Verses Quotes - Page 6

• I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself.

  Brandy Norwood

  My Own

  "Brandy thanks Timbaland for endorsing her new rap career" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. December 9, 2009.

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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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• What judgment I had increases rather than diminishes; and thoughts, such as they are, come crowding in so fast upon me, that my only difficulty is to choose or reject; to run them into verse or to give them the other harmony of prose.

  John Dryden

  Running, Giving, Judgment

  'Fables Ancient and Modern' (1700) preface

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• I fell into writing, I suppose, being one of those awful children who wrote verses. I went to a convent in New York-the Blessed Sacrament... I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was spontaneous combustion.

  Dorothy Parker

  Hilarious, New York, Children

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• When you translate poetry in particular, you're obliged to look at how the writer with whom you're working puts together words, sentences, phrases, the triple tension between the line of verse, the syntax and the sentence.

  Marilyn Hacker

  Together, Looks, Syntax

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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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• There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.

  Eugenio Montale

  Writing, Connections, Poet

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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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• Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong,
  My love shall in my verse ever live young.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Young, Worst

  1609 Sonnets, sonnet 19.

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• There is, how­ever, a strong empir­i­cal rea­son why we should cul­ti­vate thoughts that can never be proved. It is that they are known to be use­ful. Man pos­i­tively needs gen­eral ideas & con­vic­tions that will give a mean­ing to his life & enable him to find a place for him­self in the uni­verse. He can stand the most incred­i­ble hard­ships when he is con­vinced that they make sense; he is crushed when on top of all his mis­for­tunes, he has to admit that he is tak­ing part in a ‘tale told by an idiot.’

  Carl Jung

  Strong, Mean, Son

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• I could define poetry this way: it is that which is lost out of both prose and verse in translation.

  Robert Frost

  Poetry, Way, Lost

  Robert Frost (1961). “Conversations on the Craft of Poetry”

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• Rhime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meeter...the troublesom and modern bondage of Rimeing.

  John Milton

  Poetry, Age, Ornaments

  "Paradise Lost". The Verse, 1668.

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• There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal.... Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbor is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbor he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ verse latitat - the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Wisdom, Blessed

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• He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May.

  William Shakespeare

  Dance, Holiday, Eye

  'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 3, sc. 2, l. [71]

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• He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Writing, Poetry, Temples

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• We're not attacking Islam but Islam has attacked us. The God of Islam is not the same God. It's a different God, and I believe it [Islam] is a very evil and wicked religion.

  Franklin Graham

  Christian, Believe, Son

  "Co-op cuts Christmas box link with US charity" by Hugh Muir, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2003.

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• The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, May, Delight

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• Ignorance is in relationship to content; it is not just a spirit of ignorance. In verse 21 it speaks of "the truth in Jesus." Truth is content, truth has something to do with reason. Truth has something to do with the rational creature that God has made us. The dilemma here in the internal world is not just some sort of grey fog, it is in relationship to content.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Jesus, Ignorance

  Francis Schaeffer (2012). “True Spirituality”, p.97, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• And I just hope that I'm forgiven for carin bout how they livin and loanin a little money and keepin em outta prison I aint lyin in my verses, I'm just tellin you the basics of growin up wit ya friends and becomin the one that made it

  Drake

  Real, Ems, Littles

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• Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Life, Success, Country

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.65, Cooper Square Press

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• A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

  Deepak Chopra

  Attitude, Perception, Experience

  Deepak Chopra (1990). “Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/body Medicine”, Bantam

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• But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious insights and ignore or reinterpret those that undermine your certainties. Selective quoting isn't just legitimate, but essential: Religions evolve through shifts in selective quoting.

  Yossi Klein Halevi

  Religious, Essentials, Doe

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• Some people like to read so many [Bible] chapters every day. I would not dissuade them from the practice, but I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Oh, to be bathed in a text of Scripture, and to let it be sucked up in your very soul, till it saturates your heart!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Bible, Heart, Biblical

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1882). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit: Sermons”

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• Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my terror, the pencil my shame; and my talents I bury, and dead is my fame.

  William Blake

  Despair, Talent, Shame

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.491, Pearson Education

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• Universe is just a verse of me, I keep it generic and the niggas take it personally.

  Drake

  Hater, Humble, Generic

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