Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bo Bice

My lifes a wreck, and I love it.

Edward Everett

You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . .

David Bowie

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

Adrienne Rich

I came to explore the wreck.

Clarence Darrow

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

Donald Trump

[Ted] Cruz is going down. He looks like a nervous wreck.

Corey Haim

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.

Joan Rivers

If you're not a wreck in this business, you're not around.

George Clooney

We're always going to be a society that's going to slow down and look at the wreck on the side if the road if there is one. We're always going to do that because it's still fascinating and it's human nature.

Charles Stross

Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

David Shapiro

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

William Shakespeare

Let us kill all lawyers

Charles Hamilton Houston

A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

Jonathan Todd

Whether or not the new transaction will have to be re-notified will be something that the parties and the lawyers of the parties will have to study very carefully. If, for example, it is a different type of transaction it might have to be re-notified.

Abraham Lincoln

Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public....

Abraham Lincoln

I am not an accomplished lawyer.

Alexandre Dumas

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

Liar, n.: A lawyer with a roving commission.

Charles Dickens

Why then we should drop into poetry.

David McCullough

Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

Camille Paglia

Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

C. K. Williams

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal

Eugenio Montale

The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver.

Edward Hirsch

Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.

Edward Hirsch

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.