"He nothing common did, or mean, / Upon that memorable scene, / But with his keener eye / The axe's edge did try."

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Source : "An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland" l. 57 (written 1650)

Andrew Marvell

#Memorable Quotes #Mean Quotes #Eye Quotes

“I'm recognizable in certain circles, like girls know me, couples know me. But not all straight men know me.”
“I never looked around me because it might freak me out, because if you're up on a mountain you don't wanna like, look down.”
“One of the hardest questions I have been asked is How will you manage the army if you are having menstrual cramps? I have also been asked if I will have the courage to face criminals. My answer is that courage is not a matter of gender.”

Source : "Josefina Vazquez Mota Challenges Mexico's Machismo". "El Universal" Newspaper, www.foxnews.com. February 7, 2012.
“Where there is no belief in the soul, there is very little drama . . . . Either one is serious about salvation or one is not. And it is well to realize that the maximum amount of seriousness admits the maximum amount of comedy. Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe.”
“As if you could pick in love, as if it were not a lightning bolt that splits your bones and leaves you staked out in the middle of the courtyard. (...) You don't pick out the rain that soaks you to the skin when you come out of a concert.”
“The irony is that I don't think we took a step backwards to make 'Group Therapy'. I think we took a step forward because it's a lot more complicated to make that kind of album. I think that album was far more produced than 'American Apathy', and it had a lot more harmony vocals and lots of intricate parts musically speaking.”
“I want to keep working, I want to keep doing my humanitarian stuff around the world, shining light on different places that have problems. Keep making movies, make people laugh.”

Source : "Chris Tucker and Brett Ratner". Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. August 7, 2007.
“The other problem in my life is Dimitri. He's the one who killed Natalie, and he's a total badass. He's also pretty good-looking. Okayâ€”more than good-looking. He's hotâ€”like, the kind of hot that makes you stop walking on the street and get hit by traffic.”

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