'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble...
BAYARD TAYLOR Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin...
BAYARD TAYLOR My duty is that of a chronicler; and if I perform that conscientiously, the lessons which my observa...
BAYARD TAYLOR So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other pe...
BAYARD TAYLOR The native Jewish families in Jerusalem, as well as those in other parts of Palestine, present a mar...
BAYARD TAYLOR London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
BAYARD TAYLOR The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Itali...
BAYARD TAYLOR Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the R...
BAYARD TAYLOR Melrose is the finest remaining specimen of Gothic architecture in Scotland. Some of the sculptured ...
BAYARD TAYLOR An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a pres...
BAYARD TAYLOR The original home of the Aryan race appears to have been somewhere among the mountains and lofty tab...
BAYARD TAYLOR I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sak...
BAYARD TAYLOR I cannot assume emotions I do not feel, and must describe Jerusalem as I found it. Since being here,...
BAYARD TAYLOR The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes...
BAYARD TAYLOR I envy those old Greek bathers, into whose hands were delivered Pericles, and Alcibiades, and the pe...
BAYARD TAYLOR The view of the Rocky Mountains from the Divide near Kiowa Creek is considered one of the finest in ...
BAYARD TAYLOR True, when you behold Damascus from the Salahiyeh, the last slope of the Anti-Lebanon, it is the rea...
BAYARD TAYLOR So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in...
BAYARD TAYLOR I know of nothing more moving, indeed semi-tragic, than the yearning helplessness in the face of a d...
BAYARD TAYLOR Grant us laughter, ... and grant us a time to enjoy each other.
BAYARD TAYLOR The loving are the daring
BAYARD TAYLOR Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin...
BAYARD TAYLOR I love thee, I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold, And the stars g...
BAYARD TAYLOR Shelved around us lie The mummied authors.
BAYARD TAYLOR And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.
BAYARD TAYLOR Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give. When to this truth you awaken, then you beg...
BAYARD TAYLOR From the desert I come to thee, On a stallion shod with fire; And the winds are left behind In the s...
BAYARD TAYLOR The loving are the daring.
BAYARD TAYLOR There's a pang in all rejoicing, And a joy in the heart of pain; And the wind that saddens, th...
BAYARD TAYLOR In the glory which overhangs Palestine afar off, we imagine emotions which never come, when we tread...
BAYARD TAYLOR Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall l...
BAYARD TAYLOR I was pleasantly disappointed on entering Bohemia. Instead of a dull, uninteresting country, as I ex...
BAYARD TAYLOR As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the d...
BAYARD TAYLOR A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Il...
BAYARD TAYLOR I could never see a book written in a foreign language without the most ardent desire to read it.
BAYARD TAYLOR And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread.
BAYARD TAYLOR When May, with cowslip-braided locks, Walks through the land in green attire. And burns in mea...
BAYARD TAYLOR With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring...
BAYARD TAYLOR Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap...
BAYARD TAYLOR But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, ...
BAYARD TAYLOR Opportunity is rare, and a wise man will never let it go by him.
BAYARD TAYLOR Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That n...
BAYARD TAYLOR There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post...
BAYARD TAYLOR The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division ...
BAYARD TAYLOR Verily there is nothing in all Europe so beautiful as Valldemosa.
BAYARD TAYLOR The more I see of the Swedes, the more I am convinced that there is no kinder, simpler, and honester...
BAYARD TAYLOR People can't see that if I had not been a poet, I could never have had such success as a travele...
BAYARD TAYLOR Poetry had great powers over me from my childhood, and today the poems live in my memory which I rea...
BAYARD TAYLOR Although Damascus is considered the oldest city in the world, the date of its foundation going beyon...
BAYARD TAYLOR Above Coblentz almost every mountain has a ruin and a legend. One feels everywhere the spirit of the...
BAYARD TAYLOR It is an agreeable and yet a painful sense of novelty to stand for the first time in the midst of a ...
BAYARD TAYLOR Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,...
BAYARD TAYLOR The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore...
BAYARD TAYLOR I study hard at Russian, which is a tough but most attractive language.
BAYARD TAYLOR When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, ...
BAYARD RUSTIN When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his ...
BAYARD RUSTIN Bigotry's birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for ...
BAYARD RUSKIN My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it i...
BAYARD RUSTIN I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and c...
BAYARD RUSTIN If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherh...
BAYARD RUSTIN When you're wrong, you're wrong. But when you're right, you're wrong anyhow.
BAYARD RUSTIN To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
BAYARD RUSTIN [Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for...
BAYARD RUSTIN When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous--a man who brutalizes people. But *you* love him ...
BAYARD RUSTIN It's intended to appeal to that market. It's designed as a resort community.
BAYARD DOMINICK There's this myth of the land being all wetlands. Everyone thinks it's going to be knee-deep in wate...
BAYARD DOMINICK Hines was working through plans for the property. When Hines got out, I thought it made sense to buy...
BAYARD DOMINICK The most challenging aspect is the flatness. We need to create positive drainage.
BAYARD DOMINICK The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow i...
BAYARD RUSTIN If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desir...
BAYARD RUSTIN The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider...
BAYARD RUSTIN I've seen the Rhine with younger wave, O'er every obstacle to rave. I see the Rhine in his nat...
BAYARD RUSKIN The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
BAYARD RUSKIN Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two months together; al...
BAYARD RUSKIN Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn he...
BAYARD RUSTIN Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the min...
BAYARD RUSTIN I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
BAYARD RUSTIN We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we hav...
BAYARD RUSTIN [Bigotry's] birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched fo...
BAYARD RUSKIN Shadows are in reality, when the sun is shining, the most conspicuous thing in a landscape, next to...
BAYARD RUSKIN Methought little space 'tween those hills intervened, But nearer,--more lofty,--more shaggy they s...
BAYARD RUSKIN I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been ag...
BAYARD RUSTIN The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invad...
BAYARD RUSTIN You are asking us to lie, Colonel?"
"I am asking you to omit. Surely, amidst the...the infinite...
LOUIS BAYARD The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3...
BAYARD RUSTIN War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely t...
BAYARD RUSTIN The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desir...
PIERRE BAYARD Our job is not to get those people who dislike us to love us. Nor was our aim in the civil rights mo...
BAYARD RUSTIN I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negro...
BAYARD RUSTIN The title of the work, its place in the collective library, the nature of the person who tells us ab...
PIERRE BAYARD I cannot give you a formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure-which is: Try to p...
HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to p...
HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE The first duty of a newspaper is to be accurate. If it be accurate, it follows that it is fair.
HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give...
HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. Give ...
HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE Don't forget that the only two things people read in a story are the first and last sentences. G...
HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for failure - which is: Tr...
HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party...
ROD TAYLOR I think every fight is a tough fight, but I'm not settling for a bronze medal.
KATIE TAYLOR Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're h...
TAYLOR SWIFT Never judge a stranger by his clothes.
ZACHARY TAYLOR When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someo...
TAYLOR SWIFT In reference to the Army and Navy, lately employed with so much distinction on active service, care ...
ZACHARY TAYLOR I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of D...
ZACHARY TAYLOR In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain...
ZACHARY TAYLOR As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and po...
ZACHARY TAYLOR Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which mon...
ZACHARY TAYLOR I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the polit...
ZACHARY TAYLOR The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Repu...
ZACHARY TAYLOR The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It ha...
ZACHARY TAYLOR I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me.
ZACHARY TAYLOR I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.
ZACHARY TAYLOR I have never yet exercised the privilege of voting, but had I been called upon at the last president...
ZACHARY TAYLOR My wife was as much of a soldier as I was.
ZACHARY TAYLOR It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
ZACHARY TAYLOR In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes.
ZACHARY TAYLOR The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is po...
ZACHARY TAYLOR I hope some compromise will be entered into between the two parties, slavery & antislavery, whic...
ZACHARY TAYLOR Soldiers, I intend to stay here, not only as long as a man remains, but as long as a piece of a man ...
ZACHARY TAYLOR As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so wi...
ZACHARY TAYLOR I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed ...
TAYLOR WILSON Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor,...
TAYLOR WILSON I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the Presiden...
TAYLOR WILSON I have too many ideas for a lifetime.
TAYLOR WILSON There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
TAYLOR WILSON When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what...
TAYLOR WILSON I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials...
TAYLOR WILSON If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afrai...
TAYLOR WILSON These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, an...
TAYLOR WILSON I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years...
TAYLOR WILSON When I hold something that's radioactive, it's kind of an indescribable feeling. It's ki...
TAYLOR WILSON As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but ...
TAYLOR WILSON My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. I...
TAYLOR WILSON I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, bec...
TAYLOR WILSON I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent int...
TAYLOR WILSON I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mea...
TAYLOR WILSON I'm a big believer in,'If anyone can understand my politics, I've failed.' If you ca...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing p...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I thought of Jeff Bridges in 'Hell or High Water' and Ben Foster, and I kept trying very har...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I look for absurdly simple plots so that I can simply focus on the characters. Having an understandi...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Sometimes audiences want to see what we're doing to their world. It's our obligation sometim...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I was going to be the head wrangler at a ranch in Wyoming, and the reason I didn't take the job ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a me...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I watched a lot of old movies. Clint Eastwood movies, a lot of John Wayne films, a lot of movies tha...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I didn't know if I could make a good movie. But I knew I could make a respectful one.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN You know that saying, 'You broke it, you bought it'? With horses, if you don't make sure...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Think about 'GoodFellas': It could be a textbook on how not to write a screenplay. It leans ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclu...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Bad people sometimes do good things, and good people do really bad things or do something the audien...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I've been fortunate to work with partners like Weinstein and John and Art Linson in developing &...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Plot is just not my gift. I'm fascinated with complex characters, and that doesn't mix well ...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and in...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN As a filmmaker, you have to stand in front of what you did and make choices that you could do with a...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Growing up, my mother was a very strong woman who was not very big, about 5'1'', but boy...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I think film cannot only teleport you to places you don't know, but it can help you see people y...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'...
TAYLOR SHERIDAN I'm a tall woman. At work, that means a lot of my co-stars have to stand next to me on apple cra...
TAYLOR SCHILLING Whatever it is that I am working on is what I become obsessed with.
TAYLOR SCHILLING In school, I was playing old men and women, babies, Russian people, and all sorts of weird parts - a...
TAYLOR SCHILLING I actually like pole dancing! It gives you so much confidence. I never thought I'd do it, but no...
TAYLOR SCHILLING Honestly, all the sweets and bad stuff on set don't really call to me because I'm working so...
TAYLOR SCHILLING I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind...
TAYLOR SCHILLING I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
TAYLOR SCHILLING I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorne...
TAYLOR SCHILLING I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I ...
TAYLOR SCHILLING I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.
TAYLOR SCHILLING For me as an actor, daring is to tell the truth - to be yourself, no matter how the world interacts ...
TAYLOR SCHILLING I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that...
TAYLOR SCHILLING Massages are my favorite. Sometimes just getting myself outside for a walk if I'm really busy ca...
TAYLOR SCHILLING My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about house...
TAYLOR SCHILLING There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do thin...
TAYLOR SCHILLING I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
TAYLOR SCHILLING I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very s...
TAYLOR SCHILLING So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you ne...
TAYLOR SCHILLING As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun ...
TAYLOR SCHILLING Coffee makes me go crazy.
TAYLOR SCHILLING I definitely felt by the time I got to grad school - which was a great experience - I was like, '...
TAYLOR SCHILLING I try to come at fitness and nutrition from a perspective of gentleness and what will make me feel g...
TAYLOR SCHILLING I wanted to wear a uniform when I was in high school, but I couldn't. I was like, 'It would ...
TAYLOR SCHILLING Life is so much easier when I allow myself to be myself and go with the flow. Whatever that looks li...
TAYLOR SCHILLING If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time i...
TAYLOR SCHILLING Be yourself. You're okay. And it really doesn't matter what other people think.
TAYLOR SCHILLING I'm not super social, don't really go to parties, or basketball games, or football games ver...
TAYLOR PHINNEY There's a lot out there for me to learn that isn't in college, so I think it's fine for ...
TAYLOR PHINNEY It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who yo...
TAYLOR PHINNEY I would describe my dancing talents as incredibly deep.
TAYLOR PHINNEY I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
TAYLOR PHINNEY I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after th...
TAYLOR PHINNEY When I'm not training day in and day out I love to go out and dance, even though it is potential...
TAYLOR PHINNEY I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religi...
TAYLOR NEGRON Everybody knows if you don't have an examined life, you go mad.
TAYLOR NEGRON We buy the tabloids to witness someone else's life go wrong, so we can feel a bit better about o...
TAYLOR NEGRON I personally won't have anything live in my house that can't move the car on street-sweeping...
TAYLOR NEGRON When the Bible was first published, bathhouses were mandatory, no one could read, and only the peopl...
TAYLOR NEGRON