothing, while mine is sweaty with fear. We've never held hands before. I think about what it means in the village when boys and girls only a few years older then Harper and me wander around with their hands clasped together. They're always peering dreamily into each other's eyes, sneaking sky kisses...and soon after, there's a wedding.

  Margaret Haddix

  Girl, Letting Go, Mean

  "Palace of Mirrors".

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• Tell me." Edward had to raise his voice a little. "Do you live by the principle that what people don't know can't hurt them?" "No," Harper replied. "What people don't know can't hurt me.

  Ginn Hale

  Hurt, Voice, People

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• Plus it's just embarrassing when someone - oops.' She pressed a hand to her side, and had the blood draining out of Harper's face. 'What? What?' 'Nothing. baby's moving around. Sometimes it gives me a jolt is all.' 'You should stand up. You should sit down.

  Nora Roberts

  Baby, Moving, Blood

  Nora Roberts (2011). “Nora Roberts' In the Garden Trilogy”, p.150, Penguin

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• Not all who own a harp are harpers.

  Marcus Terentius Varro

  Harps

  Marcus Porcius Cato, Marcus Terentius Varro (1967). “Marcus Porcius Cato, On agriculture; Marcus Terentius Varro. On agriculture”

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• Time has laid his hand
  Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it,
  But as a harper lays his open palm
  Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Heart, Hands

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.203

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• This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Ocean, Twilight, Sadness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.98

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