"Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek."

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Source : "Of English Verse". Poem by Edmund Waller (1668); later published in George Gilfillan "Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham", 1857.

Edmund Waller

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“As a child, the person I admired most in the world was Lana Turner! She seemed the epitome of glamour, and her glitzy surroundings so enviable, the opposite of my mother's extremely banal taste.”
“The next night, Lincoln parked his Corolla right next to The Courier's front door. I'm here, he thought. Find me. Follow me. Make this inevitable.”
“I don't like talking about myself. I'm not really interested in myself. One of the good things about being a supporting actor is that you get to talk about other people.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“My feelings about my mortality are less selfish than they used to be. I used to affect a cavalier attitude to death; now I see it from my son's perspective.”

Source : "Rufus Sewell: 'Hollywood is my domestic idyll'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2013.
“In my opinion, the greatest misconception about the market is the idea that if you buy and hold stocks for long periods of time, you'll always make money. Let me give you some specific examples. Anyone who bought the stock market at any time between the 1896 low and the 1932 low would have lost money. In other words, there's a 36 year period in which a buy-and-hold strategy would have lost money. As a more modern example, anyone who bought the market at any time between the 1962 low and the 1974 low would have lost money.”
“I don't think there's that many great 90-minute comedies.”
“One thing about me, as far as my career is concerned, is that I'm very confident. I know I'm good.”
“When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done”

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