Famous Quotes & Sayings

Muriel Rukeyser

Our poems will have failed if our readers are not brought by them beyond the poems.

Marianne Moore

The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.

Amiri Baraka

God has been replaced, as he has all over the West, with respectability and air conditioning.

Amiri Baraka

Thought is more important than art. To revere art and have no understanding of the process that forces it into existence, is finally not even to understand what art is.

Amiri Baraka

This is said to us, even as this counterfeit president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.

John Whittier

Unknown to her the rigid rule, the dull restraint, the chiding frown, the weary torture of the school, the taming of wild nature down.

Samuel Ullman

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Marilyn Hacker

When I edited Thirteenth Moon, a feminist literary magazine, I basically supported it myself with an essential grant here and there.

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.

Clifford Jordan

We want to serve our state and our country, that's basically it.

Nancy Giles

Waiting. Waiting. What would you do if your family was starving and you saw people dying in the streets? 'Love thy neighbor.' Didn't I read that somewhere? The real war is not in Iraq, but right here in America. It's the War on Poverty, and it's a war that's been ignored and lost. An estimated 37 million Americans are living in poverty. New Orleans is one of the poorest cities in the country, with 40 percent of its children living in poverty. Mississippi has the highest poverty rate of any state. We've repeatedly given tax cuts to the wealthiest and left our most vulnerable American citizens to basically fend for themselves.

Mark Ferguson

Vernal pools can be found in a number of places. From high-elevation saddles between mountaintops down to flood plains in the Champlain Valley. Basically any place that will hold water for three or four months at a time is a potential breeding site.

Lukas Haas

I was in Kansas for about a month, and we worked most of the time in a very small town, so it felt like the production basically took the whole town over. In a way, we were the Martians in Kansas.

Louis Navellier

I'm from Berkeley, California, so I'm fully trained in socialism and all, but basically what they teach you there is markets are efficient and we can't beat them, so we might as well index.

Louis Sachar

'The Cardturner,' while it has bridge in it, you certainly don't need to know how to play bridge to read it. It's basically a book about relationships - between Alton and his great-uncle, and Alton and his friends, and how it changes his life.

Jim Myers

The other team played better than us today. That's basically what it came down to.

Michelle Wie

The positive energy I received from the crowd was awesome. I felt like I basically knew half of the people in the gallery.

Tom Coughlin

The personality of the quarterback, he has a large plate and he is going to lead by example and by his play. That's basically where our football team is. Our players do rally around Eli and his play and that's the position he has taken and that's the way it should be.

Isabel Gillies

I love memoirs and biographies, learning about other people's lives. Two of the ones that I loved so much were actually edited by the same person who edited my book, too. I loved 'Angela's Ashes.' I loved 'Glass Castle' so much.

Dick Wolf

T.V. has to be edited and scored and everything else, and if you don't like what you're watching it can be a very painful process.

Garry Beers

It was filmed at 7 o'clock in the morning. It had to be edited and on a plane to New York by 5 p.m.. It was worse for the singers - they'd have to get up at 4 o'clock. That whole side of it was very non-rock 'n' roll.

Craig Zadan

The way Rob Marshall has edited this movie, you can't just go in there and say take this out or take that out. It was all constructed so intricately.

Richard King

I've also directed, shot, and edited several music videos.

Andy Dick

It's being edited as we speak. I think it might come out in the winter,

Mark Twain

After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.

Fran Lebowitz

I've never had the experience of being edited and never will.

Terry Gross

I love the edited version of it.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Wherever the Word comes without power its essential content is missed.

Gretchen Rubin

My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the overall effect.

David Ricardo

Utility then is not the measure of exchangeable value, although it is absolutely essential to it.

David Duchovny

I just spend my money on the essentials. Just basically food and shelter.

Arnold Bennett

A sense of the value of time... is an essential preliminary to efficient work; it is the only method of avoiding hurry.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

For me, temperance is essential to good work.

Agnes Repplier

the labors of the true critic are more essential to the author, even, than to the reader.

Tom Lubin

We're providing a service that's very valuable to students, ... It's free to students and free to schools with scholarships. We're filling an essential need.

Charles Kennedy

I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.

Diane Wakoski

Because, in fact, women, feminists, do read my poetry, and they read it often with the power of their political interpretation. I don't care; that's what poetry is supposed to do.

Louis C. K.

Stereotypically speaking feminists can't take a joke. ::audience boo:: See?

Beyonce Knowles

I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.'

Beyonce Knowles

Take all the rules away. How can we live if we don't change?

Beyonce Knowles

The most alluring thing a woman can have is confidence.

Audre Lorde

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.

Demi Lovato

I have to ask myself, Am I content with calling myself a feminist? Yes, because I speak out.

Carl Bernstein

Hillary [Clinton] is neither the demon of the right's perception, nor a feminist saint, nor is she particularly emblematic of her time perhaps more old-fashioned than modern.

Carl Andre

I'm a feminist. I've always been in favor of women.

Jimmy Williams

We are aggressively seeking all sources of funding. We are looking at grants and other options. We really don't have (funding) identified as of yet.

Debbie Horne

We grant wishes for 2- to 18-year-olds with life-threatening medical conditions.

Thomas Goodwin

Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they.

Jeff Lemire

When I approached 'Animal Man,' I approached it as if it wasn't a reboot, as if the Grant Morrison and Jamie Delano stuff happened. I mean, as much as I could make it all make sense, it still all happened.

Tom Wolfe

I hate stories in which a person has an occupation and you never see him working at it, like all those marvelous Cary Grant movies where he's a surgeon, and you never see him in the operating room.

Patrick McGurn

So many stock-option grants were made at the peak of the market that we'll be working our way through these sales for some time.

Amy McConnell

She was looking over our information and noticed we paid $700 a month in rent and that we qualified for a special grant through the state of Michigan. She wanted to know if we wanted to be homeowners.

Aaron Eckhart

I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.

Granth Sahib

O Lord, Life of the World, please shower me with Your Mercy; grant me the Sanctuary of the Guru

Anne Fadiman

The problem with the literary hothouse of New York City is that people spend so much time looking in the mirror. They go to parties with people who are just like them, and they write novels about people who are just like them. It's limiting.

Tawni O'Dell

I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.

Horace Engdahl

I think he is unassailable from a literary point of view, ... On the other hand, there may be some people who think he's too established.

Ellen Potter

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books.

Jeffrey Eugenides

One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.

Siri Hustvedt

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

Ian Mcewan

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition.

Aberjhani

Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.

Paul Theroux

Japan, Germany, and India seem to me to have serious writers, readers, and book buyers, but the Netherlands has struck me as the most robust literary culture in the world.

Jessica Wolf

He wanted to find his goals. We supported his choice.

Sam Richards

There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States. That's odd.

CeeLo Green

I am a rare occasion. I think if everyone had known it was going be me who succeeded, they would have supported me a lot more. They would have known what to do with me a lot earlier. They just didn't know.

Karen Hughes

is something that's widely supported in the region.