Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Hass

There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

Philip Levine

Let's say I live to be eighty - I'm seventy-one now - nothing I do between now and eighty is going to change the way people think about my poetry.

Maya Angelou

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.

S. Walker

My grandmothers are full of memories,Smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, With veins rolling roughly over quick hands, They have many clean words to say, My grandmothers were strong.

e. e. cummings

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

Stanley Kunitz

Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.

Wallace Stevens

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.

Delmore Schwartz

All poets' wives have rotten lives Their husbands look at them like knives.

May Sarton

Each day, and the living of it, has to be a conscious creation in which discipline and order are relieved with some play and pure foolishness.

Julie Jameson

None of us walked into it blindly. Our husbands sat us down and told us what to expect.

John Gay

One wife is too much for most husbands to hear, / But two at a time there's no mortal can bear.

Maya Angelou

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

Samantha Harvey

We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?

Zsa Zsa Gabor

Husbands are like fires. They go out if unattended.

Rita Rudner

My mother buried three husbands - and two of them were only napping.

Sarah Howard

A lot of husbands want their wives out there with them. Until we start outshooting them.

Lynn Caine

Our society is set up so that most women lose their identities when their husbands die.

Terry Cooper

It's nice to know that our husbands and sons won't be forgotten.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

Douglas Smith

Mr. Dubois is not going anywhere. This is his home. He lives there. There are serious equities here.

Michael Leunig

Murk can be described as an enfeebled fog with a personality disorder; it is more troubled than ethereal, sulking moodily over our lives at the end of the day.

Jeffrey Skoll

My goal was to be at the point - no older than 40 - where I would have enough resources to make a difference in the lives of disadvantaged people.

Billy Joel

Now, we lives our lives...So nonchalant...We spend our time...So 'Bon Vivant'...Our stylish nights...So well-arranged...Those tasteful words that we exchange...We know it's all a passing phase.

Mark Allen

Now that day has passed, they can get on with their lives again.

Lisa Pierce

I feel terrible for those people. They're still trying to get their lives back together. I see it and I just can't stop watching it. Like a train wreck.

Kevin Doll

We've never had an opinion on whether Livestock should or shouldn't be here. If they do have Livestock, they obviously have to have security there. That's where we come in.

Maurice Herzog

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

Josephine Crawford

Their wives were there, too. One of them told me, 'You can have him.'