Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't ...
PHILIP LARKIN Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the bru...
PHILIP LARKIN For we have thought the longer thoughts
And gone the shorter way.
And we have danced to devil'...
PHILIP LARKIN Above all, though, children are linked to adults by the simple fact that they are in process of turn...
PHILIP LARKIN My mother, who hates thunderstorms,
Holds up each summer day and shakes
It out suspiciously, l...
PHILIP LARKIN Since the majority of me
Rejects the majority of you,
Debating ends forthwith, and we
Divid...
PHILIP LARKIN Sexual intercourse began in 1963 (which was rather late for me) -- Between the end of the Chatterley...
PHILIP LARKIN Life has a practice of living you, if you don't live it.
PHILIP LARKIN I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any-after all, ...
PHILIP LARKIN I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poem...
PHILIP LARKIN Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands
Like heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken,
Hidde...
PHILIP LARKIN When I was a child, I thought,
Casually, that solitude
Never needed to be sought.
Som...
PHILIP LARKIN Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.
PHILIP LARKIN Perhaps being old is having lighted rooms inside your head, and people in them, acting. People you k...
PHILIP LARKIN Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.
PHILIP LARKIN Morning, noon & bloody night,
Seven sodding days a week,
I slave at filthy WORK, that ...
PHILIP LARKIN Never such innocence,
Never before or since,
As changed itself to past
Without a word...
PHILIP LARKIN I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: I...
PHILIP LARKIN In everyone there sleeps / A sense of life lived according to love. / To some it means the differenc...
PHILIP LARKIN Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.
PHILIP LARKIN Far too many relied on the classic formula of a beginning, a muddle, and an end
PHILIP LARKIN I dream about that sometimes-and wake up screaming. With any luck they'll pass me over.
PHILIP LARKIN Sexual intercourse beganin nineteen sixty-three(Which was rather late for me)between the end of the ...
PHILIP LARKIN They fuck you up, your mum and dad. / They may not mean to, but they do. / They fill you with the fa...
PHILIP LARKIN You can't put off being young until you retire.
PHILIP LARKIN Death is no different whined at than withstood.
PHILIP LARKIN You have to distinguish between things that seemed odd when they were new but are now quite familiar...
PHILIP LARKIN Maturity

A stationary sense . . . as, I suppose,
I shall have, till my single body g...
PHILIP LARKIN I have wished you something
None of the others would....
PHILIP LARKIN In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference t...
PHILIP LARKIN I had a moral tutor, but never saw him (the only words of his I remember are 'The three pleasures of...
PHILIP LARKIN I'm terrified of the thought of time passing (or whatever is meant by that phrase) whether I 'do' an...
PHILIP LARKIN Man hands on misery to man.
It deepens like a coastal shelf.
Get out as early as you can...
PHILIP LARKIN I sit in my room like Miss Havisham, about whom I have been reading this week. Better the Dickens yo...
PHILIP LARKIN Most things may never happen: this one will.
PHILIP LARKIN Everyone should be forcibly transplanted to another continent from their family at the age of three.
PHILIP LARKIN The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to s...
JAMES LARKIN No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruct...
JAMES LARKIN My message to a lot of guys is, if you like school and you like education, baseball is gonna be ther...
BARRY LARKIN The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basica...
BARRY LARKIN I remember playing on pretty much an all-minority youth team and going to some of the tournaments no...
BARRY LARKIN I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I...
BARRY LARKIN I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career t...
BARRY LARKIN I wanted to go to college and play football.
BARRY LARKIN I think every player wants to be acknowledged for what they have done. I think every player eligible...
BARRY LARKIN I see it as a responsibility of mine to teach others.
BARRY LARKIN I love boxing. I like to see the strategizing. Watching the warriors go to work. I like that struggl...
BARRY LARKIN I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know...
BARRY LARKIN What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. The...
BARRY LARKIN What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals.
BARRY LARKIN If you can prove a guy did cheat, then I don't believe he belongs. I don't believe that ther...
BARRY LARKIN There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed.
JAMES LARKIN We worked really hard and we worked a lot on the fundamentals of the game and making the basic plays...
BARRY LARKIN You better hit the yellow! I want to see you hit one into the lights.
BARRY LARKIN That guy's really good when he's healthy. That's what I think. I mean, he's really, really good when...
BARRY LARKIN He's just put it all together. He's a fantastically talented, strong, gifted athlete. But with all t...
BARRY LARKIN As awkward as it sounds. I'm not Shane Larkin, Barry Larkin's son, anymore. It's Barry L...
SHANE LARKIN It means that the men who hold the means of life control our lives, and, because we workingmen have ...
JAMES LARKIN Xavier's been kind of lucky as far as injuries (over the years). I guess it's the law of averages ca...
BYRON LARKIN He was an energetic player. In the year we practiced, I never saw anybody steal the ball from him. H...
BYRON LARKIN I think it's lost a little luster, because both programs have come so far. It used to be like the bi...
BYRON LARKIN Huggins and Gillen, that (handshake) incident heightened it for a short period of time. It gave the ...
BYRON LARKIN We shall not fight for the preservation of the enemy, which has laid waste with death and desolation...
JAMES LARKIN Therefore it is essential that some means should be sought whereby the work of the nation may be car...
JAMES LARKIN I think I can bring a lot to the triangle offense. Derek Fisher wasn't the tallest guard, but wh...
SHANE LARKIN I was a hyper kid, so I didn't want to play baseball and wait for the ball to come to me. I want...
SHANE LARKIN It just buckled and went down, like a domino effect.
BONNIE LARKIN It looked like something you'd see on TV, like it was in slow motion. It just buckled and went down,...
BONNIE LARKIN This is a fight that as a fan I really want to see. On a personal level, I dread it. Both fighters a...
JAY LARKIN Plus you can fix your own meal, and you have your own bed. You're still in your own surroundings.
BARRY LARKIN This is still cheaper than going on vacation and staying in a hotel,
BARRY LARKIN We've got people coming from all over,
BARRY LARKIN Everyone thinks it's just retired people that do this and it's not. We have local chapters geared ar...
BARRY LARKIN We're just trying to get the word out that RVing is a booming business even with the high gas prices...
BARRY LARKIN I'm proud of what he's been able to accomplish this year, and I tell him that every time I talk to h...
BARRY LARKIN There's nothing else to say. Gateway was the better team.
ERIC LARKIN Comrades - We are living in momentous times.
JAMES LARKIN The souls you have got cast upon the screen of publicity appear like the horrid and writhing creatur...
JAMES LARKIN The bond market is starting to anticipate a more aggressive Fed. The Fed has two problems. One, empl...
BILL LARKIN We're probably getting closer to overshooting. It's likely that it's going to start to impair econom...
BILL LARKIN Lot of improve, so we have people from the audience that come up and spell. Lot of fun doing that.
BILL LARKIN Who are these people sharing the street with me? What is going on in their worlds, inside their head...
ALISON LARKIN Longevity-and sanity. Eccentric old ladies on Harleys I can deal with.
ALISON LARKIN The interest groups are not going to throw their support to a candidate who has hurdles to overcome.
BYRDIE LARKIN This gear is good for everyday use.
DAN LARKIN When I was young, it was fun being in the locker room and shagging balls in the outfield in spring t...
SHANE LARKIN We Burmese,' he began, 'are experts at looking for what's not there. It's something you should learn...
EMMA LARKIN We Burmese people are totally content,' he replied, hazing calmly into my eyes. 'Do you know why? Be...
EMMA LARKIN The circus has been around longer than baseball, but every year it's a different show. We're really ...
DONNA LARKIN Best of all, everyone gets a red nose.
DONNA LARKIN Our agencies have been telling us that in the last year they've seen an 11 percent increase in need....
DONNA LARKIN The best thanks we could offer those who went before and raised the Irish working class from their k...
JAMES LARKIN We'll do our best to get the right information out. We would not want to mislead the public.
EILEEN LARKIN My goal is to move forward with the town and ask them to be more open to us when they propose bondin...
EILEEN LARKIN It's a no-lose situation for the children, the parents and the community. That's wonderful. It's mon...
EILEEN LARKIN He recovered and showed himself a leader, particularly during Katrina. Alabama escaped the chaos wit...
BYRDIE LARKIN He recovered and showed himself a leader, particularly during Katrina.
BYRDIE LARKIN The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many case...
JAMES LARKIN We are now on the threshold of a newer movement, with a newer hope and a new inspiration.
JAMES LARKIN We make mistakes, we have our faults, and God knows some of us have more than our share, but when da...
JAMES LARKIN I, on the other hand, interrupt people because my thoughts fly out of my mouth. My handbag's full of...
ALISON LARKIN The numbers are still going up.
DAN LARKIN The numbers are still going up. We've got a much higher volume of sites popping up.
DAN LARKIN A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be ca...
JAMES LARKIN These are acute, lifesaving products.
GREG LARKIN We're not opposing it but we're not supporting it. Even with the company's (no-layoff) assurance, ou...
FRANK LARKIN We're not opposing it but we're not supporting it, ... Even with the company's (no-layoff) assurance...
FRANK LARKIN The fact that they're here and we're here to talk with the mediators shouldn't be just a formality,
FRANK LARKIN I think both sides were anxious that progress that was already achieved not be risked by this (overt...
FRANK LARKIN The numbers (of mechanics working forced overtime) were small but the concerns were large it could i...
FRANK LARKIN The company's goals are just that -- goals. No professional is going to risk lives and his career to...
FRANK LARKIN Up until this point there has always been an exit that allowed the talks to go on, the prospect of a...
FRANK LARKIN It's a good sign they're going back into negotiations, ... That's where they're going to reach an ag...
FRANK LARKIN It's premature to say no, because we haven't seen any specifics of any proposals. What has to take p...
FRANK LARKIN On one hand there are some mechanics that are angry because it has taken so long and a third party h...
FRANK LARKIN It was a matter of pride. They kicked our butts in the first half, and we weren't going to end our s...
ERIC LARKIN He has been great. He has adapted to the collegiate style of wrestling. He listens, learns and does ...
ERIC LARKIN The three of us know exactly what the other is going to do. We're finally playing together, which is...
ERIC LARKIN After the turnover at the end of (the Grand Junction) game, I didn't want to let these fans down aga...
ERIC LARKIN In designing for the environment, mid-market companies need to be able to handle many of the same co...
ERIC LARKIN We didn't come out ready. We turned the ball over a bunch, but in the second half, Sammie stepped up...
ERIC LARKIN It enables a compliance BOM, and makes it possible to track what the company does about compliance?w...
ERIC LARKIN Our defense was horrible in the beginning. But we started to gel a little better, which opened thing...
ERIC LARKIN The impact of environmental regulations is blind to company size.
ERIC LARKIN Our main focus was Perkins. And their point guard (Cory Schmitt) did a good job against us in the fi...
ERIC LARKIN I am a ghost. A wraith of atoms. A shadow.
JOHN LARKIN You've got that look about you, like you've seen more than you should have.
JOHN LARKIN We start each day with a blank sheet of paper in front of us, and what we write on it is up to us.
JOHN LARKIN Jeff is the first of his Olympic class to win a world title. He's a really terrific young man. A gre...
JAY LARKIN allows us to get stronger and to have stronger content.
JAMES LARKIN Houston represents an important growth area for McKesson, ... so the decision was made to locate a d...
JAMES LARKIN We've got some young kids but their talented and fully capable of contributing. Our defense is very ...
JAMES LARKIN We're looking to get more wins on the board and get a better seeding in the states. We'd also like t...
JAMES LARKIN In our opinion, the supply and demand dynamics have set the stage for a multi-year bull market for g...
LEO LARKIN With what happened earlier this morning, I guess [Alcoa] decided to show their cards.
LEO LARKIN Reynolds said in its last conference call that it would be open to mergers. In light of what happene...
LEO LARKIN We have to be steady and play our golf. If we can keep our heads in the game, it won't be a problem.
JUDI LARKIN He's helped fill some holes. But a lack of playing time can also lead to a lack of confidence for hi...
JUDI LARKIN One player is in Australia. And another is out with a shoulder injury. Also, being in the northern p...
JUDI LARKIN Find people that are great and learn from them, be selfless with all of the great knowledge that you...
JOE LARKIN At some point, rock 'n' roll was mainly guys. So it makes sense that women would stand there and wat...
PATTY LARKIN Any mother alive tries to protect their family, and teachers are our family. We need to speak out an...
JEAN LARKIN WEIGHTMAN I think the nicest part was hearing from the parents that you listened.
JEAN LARKIN WEIGHTMAN Gosh, real history will be lost. He will be sorely missed. He's just a close friend, and such a char...
JEAN LARKIN WEIGHTMAN I don't think Pasco County has had a finer school board member.
JEAN LARKIN WEIGHTMAN Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer.
PHILIP TREACY Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them.
PHILIP TREACY I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis&...
PHILIP GREEN I'm in the retail business, not the circus business.
PHILIP GREEN You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds ...
PHILIP GREEN I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I...
PHILIP GREEN You've got to love what you do to really make things happen.
PHILIP GREEN They already know all about brands... but what 16- and 17-year-olds won't necessarily have is ex...
PHILIP GREEN We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tige...
PHILIP YANCEY Either I will find a way, or I will make one.
PHILIP SIDNEY I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless.
PHILIP GREEN Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own.
PHILIP TREACY Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.
PHILIP MASSINGER My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a v...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movi...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species...
PHILIP ROTH Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion
PHILIP WYLIE All this, and Heaven too!
PHILIP HENRY Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what ...
PHILIP ZIMBARDO It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is mos...
PHILIP SIDNEY Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in y...
PHILIP PULLMAN The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.
PHILIP EMEAGWALI Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim ...
PHILIP CROSBY The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the w...
PHILIP CALDWELL Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers Of such as do offend, make less the sin.
PHILIP MASSINGER I got a good heart but my attitude gat people thinking I'm evil
GENEREUX PHILIP A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an arm...
PHILIP ROTH A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy un...
PHILIP ROTH Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagina...
PHILIP PULLMAN After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely p...
PHILIP STREIFER I don't believe in it. All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes rea...
PHILIP PULLMAN Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly whe...
PHILIP ROTH You may boldly say, you did not plough Or trust the barren and ungrateful sands With the fruit...
PHILIP MASSINGER You cannot change what you are, only what you do.
PHILIP PULLMAN If God could run out of grace, He would’ve for me by now. And yet every morning I wake up, He says...
GENEREUX PHILIP To some, the image of a pale body glimmering on a dark night whispers of defeat. What good is a God ...
PHILIP YANCEY There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willi...
PHILIP PULLMAN We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and si...
PHILIP PULLMAN After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.
PHILIP PULLMAN Keep away from the kinship of the individuals who continually ask and examine the imperfections of o...
GENEREUX PHILIP I can’t bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel,” she continued. “Sooner anything than that. I us...
PHILIP PULLMAN The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.
PHILIP KNIGHT Patience, the beggar's virtue, shall find no harbor here.
PHILIP MASSINGER If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
PHILIP WYLIE I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so...
PHILIP ROTH It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you con...
PHILIP ROTH Biography is a very definite region bounded on the north by history, on the south by fiction, on the...
PHILIP GUEDALLA All architects want to live beyond their deaths.
PHILIP JOHNSON Only in America do these peasants, our mothers, get their hair dyed platinum at the age of sixty, an...
PHILIP ROTH Optimism and humor are the grease and glue of life. Without both of them we would never have survive...
PHILIP BUTLER When in doubt, delete it.
PHILIP COSBY When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
PHILIP ROTH He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.
PHILIP MASSINGER We do pretty much whatever we want to.
PHILIP JOHNSON It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.
PHILIP GIBBS