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We have gone a long way toward civilization and religious tolerance, and we have a good example in this country. Here the many Protestant denominations,… — Harry S. Truman
Children read to learn - even when they are reading fantasy, nonsense, light verse, comics or the copy on cereal packets, they are expanding their… — Joan Aiken
Why do you need a voice when you have a verse? — Jim Elliot
Color in painting lures the eyes as verses do in poetry. — Nicolas Poussin
A Creator must exist. The Big Bang ripples and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with the first few… — Henry F. Schaefer, III
The Lord Buddha was once asked by a disciple to sum up the whole of His teaching in one verse. He replied: Cease to do… — Arthur E. Powell
I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one. — Victor Hugo
Oh, innocent victims of Cupid, remember this terse little verse: To let a fool kiss you is stupid. To let a kiss fool you is… — Yip Harburg
In the camp, this meant committing my verse-many thousands of lines-to memory. To help me with this I improvised decimal counting beads and, in transit… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously… — Jean de la Bruyere
They say my verse is sad: no wonder; Its narrow measure spans Tears of eternity, and sorrow, Not mine. but man's. — A. E. Housman
I assure you, my children, that when a Christian carries out with love the most insignificant everyday action, that action overflows with the transcendence of… — Josemaria Escriva
The vision and the faculty divine; Yet wanting the accomplishment of verse. — William Wordsworth
We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were partly completed tunes; some were… — George Harrison
It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable...Make up new names for them.… — Robbie Robertson
I had more verses . Owen Bradley said, 'Loretta, there's already been one El Paso and we'll never have another one. Get in that room… — Loretta Lynn
Apropos, is not the Scotch phrase 'Auld Lang Syne' exceedingly expressive? I shall give you the verses on the other sheet. The words of 'Auld… — Robert Burns
It would be nice to abandon the verse-chorus-bridge structure completely, and make it so none of these things are definable. ... Make up new names… — Robbie Robertson
No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water. — Horace
Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth… — Margaret Atwood

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