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.

Dee Dee Myers

The dirty little secret is that the pool man, who's making $30,000 a year, is subsidizing the million-dollar mortgage for the family whose pool he cleans. No wonder people want to get rid of tax breaks for corporate jets.

Edsger Dijkstra

I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me.

Zab Judah

I did not hit Floyd Mayweather low on purpose. I'm not a dirty fighter.

Elena Satine

I think I could totally be a gangster, but I could never be the kind of gangster that carries things out myself. I would have to be the kingpin that has my minions go and do the dirty bidding. I think I'd be pretty good at giving orders.

Dionne Warwick

All my friends and peers keep asking me when I'm going to rest - I just tell them it's another dirty four-letter word!

David Nicholls

Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.

Aaron Hill

Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.

Matthew Caws

I was sad when I knew I was going to have to make this record a little more obscure and a little harder to get. Just because, otherwise, I would have been airing my dirty laundry, which I don't see any point in.

Mike Knuble

If we're guilty of anything, it's not getting all our pucks on goal. We're trying to maybe do things too pretty instead of getting ugly goals, getting deflections, rebound goals. Not tic-tac-toe goals around the net. That's not where we're going to be successful. We've got to try and score more dirty goals.

Charles Osgood

While some of us may know than others about certain things, it is the thinnest slice of all that is, or could be known. In that sense, we are all profoundly ignorant.

Elfriede Jelinek

Love points the way. Desire is its ignorant advisor.

Jeff Bishop

I'd like them to be as ignorant as possible.

Source Unknown

I don't know whether to keep silent and let people think I am ignorant or open my mouth and release all doubts.

Chinua Achebe

That we are surrounded by deep mysteries is known to all but the incurably ignorant.

David Walker

I know that the blacks, take them half enlightened and ignorant, are more humane and merciful than the most enlightened and refined European that can be found in all the earth.

Benjamin Franklin

We are all born without knowledge, but curious. With curiosity we should be able to learn as much as possible. With curiosity, it has to take a lot of work to remain ignorant.

Barry Gibb

I like blues but it is music I am too ignorant to understand.

Brian Herbert

An ignorant friend is worse than a learned foe.

George H. W. Bush

Lynne is an incredibly important member of this team.

Marco Muller

So far, the results have been incredibly positive.

Susan Wojcicki

Mobile is an incredibly fast-growing market and will continue to be.

J. A. Konrath

My Kindle readers have been incredibly faithful fans.

Tony Kushner

My back went out and I gained 40 pounds while sweating over 'Perestroika.' It was incredibly hard, the hardest thing I had to do before the screenplay to 'Lincoln.'

Bob Woodward

On the other hand, Nixon was incredibly smart and intelligent.

Pete Peterson

I would characterize the meeting as very cordial, very comfortable, ... It (the exchange) was rather free-wheeling, without reading from notes. It was incredibly comfortable.

Douglas Coupland

I'm always looking for things that are so incredibly present that they become invisible.

James Marsh

I find films incredibly emotional. That's the power of the medium.

Evangeline Lilly

I'm a bit of a pick-pocket on-set. If something is small enough to go in my pocket, and it will be neat memorabilia, it's gone.

Tony Wilson

We get a lot of really neat toys,

Erica McKenzie

We won with superstars back to back. Now here we are with a totally different team trying to three-peat... . That's what's neat with this team.

Nick Reid

To go out on top with a big win like this, it just hasn't sunk in yet. We've come a long way. It's pretty neat to be part of the foundation.

Dennis Lehane

The world does not have tidy endings. The world does not have neat connections. It is not filled with epiphanies that work perfectly at the moment that you need them.

David Alan Basche

I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged just so.

Bob Hill

Here's what I really remember about Mike. On Thanksgiving he had us all over in Milan. We all had Thanksgiving at his apartment. It was just a neat day.

Dave Allison

He didn't see a lot of shots, but he played neat and tidy and was strong in the third period.

Mack Brown

For most of us who are historians, ... what a neat game.

Rob Riggle

I went through puberty late. I was a little, little, tiny kid. I was still growing in college.

Evelyn Waugh

We are American at puberty. We die French.

Emily Ratajkowski

I genuinely hit puberty before everyone.

Shenae Grimes

I've weighed 100 lbs. soaking wet since puberty.