Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Gorey

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.

Edward Hopper

I think that zinc white has a property of scaling and cracking.

Edward James Olmos

I'm not prepared for holding office any more than I think Arnold is.

Edward Hirsch

I think it's one of the things that drive lyric poetry, our sense of mortality.

Edward Hirsch

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.

Edward Hirsch

I don't think poetry will die, but I think that poetry does demand a certain kind of attention to language.

Edward Hirsch

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.

Edward Hirsch

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.

Edward Hirsch

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.

Edward Hirsch

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.

Edward Hirsch

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.

Edward Hirsch

First of all I think that poetry is very noble and I always have with me the sense of the nobility of poetry.

Edward Hirsch

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.

Edward Hirsch

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.

Edward Hirsch

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.

Edward Hirsch

I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.

Edward Hirsch

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.

Edward Hirsch

I think fiction goes to poetry for the intensity of its use of language.

Edward Hirsch

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.

Edward Hirsch

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.

Edmond Halley

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.

Edith Piaf

I want to die young. I think it's awful to get old, and sickness is ugly ...

Edith Head

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 Sitwell

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

Edith Sitwell

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.

Edith Wharton

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

I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession.

Edith Wharton

My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified here, and I am not enough in sympathy with our gross public to make up for the lack on the aesthetic side. One's friends are delightful; but we are none of us Americans, we don't think or feel as the Americans do, we are the wretched exotics produced in a European glass-house, the most displaced and useless class on earth!

Edith Wharton

Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words ...

Eddie Huang

People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.

Eddie Martinez

You're not as good as you think you are.

Eddie Marsan

I was approached to do something for seven years, and it was a quality project. I did seriously think about it, but I didn't want to be away for six months of the year. I've never done the L.A. thing where you go and have loads of meetings; I can't say to my wife, 'I'm going to wait by a pool for six months.'

Eddie Marsan

I used to do a lot of comedy. I don't know what happened. I think it's my face.