Quotes about thin
thinking macs
Bernie Mac just says what you think but are afraid to say. Bernie Mac
thinking black littles
Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.
thinking israel decision
[The decision to travel to Washington and deliver the speech] has injected a degree of partisanship, which is not only unfortunate, I think it's destructive of the fabric of the relationship Benjamin Netanyahu
thinking israel giving
The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in the United Nations is to get a state without giving Israel peace or giving Israel peace and security. And I think that's, that's wrong. That should not succeed. That should, that should fail.
thinking two states
I think that peace will require two states, a Palestinian state that recognizes the Jewish state.
thinking might might-have-been
I don't think anything might have been. What is, is. Edward Gorey
thinking past iceland
Neither mine nor other people's prospects seem particularly pleasing just at the moment, and I have fantasies of going to Iceland, never to return. As it is, I tell myself not to remember the past, not to hope or fear for the future, and not to think in the present, a comprehensive program that will undoubtedly have very little success.
thinking world life-is
My mission in life is to make everybody as uneasy as possible. I think we should all be as uneasy as possible, because that's what the world is like.
thinking white zinc
I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking. Edward Hopper
thinking hands office
I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is. Edward James Olmos
thinking lyric-poetry mortality
I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality. Edward Hirsch
thinking media risk
I think poetry will survive and I don't think it will be the end of poetry. Our tremendous onslaught of mass media all the time that we're suffering and we don't really know how to think about, I think that puts certain things at risk.
thinking demand doe
I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language.
thinking order space
It does demand a certain space in order to read it and I think that space is somewhat threatened by the lack of attention that people have and the amount of time that they give to things.
thinking worry people
I just think that limits the kinds of experiences that people can have with poetry. But, poetry will survive; I don't worry about that. But, I do think that it may save fewer souls if people can't pay attention.
thinking america risk
The attention deficit disorder of the culture is very distressing in America now and I think it puts a lot of things at risk, not just poetry.
thinking lyric-poetry ideas
I have the idea that lyric poetry is a poetry that's driven by a sense of the presence of death. That there's something unbearable about the fact that we're going to die and that we can't stand it and I think you find that out in childhood and you don't really - at least I found it out in childhood and I found it hard to get over.
thinking agony midlife
I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there's the wild, exuberance of youth, there's the painful agony of midlife experience, there's the late poetry in the presence of death.
thinking firsts noble
First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.
thinking long poet
I think that as long as you have other poets before you and that you can learn from them, then it's always open ended for you.
thinking trying lasts
We're trying to make something that lasts in language and there's no question that many fiction writers began as poets and it's hard for me to think of any good fiction writers who don't also read poetry.
thinking grandpa grandfather
Then I found another one, grandpa's poem. It turned out it had been written by Emily Brontë and it wasn't my grandfather's poem at all, although my response to it, I think, was pretty much the same, I just had the author wrong.
thinking television wells
I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.
thinking connections needs
I think that's a connection that you can only hope for. It's not something that you can make because it needs someone else.
thinking use fiction
I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.
thinking two together
But, something has to be worked through formally as well as emotionally. Now, when those two things come together I've got something, I think, that I can be proud of.
thinking tempest young
It's hard to think that say Shakespeare could have written "The Tempest" when he was young. It seems to be reflective work or retrospective work.
thinking giving greek
Aristotle's opinion... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy lay altogether neglected; since none could think it worthwhile to observe, and to give an account of the wandering and uncertain paths of vapours floating in the Ether. Edmond Halley
thinking dying ugly
I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly ... Edith Piaf
thinking clothes way
Clothes are the way you present yourself to the world; they affect the way the world feels and thinks about you; subconsciously they affect the way you feel and think about yourself. Edith Head
thinking greed poetry
I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable. Edith Sitwell
thinking frustration envy
When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.
thinking sea safe
Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but an uncharted voyage on the seas. Edith Wharton