Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Everett

You shall not pile, with servile toil, Your monuments upon my breast, Nor yet within the common soil Lay down the wreck of power to rest . . .

Bo Bice

My lifes a wreck, and I love it.

David Bowie

It's a compulsive need to wreck everything. You might notice there's a pattern of stripping down and building back up again throughout my life. But I guess that's how some of us conduct our lives.

Donald Trump

[Ted] Cruz is going down. He looks like a nervous wreck.

Clarence Darrow

Inside every lawyer is the wreck of a poet.

Corey Haim

I started on the downers which were a hell of a lot better than the uppers because I was a nervous wreck.

Roger Staubach

As a part owner, I'm going to be not only an admirer... but a nervous wreck.

Steven Morrissey

I have found the best way to avoid ending your life as a bitter wreck is to start out as one.

Sun Tzu

Weak leadership can wreck the soundest strategy

Charles Stross

Lawyers do not mix with diplomacy.

William Shakespeare

Let us kill all lawyers

Charles Hamilton Houston

A lawyer is either a social engineer or he is a parasite on society.

Jonathan Todd

Whether or not the new transaction will have to be re-notified will be something that the parties and the lawyers of the parties will have to study very carefully. If, for example, it is a different type of transaction it might have to be re-notified.

Angela King

Women were professors, lawyers and judges. They were journalists, writers and poets.

Tom Waits

and I have lawyers over there investigating my options.

Jeff Fisher

There isn't a lawyer in this town who didn't learn something from Ronnie.

Kent Schaffer

This is where we'll see what the lawyers really get paid to do.

David Shapiro

I'm better at being a lawyer than I am at being a writer.

Charles Dickens

Why then we should drop into poetry.

Edward Hirsch

Readers bring their own experiences, their own range of - their own wisdom, their own knowledge, their own insights to poem and the meaning of a poem takes place in the negotiation between the poet, the poem and the reader.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it.

Edward Hirsch

There has never been a great poet who wasn't also a great reader of poetry.

Edith Sitwell

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

Diablo Cody

Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The poet should size the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal

Eugenio Montale

The poet does not know and often will never know his true receiver.

C. S. Lewis

Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme.