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country easy walks
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. Charles Dickens
country men climate
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. Charles Caleb Colton
country travel home
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
country sadness men
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
country heart simple
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.
country self names
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.
country mean hands
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.
country night men
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.
country character men
Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.
irish-dramatist man soon
A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day he shouldn't. But we do be afraid of the sea, and we do only be drownded now and again. John Millington Synge
irish-dramatist life taken
Life is too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde
irish loved parents played pubs songs special weekend written
She used to play every weekend in pubs with Daddy, and she'd written all these Irish songs out in a book. They're songs we've loved over the years, and because our parents played them in their band, they're very special to us. Andrea Corr
irish-dramatist
One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough. Brendan Behan
irish-poet learning
Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly each day. William Allingham
irish-dramatist life
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
irish-poet men rich rule
Law grinds the poor, and rich men rule the law. Oliver Goldsmith
irish-poet
It is a poor cause which has to be lied for regularly. Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
irish-poet lies-and-lying science
The insidiousness of science lies in its claim to be not a subject, but a method.
jazz funk ifs
I love jazz and funk, because it's hard. If it's not hard, it's not worth doing. Chris Carter
jazz
You never get it figured out. You just keep playing. David Sanborn
jazz form miles
Miles Davis was doing something inherently African, something that has to do with all forms of American music, not just jazz. Cassandra Wilson
jazz instruments
You've got to learn your instrument. Charlie Parker
jazz emotion language
Jazz is the language of the emotions. Charles Mingus
jazz
Everything I do is Mingus.
jazz scottish classical-music
Most of the music I've become interested in is hybrid in its originsClassical music, of course, is unbelievably hybrid. Jazz is an obvious amalgam. Bluegrass comes from eighteenth-century Scottish and Irish folk music that made contact with the blues. By exploring music, you're exploring everything. Edgar Meyer
jazz great-american blues-music
As far as I'm concerned, blues and jazz are the great American contributions to music. Edgar Winter
jazz-improvisation how-you-feel music-is
And more than anything, I like the improvisation of jazz. That's the same thing with DJ-ing. There's so much improvisation you can do with cuttin' and scratchin' that's reminiscent of jazz music, because it's all about how you feel. You're capturing a vibe and just going with it. DJ Jazzy Jeff
westerns
What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows. James Arness
western
Westerns pop up every so often, everybody does a western and then they all die. Bruce Campbell
western writers
I do have two wonderful awards from the Western Writers of America, one for 'Beardance' and the other for 'Far North.' The award is called the Spur, and the plaques really do have spurs on them!
western york
Western New York is probably characterized more by stagnancy than anything else.
western-culture facts dimensions
Especially for those of us living in the Western culture, death to a large extent is still a taboo subject. It's considered something dreadful that shouldn't be happening. It's usually denied. The fact of death is not faced. What we don't realize in Western culture is that death has a redemptive dimension. Eckhart Tolle
western
Everyone keeps saying the western's dead, but it's not. Edward Norton
western-movie western-films cowboy-movie
I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. Clint Eastwood
western-movie western-films cowboy-movie
Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me.
westerns
I loved Westerns as a little kid, and I loved horror films. Mel Brooks