A. E. Housman
A. E. Housman

Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

A. E. Housman
A. E. Housman

If a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

A. S. Byatt
A. S. Byatt

I think the virtue I prize above all others is curiosity. If you look really hard at almost anybody, and try to see why they're doing what they're doing, taking a dig at them ceases to be what you want to do even if you hate them.

Aaron Ciechanover
Aaron Ciechanover

We are a country that lacks riches. The Jewish brain, that's what we have. Everything that we've had and will have in this country is the direct and clear product of higher education. If we harm this system, we will drastically decline and cease to exist.

Abraham Verghese
Abraham Verghese

My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'

Alan Dundes
Alan Dundes

I find all folklore challenging, and I never cease to be grateful that I became a professional folklorist.

Alan Stern
Alan Stern

In the mind of the public, the word 'planet' carries a significance lacking in other words used to describe planetary bodies... many members of the public assume that alleged 'non-planets' cease to be interesting enough to warrant scientific exploration.

Alex Grey
Alex Grey

God's inexplicable. God is beyond the everything. And yet we can't cease to blather about it.

Alexander Chase
Alexander Chase

A shocking occurrence ceases to be shocking when it occurs daily.

Alexander Duff
Alexander Duff

The church which ceases to be evangelistic will soon cease to be evangelical.