Verses Quotes · Page 4

My verse has brought me no roubles to spare: no craftsmen have made mahogany chairs for my house.

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay.

— Michael Drayton

A verse may find him, who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice.

— George Herbert

“One great function of Bible verses: To keep us from drawing false inferences from other Bible verses.”

— John Piper

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

— Hunter Parrish

I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.

— John Betjeman

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

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

— Drake

When you are very old, and sit in the candle - light at evening spinning by the fire, you will say, as…

— Pierre de Ronsard

To declaim freedom verses seems like a poem within a poem; freedom requires guns, it requires arms, but no feet.

— Franz Grillparzer

It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses…

— Julie B. Beck

Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young,…

— Jack Prelutsky

The words I use Are everyday words and yet are not the same! You will find no rhymes in my verse, no…

— Paul Claudel

No more pronouncements on lousy verse. No more hidden competition. No more struggling not to be a square.

— Louise Bogan

Mother's Day is among the most appropriate to reflect on the true meaning of love. -I Corinthians 13:4-7

— Bible

“I'd rather make my crib a house of God and pray directly to God verses, than listening to this hypocritical leaders/priest experiencing…

— Napz Cherub Pellazo

“blue-gold sky, fresh cloud, emerald-black mountain, trees on rocky ledges, on the summit, the tiny pin of a telephone tower-all brilliantly clear,…

— Barbara Blatner

There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there,…

— Donald Miller

In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it…

— Alan Moore

“sometimes i don't know, which moment which cool gust of wind will come, and enchant me tousling my hair and my heart,…

— Sanober Khan

But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious…

— Yossi Klein Halevi

I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and…

— Anonymous

“If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject…

— Plato

Nothing could have been worse for the development of my mind than Dr. Butler's school, as it was strictly classical, nothing else…

— Charles Darwin

“One should wait, and gather meaning and sweetness a whole life long, a long life if possible, and then, at the very end, one…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a…

— Brennan Manning

The U.N. [the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention] has looked into this whole situation. They spent eighteen months in formal,…

— Julian Assange

And still it is not enough to have memories. One must be able to forget them when they are many, and one…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Art and poetry cannot do without one another. Yet the two words are far from being synonymous. By Art I mean the…

— Jacques Maritain

Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they…

— Plato

I remember, when I was a child and wrote poems in little clasped books, I used to kiss the books and put…

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The shortest verse in the Bible is 'Jesus wept.' The only thing wrong with it is the past tense.

— R. K. Milholland

Let's be off before he gets his great horsey teeth into my poor lines of verse!

— Cornelia Funke

Much contemporary verse reads like failed short-short stories rather than failed poetry.

— Alice Fulton

Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.

— Dorothy Allison

Verses devoid of substance, melodious trifles. [Lat., Versus inopes rerum, nugaeque canorae.]

— Horace

The turnaround is when you have a solo in betwixt the verses. You stoppin' to have a solo.

— David Edwards

Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD.

— Drake

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

— Brandy Norwood