"I was put off by people at school……" — Roger McGough
"I was put off by people at school - my cabbage wasn't as good as other people's, you know, so that put me off."
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11 Quotes by Roger McGough
Roger McGough has 11 quotes on this site.
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People can put their best poems straight onto the web.
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If I decide to be indecisive, that's my decision
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I'm terrified of switching the computer on because there are so many poems
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Yes, you can feel very alone as a poet and you sometimes think, is it worth it? Is it worth…
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If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been…
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You will put on a dress of guilt and shoes with broken high ideals.
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Everyday I think about dying About disease, starvation, violence, terrorism, war, the end of the world. It helps keep my…
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I wish the word whimsical wasn't used now.
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We shouldn't have got married, really. Shouldn't have got married. Too young. Not ready for it.
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Whereas with poetry no one has to show anybody really, and you don't have to tell anyone you're doing it.
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More Cabbage Quotes
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one of 88 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
— Ambrose Bierce
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'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax…
— Lewis Carroll
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Discipline is like cabbage. We may not care for it ourselves, but feel sure it would be good for somebody…
— Bill Vaughan
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He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
— Mark Twain
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Cheats, liars and criminals may resist every blandishment while respectable gentlemen have been moved to appalling treasons by watery cabbage…
— John le Carre
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The meal was pretentious - a kind of beetroot soup with greasy croutons; pork underdone with loud vulgar cabbage, potato…
— Anthony Burgess
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Everything I do, I do on the principle of Russian borscht. You can throw everything into it beets, carrots, cabbage,…
— Yevgeny Yevtushenko
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Kings and cabbages go back to compost, but good deeds stay green forever.
— Rick DeMarinis
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Brains, like cabbages, are beautiful-but in a different way. Cabbage heads are dumb and sterile, whereas brains are personal, intelligent…
— Carl Pfeiffer
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The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of…
— Robert Graves
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Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.
— David McCullough
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