Calamity Quote by Sidney Sheldon

“It is a pity that no one in Paris bothered to quote Coleridge, who wrote, long before cubism, that the true poet is able…

— LeRoy C. Breunig

“Coleridge wrote a poem called ‘The Eolian Harp,’ in which he explored the notion of music slumbering on its instrument. It's a gorgeous poem!…

— Amal El-Mohtar

...one can't avoid the storms and calamities of life, but one can at least find the right partner to face them with.

— Lisa Kleypas

We all live in an ongoing series of calamities. I don't know of any individual who doesn't have a series of calamities. Life doesn't…

— Neal Gabler

“Suffice to say, the dream writer had a way of phrasing things. She could depict the curve of a cucumber, the shape of a…

— Meia Geddes

I've always been fascinated by dreams - mine are so vivid. I went through a period in my 20s when I wrote down my…

— Arianna Huffington

I was 19 when I wrote 'Dreams,' and that would have been when it started to happen. The band got signed, and I was…

— Dolores O'Riordan

“...I should always find, the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind; but that middle station had the…

— Daniel Defoe

Coleridge declares that a man cannot have a good conscience who refuses apple dumplings, and I confess that I am of the same opinion.

— Charles Lamb

The four principal oral instructors to whom I feel my mind indebted for improvement were Joseph Fawcet, Thomas Holcroft, George Dyson, and Samuel Taylor…

— William Godwin

The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference…

— Virginia Woolf

The Romantic poets were the prototype ramblers, and I've often found myself following in their footsteps - although perhaps not all of their footsteps…

— Arthur Smith