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Some say that Cusk has no sense of humour, but expecting giggles from this writer would be akin to expecting sonnets from Benny Hill.
— Julie Burchill
Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God.
— R.C. Sproul
Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot ...
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Elinor Lipman is to tweets what Shakespeare is to sonnets.
— Firoozeh Dumas
After you kind of find your footing, sonnets are what comes easiest.
— Marilyn Nelson
For a moment i thought i had died and gone to heaven. Now i see that i am very much alive, and heaven has been brought to me
— Shannon Dermott
I've been so used to being supported by musicians, and I don't class myself as a particularly adept musician on instruments. I think I'm a songwriter.
— PJ Harvey
I am sonnets full of stardust within the meter of my skin.
— Patricia Robin Woodruff
Muse's creations are predominately lyrical often resulting in poetic sonnets and fairytale like art.
— Earl M. Coleman
With a sugared tongue I whispered goodnight,
Kissed your eyelids, and set thoughts to light. — Selina A. Mahmood
Kissed your eyelids, and set thoughts to light. — Selina A. Mahmood
We'll all retire from life at some point. The great thing about acting is you don't necessarily have to retire.
— Denzel Washington
It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at night and we're all very familiar with it.
— Kate Winslet
Were kisses all the joys in bed,/One woman would another wed.
— William Shakespeare
They think thee mad? I'll show thou mad, my lord.
— Phar West Nagle
Ode to the Chamber
... linger here amidst the chamber
in which we embrace our love
talk to me of sonnets
and call me turtledove ... — Muse
... linger here amidst the chamber
in which we embrace our love
talk to me of sonnets
and call me turtledove ... — Muse
You're not going to start screaming sonnets outside my bedroom window, are you?"
He winked. "I just might. — Kenya Wright
He winked. "I just might. — Kenya Wright
No decent man ought to read Shakespeare's sonnets because it was like listening at keyholes.
— Virginia Woolf
Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?.
— Lord Byron
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite.
— Carol Ann Duffy
What is the deepest loss that you have suffered? If drinking is bitter, change yourself to wine. - from Sonnets to Orpheus II, 29 Rainer Maria Rilke
— Kate Bernheimer
Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves.
— Gore Vidal
The poor teachers! Trained in the traditional sciences, they were totally lost when trying to teach us about pigs or paddy fields.
— Ji-li Jiang
Again? Honestly, do you guys think she's hiding in Shakespeare's Sonnets?
- Tina Lewis — R.J. Morse, R.J. Brookes
- Tina Lewis — R.J. Morse, R.J. Brookes
To give yourself away keep yourself still,
And you must live drawn by your own sweet skill. — William Shakespeare
And you must live drawn by your own sweet skill. — William Shakespeare
Most girls want love sonnets, and you want a song about a cowboy wanted dead of alive- Jax Stone
— Abbi Glines
Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon The author of Lear remains unshaken Willie Herbert or Mary Fitton What does it matter? The Sonnets were written.
— Noel Coward
Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.
— Steve Earle
As an actor, I look at scenes much differently than I would look at them as a director, and I never realized that until it actually happened.
— Jensen Ackles
Your days are your sonnets.
— Oscar Wilde
My strings are being pulled, this time by a different puppet master.
— Emilyann Girdner