Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Collins

I love to move like a mouse inside this puzzle for the body, balancing the wish to be lost with the need to be found.

Billy Collins

I started moving away from poets like Wallace Stevens and Hart Crane and started reading poets like, again, Karl Shapiro, Howard Nemerov, Philip Larkin, and the British poets who were imported through that important anthology put together by Alvarez - and those would include Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes. And I think these poets gave me assurance that there were other ways to write besides the rather involuted style of high modernism whose high priests were Pound, Eliot and Stevens, and Crane perhaps.

Billy Collins

I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly the pattern of weird poetry.

Billy Corgan

When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.

Boy George

Voting for New Labour is like helping an old lady across the road while screaming 'Get a move on!' Even the Tories, who you could once rely on to be completely heartless are pretending to care.

Bode Miller

I still love racing and the challenge of it, but at some point, you get to a place where you're perfectly happy moving on and doing other stuff.

Bodhidharma

Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will.

Bodhidharma

But this mind isn't somewhere outside the material body of the four elements. Without this mind we can't move. The body has no awareness. Like a plant or a stone, the body has no nature. So how does it move? It's the mind that moves.

Bobby Fischer

All that matters on the Chessboard is good moves

Bobby Fischer

My sister bought me a set at a candy store and taught me the moves.

Bobby Fischer

You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances

Bobby Fischer

My opponents make good moves too. Sometimes I don't take these things into consideration

Bobby Fischer

I studied that first Karpov-Kasparov match for a year and a half before I cracked it, what they were doing, and discovered that it was all prearranged move-by-move. There's no doubt of it in my mind.

Bobby Fischer

I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves

Bruce Friedrich

The point at which society moves towards our views is a point where we are significantly closer to the vegan world that we are all working toward.

Bruce Friedrich

I'm convinced that welfare reforms deserve our support, both because they are better (or at least much less bad) for the animals involved (the Golden Rule), and because they push the envelope, moving us closer to the compassionate world that all animal rights activists are working toward...On the other hand, working toward welfare reforms has the immediate benefit of helping improve animals' lives today and acts as a crucial stepping stone toward animal liberation.

Bruce Friedrich

Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape such fires, since their senses of smell, wariness of such dangers, and ability to move through almost invisible holes is so impressive, but I think that we should not dismiss the possibility that they, also, will be harmed. These reflections do not, of course, rule out burning meat trucks. And they don't mean that when the next slaughterhouse or vivisection lab burns down, I will denounce those who carried out the burning, or that I will feel anything other than joy in my heart ...

Bruce Forsyth

If I couldn't move, I don't know what I would do. That would be terrifying for me; I don't know how I'd cope with that.

Bridget Riley

The eye can travel over the surface in a way parallel to the way it moves over nature. It should feel caressed and soothed, experience frictions and ruptures, glide and drift. One moment, there will be nothing to look at and the next second the canvas seems to refill, to be crowded with visual events.

Bridget Riley

It is important that the painting can be inhabited, so that the mind's eye, or the eye's mind, can move about it credibly.

Brigitte Bardot

Unfortunately, I am not like a snail or a turtle, and I can't take my houses with me when I move.

Brian Mulroney

I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment.

Brendan Gleeson

We're getting the blues about having to walk away from this whole thing. We enjoyed it a lot and it all felt good. We had a good experience on it. We thought we could do good work together. And it is unusual to get the next one, straight off the bed. John is funny. When he gets moving, he moves pretty quickly.

Everything that these folks are saying that they're trying to move away from, like comparison, perfectionism, judgement, and exhaustion as a status symbol - that all describes my life. It was more like a medical researcher studying a disease and figuring out he or she has it.

If we can’t stand up to the never good enough and who do you think you are? we can’t move forward.

Branford Marsalis

If youre going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If youre going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation thats based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, youre down to about 10 people or so.

Brad Stevens

As a coach I think that's one of the things we have to exude: the ability to move on regardless of the result.

Brad Thor

I like books that have razor-sharp plotting that snaps and moves along. It's not about the main character being different at the end. I don't want my main character to be different in the end. I still want him committed to his ideas, to be steadfast, true and loyal

Bonnie Jo Campbell

I figure that I'm always going to be fine, one way or another, but I do worry about other people who have difficulty moving from one world to the next. It's the folks who are truly invested in their lives who have the hardest time with change.

Bobby Farrelly

I think that's the key to being a director: to be able to get the shot and move on quickly.

Barbara Boxer

The difference between the very wealthy and the working poor has grown. We raise that minimum wage and we move forward with the vision of this president that we have, which is everyone pays their fair share.

Artur Davis

This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.

Arthur Symons

Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move.