Verses Quotes

409 quotes by 295 authors

When doubts haunt me, when disappointments stare me in the face, and I see not one ray of hope on the horizon, I turn to… — Mahatma Gandhi
In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind… — Alan Moore
If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank… — Brenda Ueland
There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that… — Pierre Bayle
God chose to introduce Himself to us in the first verse of Genesis as a Creator. And yet so few Christians really understand the power… — Phil Cooke
There is a verse [in the Koran] that says God swears by time. Anything you gain in life, you pay for with your time. Time… — Shirin Ebadi
Happy who in his verse can gently steer From grave to light, from pleasant to severe. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except… — Aristotle
My features & my shows 10 times your pay 50k for a verse no album out — Nicki Minaj
The earliest form in which romances appear is that of a rude kind of verse. — Thomas Bulfinch
I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were original and not conventional. The soul always hears an admonition in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. — Charlotte Mason
In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except… — Winston Churchill
His wet white face and miserable eyesBrought nurses to him more than groans and sighs:But hoarse and low and rapid rose and fellHis troubled voice:… — Siegfried Sassoon
And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse — John Milton
Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I lay me down… — Robert Louis Stevenson
My own verse is usually free verse. The freer the better. — L. Ron Hubbard
I love Nicki Minaj, I told her Iâ€™d admit it, I hope one day we get married just to say we f-cking did it and… — Drake
I'm always good for starting a bit of a tune and the first verse, but after that I just can never go anywhere. It takes… — Ringo Starr
One of my earliest memories... I knew three full verses of the Star Spangled Banner when I was seven or eight years old. And one… — Dave Van Ronk

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