Quotes with verses

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• 'Gorilla Man' is a composite of a few individuals, but the song itself was actually inspired by James Taylor. I spied his 'Gorilla' album laying on my floor and in some altered state, instantly started singing the chorus. It was fun to write. There's an old notebook with at least three more verses in it somewhere.

  ― Caitlin Rose
  American country singer (1987 - )
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• He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to sonnets, which he said were like that tyrant's bed, where some who were too short were racked, others too long cut short.

  Source: Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden

  ― Ben Jonson
  British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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• His opinion of verses.
  That he wrote all his first in prose, for so his master Camden had learned him. That verses stood by sense without either colours or accent; which yet other times he denied.

  Source: Conversations with William Drummond of Hawthornden

  ― Ben Jonson
  British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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• I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English.
  

  ― Alfred Nobel
  Swedish chemist, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist (1833 - 1896)
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• I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.

  ― Alejandro Amenabar
  Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer (1972 - )
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• One of my main problems with music is that the basic formula is always the same: verse, chorus, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus, chorus, chorus, end. One of the bands that changed that was The Beatles. If you listen to 'Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey.' It's three verses, bridge, end.

  ― Buzz Osborne
  American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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• The man is either mad, or he is making verses.

  ― Horace
  Roman poet
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• The only thing I can say that is wonderful about my mother is she forced me to learn three verses of the Bible every day of my life, and I've read the Bible now five times and it taught me the English language.

  ― Bryce Courtenay
  South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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• Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read.

  ― Voltaire
  French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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• When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

  ― George Bernard Shaw
  Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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• Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

  ― Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer (1613 - 1680)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• terminations
• controlling
• depression
• redacting
• slightest
• encourage

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