Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hoagy Carmichael

Slow motion gets you there faster.

Julian Casablancas

I enjoy songwriting. It's slow-motion improvising.

Nicholson Baker

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

Henry Rollins

Life is death in slow motion.

Robert McKee

Influence is just persuasion in slow motion.

Charles Bukowski

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.

Czeslaw Milosz

Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are.

William Shakespeare

The truest poetry is the most feigning.

Erica Jong

... poetry is fired by love ...

Gwendolyn Brooks

The poetry is myself.

Joseph Brodsky

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

Wallace Stevens

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Wallace Stevens

All poetry is experimental poetry.

Kate Grenville

I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.

Jay Nixon

There is a well-established process by which a prosecutor can recuse themselves from a pending investigation and a special prosecutor be appointed.

Melina Kennedy

We need a prosecutor who wants to be prosecutor. Not a prosecutor who'd rather be mayor.

George Galloway

I'm demanding to be prosecuted. I'm begging to be prosecuted for perjury.

John Hughes

My early prose style - this is so embarrassing - was sort of a suburban, Presbyterian knockoff of Woody Allen.

Andrei Tarkovsky

I have to say from the outset that not all prose can be transferred to the screen.

James Payn

And what holds good of verse holds infinitely better in respect to prose.

Chris Collins

Raymond Lara is being prosecuted for who he is, not what he did and why.

Owen Heimer

This exceeds anything ever prosecuted in this state,