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Nobody wants to watch perfect people. — Adelaide Kane

Dreams grow holy put in action; work grows fair through starry dreaming, But where each flows on unmingling, both are fruitless and in vain. — Adelaide Anne Procter

I don't really watch a lot of TV, to be honest. I'm more of a movie girl, or I Netflix stuff. — Adelaide Kane

Kinds hearts are here; yet would the tenderest one
Have limits to its mercy; God has none. — Adelaide Anne Procter

Just now,
Out of the strange
Still dusk ... as strange, as still ...
A white moth flew ... Why am I grown
So cold? — Adelaide Crapsey

As it
Were tissue of silver
I'll wear, O Fate, thy grey,
And go mistily radiant, clad
Like the moon. — Adelaide Crapsey

One by one bright gifts from heaven
Joys are sent thee here below;
Take them readily when given,
Ready, too, to let them go. — Adelaide Anne Procter

I do not ask, O Lord, that life may be a pleasant road. — Adelaide Anne Procter

People are mean to you? Why don't you just punch them in the face?" Meryn asked. Adelaide looked at her appalled. Colton chuckled. — Alanea Alder

When something is tragic you never really forget it. — Sophia Olson

I agree. I certainly like your mouth — Richelle Mead

I'd always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don't have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility. — Teresa Palmer

When I was a kid in Adelaide, I dreamed of becoming No. 1 in the world, winning a grand slam and the Davis Cup for Australia. — Lleyton Hewitt

Educate a boy, and you educate an individual. Educate a girl, and you educate a community. — Adelaide Hoodless

In your
Curled petals what ghosts
Of blue headlands and seas,
What perfumed immortal breath sighing
Of Greece. — Adelaide Crapsey

The old
Old winds that blew
When chaos was, what do
They tell the clattered trees that I
Should weep? — Adelaide Crapsey

I had seen Adelaide the dearest and the cheapest place to live in. — Catherine Helen Spence

Sun and wind and beat of sea,
Great lands stretching endlessly ...
Where be bonds to bind the free?
All the world was made for me! — Adelaide Crapsey

No guile?
Nay, but so strangely
He moves among us. Not this
Man but Barabbas! Release to us
Barabbas! — Adelaide Crapsey

These be Three silent things: The Falling snow ... the hour Before the dawn ... the mouth of one Just dead. — Adelaide Crapsey

Generally, I play the kind of ethereal, fragile-on-the-outside-but-hard-and-damaged-on-the-inside type. — Adelaide Clemens

Pain ebbs,
And like cool balm,
An opiate weariness
Settles on eye-lids, on relaxed
Pale wrists. — Adelaide Crapsey

Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, 'Grief will pass away.' — Adelaide Anne Procter

I'm a big fan of Tom Stoppard's work, and have been since I was in school where I studied him. — Adelaide Clemens

Sea-foam
And coral! Oh, I'll
Climb the great pasture rocks
And dream me mermaid in the sun's
Gold flood. — Adelaide Crapsey

Adelaide was the first city in Australia, if not in the world, to provide for the health and recreation of all its citizens. — Robin Boyd

Half my life is full of sorrow,
Half of joy, still fresh and new;
One of these lives is a fancy,
But the other one is true. — Adelaide Anne Procter

Is it as plainly in our living shown,
By which way the wind hath blown? — Adelaide Crapsey

Why have I
thought the dew
Ephemeral when I
Shall rest so short a time, myself,
On earth? — Adelaide Crapsey

I love new cities, and if I haven't travelled for a month, the need to go somewhere starts to gets under my skin. — Adelaide Clemens

In a photo shoot, you have to be very comfortable in your own skin. It's all about confidence-boosting and putting on armor. — Adelaide Clemens

Do not look at life's long sorrow; see how small each moment's pain. — Adelaide Anne Procter

Never forget that it is the spirit with which you endow your work that makes it useful or futile. — Adelaide Hasse

Seen on a night in November
How frail
Above the bulk
Of crashing water hangs,
Autumn, evanescent, wan,
The moon. — Adelaide Crapsey

Being on TV is kind of the best job in the world. — Adelaide Kane

Even though I live in America more, I feel like when I go to Adelaide, that's when I get to go home. — Ben Folds

If it
Were lighter touch
Than petal of flower resting
On grass, oh still too heavy it were,
Too heavy! — Adelaide Crapsey

Dost thou
Not feel them slip,
How cold! how cold! the moon's
Thin wavering finger-tips, along
Thy throat? — Adelaide Crapsey

One by one the sands are flowing,
One by one the moments fall;
Some are coming, some are going;
Do not strive to grasp them all. — Adelaide Anne Procter

You can be born with a title, but not respect. You have to earn that. — Adelaide Kane

If there is one venue where Pakistan can beat Australia, then Adelaide is that ground — Imran Khan

Hours are golden links, God's token
Reaching heaven; but one by one
Take them, lest the chain be broken
Ere the pilgrimage be done. — Adelaide Anne Procter

My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure. — Adelaide Crapsey

Thou hast
Drawn laughter from
A well of secret tears
And thence so elvish it rings, -mocking
And sweet. — Adelaide Crapsey

Auditioning is extremely bizarre. Just being an actor is extremely bizarre, but I wouldn't have it any other way. — Adelaide Kane

I never consciously set out to be an actor. I just kind of did whatever acting I could do. — Adelaide Clemens

Why do
You thus devise
Evil against her?' 'For that
She is beautiful, delicate;
Therefore. — Adelaide Crapsey

I know too well the poison and the sting of things too sweet. — Adelaide Anne Procter

I am half Scottish. My father is an expat from Glasgow, and on my mother's side there's a bit of French, a bit of Scottish, a bit of Irish. — Adelaide Kane

Still as
On windless nights
The moon-cast shadows are,
So still will be my heart when I
Am dead. — Adelaide Crapsey

I'm very analytical about the industry and I understand that there are value systems, and all sorts of things like that. — Adelaide Clemens

With night's
Dim veil and blue
I will cover my eyes,
I will bind close my eyes that are
So weary. — Adelaide Crapsey

See how time makes all grief decay. — Adelaide Anne Procter

But me
They cannot touch,
Old age and death.the strange
And ignominious end of old
Dead folk! — Adelaide Crapsey

Joy is like restless day; but peace divine like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, till perfect Day shall shine through Peace to Light. — Adelaide Anne Procter

Each man has some part to play. — Adelaide Anne Procter

Although my father is English, I was brought up in Australia. — Adelaide Clemens

Not thou,
White rose, but thy
Ensanguined sister is
The dear companion of my heart's
Shed blood. — Adelaide Crapsey

No star is ever lost we once have seen, we always may be what we might have been. — Adelaide Anne Procter

Adelaide is becoming a hub for higher education. — Geoff Mulgan

I once travelled to Adelaide on Emu Airways. I was 5,000 ft up in the air when someone pointed out to me that emus can't fly — Billy Connolly

Wouldst thou find my ashes? Look
In the pages of my book;
And as these thy hand doth turn,
Know here is my funeral urn. — Adelaide Crapsey

Listen ... With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts, The leaves, frost-crisp'd, break free from the trees And fall. — Adelaide Crapsey

I knowNot these my handsAnd yet I think there wasA woman like me once had handsLike these. — Adelaide Crapsey

Look up ...
From bleakening hills
Blows down the light, first breath
Of wintry wind ... look up, and scent
The snow! — Adelaide Crapsey

If illness' end be health regained then I
Will pay you, Asculapeus, when I die. — Adelaide Crapsey