Ian Hamilton Finlay quote: "But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it."

But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of impo...
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY

However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think ab...
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY

The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trus...
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY

My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the w...
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY

I came to these mediums through having the garden, and of course, people who have designed gardens h...
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY

If the work is pure then you have to think it could be understood. If it is not understood it doesn&...
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I on...
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY

As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY

Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but...
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY

I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY

For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling...
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY

I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et ...
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY

I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiqu...
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY

People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don&#...
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY

What you compose with is neither here nor there, you compose with words, or you compose with stone p...
IAN HAMILTON FINLAY

Compare that to the Samsung 2010, which is exactly the same printer for the same price after rebate ...
IAN HAMILTON

Does that make the Packers tackling dummies?
IAN HAMILTON

No IT manager has ever lost their job from buying an HP printer, ... No matter how many Dell compute...
IAN HAMILTON

We anticipate talks will be scheduled next week by the mediator.
IAN HAMILTON

We think it's a fair and balanced agreement that meets the needs of both the company and the union.
IAN HAMILTON

I expect Dell to limit the number of printer promotions that it does online to help balance the cost...
IAN HAMILTON

Nobody likes going into an office supply store to purchase cartridges,
IAN HAMILTON

One or two in the back room is all it takes,
IAN HAMILTON

That could explain why he threw so many high balls this season.
IAN HAMILTON

Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.
BARRY FINLAY

If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on d...
VICTORIA FINLAY

...almost every pearl on sale today was born of the planned sexual violation of a small creature, an...
VICTORIA FINLAY

There is also a plentiful and cheap supply of apples in the region, together with well-equipped faci...
FINLAY LOCKIE

I realized it was like a dating agency: the ions are the lost souls looking for mates; the electroly...
VICTORIA FINLAY

Before that there was no apple crisp market. Some firms had tried to break into it but they foundere...
FINLAY LOCKIE

If these talks come off, we expect volumes of sales to go through the roof.
FINLAY LOCKIE

The word antimicrobrial is a sales feature in soaps, skin lotions, cleaning supplies, food perspecti...
B. BRETT FINLAY

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

The high road is always respected. Honesty and integrity are always rewarded.
SCOTT HAMILTON

Real liberty is neither found in despotism or the extremes of democracy, but in moderate governments...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

If you like the outdoors, Colorado is a big adventure playground for adults: it's great for skii...
TYLER HAMILTON

A promise must never be broken.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

You have to keep pushing toward those dreams no matter what setbacks happen.
ANTHONY HAMILTON

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoyi...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Anytime you get an audience that's paying attention, you enjoy it more.
NATASHA HAMILTON

We're all grown women now; if we wanna do something, we can't be stopped!
NATASHA HAMILTON

Each time I've gone to the studio, the songs have got better and I've got more confident.
NATASHA HAMILTON

I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me...
NATASHA HAMILTON

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.
NATASHA HAMILTON

I love anything quiz related.
NATASHA HAMILTON

The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their i...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasonings, is a total ignorance of t...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

What the people wanted was a government which would provide a comfortable life for them, and with th...
EDITH HAMILTON

He was, first and last, the born fighter, to whom the consciousness of being matched against a great...
EDITH HAMILTON

The honor of a nation is its life.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in th...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

My father had risen in the British Army under the revolutionary aegis of General Montgomery, who was...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the s...
NIGEL HAMILTON

That's the miracle of Amazon! It's like Internet dating. In the early days, you could get sl...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Regularly, customers asked for a book on Greenwich, and there was none. After all, Elizabeth I was b...
NIGEL HAMILTON

After university, I taught secondary school for a while and opened a bookshop in Greenwich, just eas...
NIGEL HAMILTON

What George W. Bush learned in his pre-presidential years - and what he omits in his new memoirs - w...
NIGEL HAMILTON

In publishing 'JFK: Reckless Youth' almost twenty years ago, I had gotten into trouble mysel...
NIGEL HAMILTON

The moral was, in time of anarchy, tough leadership is the only solution - even though the collatera...
NIGEL HAMILTON

We should honor Franklin Delano Roosevelt today as the greatest commander in chief of the Armed Forc...
NIGEL HAMILTON

In my case, I belong to a group of aspiring and practicing biographers in Boston. We meet once a mon...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I became an American on Nov. 4, 2010, at an elegant ceremony in Great Hall of Bullfinch's Faneui...
NIGEL HAMILTON

At times, the reader of World War II literature must think every American, from general to G.I., kep...
NIGEL HAMILTON

For the serious biographer, history and the life story of a real individual are inseparably intertwi...
NIGEL HAMILTON

The White House tapes, recording Nixon's nefarious doings from Watergate to the bombing of Vietn...
NIGEL HAMILTON

As a student, I had stayed with Winston Churchill; later, I had lunched with Harold Macmillan - in f...
NIGEL HAMILTON

President Ford was taken for a ride by his predecessor, whom he unpardonably pardoned; Jimmy Carter ...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on...
NIGEL HAMILTON

The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already ove...
NIGEL HAMILTON

For all the failures of naval, air and army defense, the men who died at Pearl Harbor and in the Phi...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchill's doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Republican isolationists had certainly tied the hands of every U.S. president, year after year - ber...
NIGEL HAMILTON

We've sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I was more interested in skating and the girls and traveling than I was in calculus.
SCOTT HAMILTON

When you have a diagnosis of cancer, or any serious illness, your choices are basically to be passiv...
HAMILTON JORDAN

Some commoners are less common than others.
ALAN HAMILTON

In the last week,
ALAN HAMILTON

In the opulence of its set, its cast was remarkably adept and it was richly endowed with character a...
ALAN HAMILTON

There is, as yet, no Beast and definitely no Bitch.
ALAN HAMILTON

Its plot is loose and tortuous and will take some time for its stars to emerge.
ALAN HAMILTON

We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
HAMILTON JORDAN

The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and ...
HAMILTON JORDAN

If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is w...
HAMILTON JORDAN

I know a lot of people that had one cancer that are not alive today. I've had three. So my glass...
HAMILTON JORDAN

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who wil...
EDITH HAMILTON

To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
EDITH HAMILTON

Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without a...
EDITH HAMILTON

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day ...
EDITH HAMILTON

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
EDITH HAMILTON

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.
EDITH HAMILTON

Sometimes at night, when I leave and ride by the front of the White House and the lights are on, it ...
HAMILTON JORDAN

My role in the White House was grossly exaggerated by the press. Fortunately for the American people...
HAMILTON JORDAN

If your doctor tells you you have a rare disease that he or she has never seen, if you've got an...
HAMILTON JORDAN

If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, give...
HAMILTON JORDAN

And a tiny number of people in a few states make these decisions, and we're left with these opti...
HAMILTON JORDAN

The difference today is that, in both parties, the very extreme elements control the nomination proc...
HAMILTON JORDAN

You mentioned Ross Perot. Mr. Perot jumped into the race at the last minute, had one issue that he r...
HAMILTON JORDAN

We're trying to build a platform utilizing the Internet that allows the good American people to ...
HAMILTON JORDAN

It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. ...
HAMILTON JORDAN

I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a polit...
HAMILTON JORDAN

I like Kahlua and ice cream as a dessert.
HAMILTON JORDAN

Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

I discovered Boulder not through cycling but skiing. I was recruited by the university for the ski t...
TYLER HAMILTON

Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

The system is the best that the present views and circumstances of the country will permit.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself h...
GAIL HAMILTON

Power over a man's subsistence is power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

When you assemble from your several counties in the Legislature, were every member to be guided only...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

[T]he Constitution ought to be the standard of construction for the laws, and that wherever there is...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

In the main it will be found that a power over a man's support (salary) is a power over his will
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

The first step must be, of course, an inquiry into the extent of our industrial sickness, and he det...
ALICE HAMILTON

Surely there is every reason why we should devote to this disease the same intelligence and energy t...
ALICE HAMILTON

No young doctor nowadays can hope for work as exciting and rewarding.
ALICE HAMILTON

It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the P...
ALICE HAMILTON

It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States und...
ALICE HAMILTON

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation...
ALICE HAMILTON

From the first I became convinced that what I must look for was lead dust and lead fumes, that men w...
ALICE HAMILTON

Everything I discovered was new and most of it was really valuable.
ALICE HAMILTON

Every article I wrote in those days, every speech I made, is full of pleading for the recognition of...
ALICE HAMILTON

Power over a man's subsistence amounts to power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little gi...
BETHANY HAMILTON

The fundamental fact about the Greek was that he had to use his mind. The ancient priests had said, ...
EDITH HAMILTON

Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and...
GAIL HAMILTON

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show...
EDITH HAMILTON

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have is this. When I have a subject in mind. I ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

When the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free...
EDITH HAMILTON

It is inherent in the nature of sovereignty not to be amenable to the suit of any individual without...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

It is of the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate a...
EDITH HAMILTON

None but a poet can write a tragedy. For tragedy is nothing less than pain transmuted into exaltatio...
EDITH HAMILTON

Little more can reasonably be aimed at, with respect to the people at large, than to have them prope...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty,...
EDITH HAMILTON

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.
EDITH HAMILTON

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions, not look for more sensations...
VIJALI HAMILTON

" Ah, this is the constitution," he said. "Now, mark my words. So long as we are a young and virtuou...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

The only disability in life is a bad attitude.
SCOTT HAMILTON

I never think he is quite ready for another world who is altogether weary of this.
HUGH HAMILTON

Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing ...
HUGO HAMILTON

To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self...
HAMILTON MABIE

Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
EDITH HAMILTON

When men exercise their reason coolly and freely on a variety of distinct questions, they inevitably...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.
ELEANOR HAMILTON

A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchas...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard befor...
HAMILTON JORDAN

You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Our only president who has died as U.S. commander in chief in war is Franklin Delano Roosevelt - who...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Mind and spirit together make up that which separates us from the rest of the animal world, that whi...
EDITH HAMILTON

I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many o...
ADAM HAMILTON

We don't need mandatory, non-sectarian prayers read over the loudspeaker to 'put God back in...
ADAM HAMILTON

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Biography is, simply, the orphan of academia.
NIGEL HAMILTON

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of brav...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

I think the first duty of society is justice.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

It's easy to look at the things of this world to solve our challenges and obstacles in life, but...
BETHANY HAMILTON

There are seasons in every country when noise and impudence pass current for worth; and in popular c...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

I learned patience, perseverance, and dedication. Now I really know myself, and I know my voice. It&...
ANTHONY HAMILTON

Women love romance, but they're not as romantic as men.
GEORGE HAMILTON

It is the advertiser who provides the paper for the subscriber. It is not to be disputed, that the p...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

I call horses 'divine mirrors' - they reflect back the emotions you put in. If you put in lo...
ALLAN HAMILTON

'Back To Love' is a way of letting people know that sometimes you get caught up in trying to...
ANTHONY HAMILTON

God seeks to influence humanity. This is at the heart of the Christmas story. It is the story of lig...
ADAM HAMILTON

I have a unique workout schedule. I concentrate on balancing with my core and my legs. Then, like an...
BETHANY HAMILTON

Like, with one arm I know I can surf, but competitive surfing can be really frustrating, and sometim...
BETHANY HAMILTON

I don't know how long I'll be competing, but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing...
BETHANY HAMILTON

We all need that extra friend outside of our immediate family to talk about that extra stuff you wou...
BETHANY HAMILTON

I don't care to be famous. But at the same time, you look at all the role models these little gi...
BETHANY HAMILTON

God will give us the strength to be able to handle things. I mean, you can try to do it on your own,...
BETHANY HAMILTON

One arm might handicap me a little in competition, but I just work with what changes I know I have t...
BETHANY HAMILTON

God created the heavens and the earth, the oceans and the waves for our enjoyment. Surfing is just m...
BETHANY HAMILTON

Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abno...
BETHANY HAMILTON

I'm a surfer at heart. Both my parents moved to Hawaii in the 1970s, where they met and became C...
BETHANY HAMILTON

Growing up, I was blessed to be part of a great church. This is where I met many friends who have en...
BETHANY HAMILTON

Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging thing...
BETHANY HAMILTON

To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's s...
BETHANY HAMILTON

Surfing for me is more than my lifestyle; it's my passion, my love, and it's a part of me.
BETHANY HAMILTON

I believe in Jesus Christ, and I believe He gave me the passion and determination to continue surfin...
BETHANY HAMILTON

When I was about five, I gave my heart to Jesus Christ, and since then it's just been a strongho...
BETHANY HAMILTON

I guess I just like to challenge myself and push myself harder to do things that I don't think I...
BETHANY HAMILTON

Being out there in the ocean, God's creation, it's like a gift He has given us to enjoy.
BETHANY HAMILTON

Love God; love others; do your best in all you do, even if you fall short!
BETHANY HAMILTON

Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are!
BETHANY HAMILTON

Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may ha...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON

Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.
NIGEL HAMILTON

I am all for charity in judging the men who have occupied the Oval Office over the past seventy year...
NIGEL HAMILTON

I belong to the Boston Biographers Group - and get my monthly 'fix' from them. Where else ca...
NIGEL HAMILTON

Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our s...
NIGEL HAMILTON

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

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But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

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