Famous Quotes & Sayings

Claudia Rankine

It always surprises me when people say that the realm of the lyric is the personal, and the personal is not political. I just don't know how we can get to 2014 and say that with a straight face. When you think of a poet like Yeats, how can you say politics is not in the poem? When you think of Milosz, how can you say politics is not in the poem?

Van Morrison

There's no difference between lyrics and poetry. Words are words. The only difference is the people who are in academic positions and call themselves poets and have an academic stance. They've got something to lose if they say it's all poetry; if there's not music to it, and you have to wear a certain kind of checkered shirt or something like that. It's all the same. Lyrics are lyrics, poetry is poetry, lyrics are poetry, and poetry is lyrics. They are interchangeable to me.

Elizabeth Banks

I only know the lyrics to songs that I listened to between the ages of 11 and 15.

Adam Levine

All I needed to do was sing the lyrics that had already been written. I don't know those guys; they seem kind of kooky and crazy. I like their vibe.

Lorde

It must have been when I was 14 or 15 that I started tentatively writing songs and was able to convey an emotion and a lyric with what I wanted to say.

Victoria Beckham

We've still got the melodies, we've still got the nice 'strong girl' lyrics going on.

Joe Johnson

Back then ... if you wanted the lyrics to a song you had to play it on the record and stop it, and then write it down, then play it again, then stop it,

Emmylou Harris

I have to have a guitar sitting around. I sing in the shower. I sing around the house. The music comes secondary. The lyrics come first.

Boris Pasternak

It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.

Jeff Palmer

Just watching the news, seeing what those people are going through, touches me,

Joe Horn

Just to make those people happy, it's all worthwhile.

Spencer Kayden

I surround myself with people I admire and respect. I have never tried to make anything happen. I don't know how long 'Urinetown' will run on Broadway, and I find myself strangely unconcerned about it.

MC Hammer

I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek.

Dave Breitenfeld

I think, in general, most people in the public don't know what we do.

Nastassja Kinski

Just now, I've been working all the time and I don't have much of a personal life.

Roger Lemerre

It is not a personal thing for me, it is a voyage for the Tunisian team and people.

Dan Bartlett

He doesn't have a personal relationship with him.

Rob Zombie

The studio experience fluctuates depending on who you work with, it's not like it's all one experience. Every studio is different, every producer's personality is different. You never know what you're going to do.

Tucker Max

This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have a slightly volatile personality. I don’t suffer fools well.

Tullian Tchividjian

An identity based in the one-way love of God does not take into account public opinion or, thankfully, even personal opinion.

Willa Cather

William Tavener never heeded ominous forecasts in the domestic horizon, and he never looked for a storm until it broke.

Will Smith

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

Vivienne Westwood

If you dress up, it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well.

Tony Buzan

In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.

Chang-Rae Lee

I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry.

Umberto Eco

For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!").

William Wordsworth

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

William Wordsworth

Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.

William Wordsworth

Poetry has never brought me in enough money to buy shoestrings.

William Wordsworth

Poetry is the outcome of emotions recollected in tranquility.

William Shenstone

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.

William Shenstone

Every good poet includes a critic, but the reverse is not true.

Richard J. Roberts

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

Robin Wright

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Robert Cray

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Ricardo Semler

It is not socialist, as some of our critics contend. It isn't purely capitalist, either. It is a new way. A third way. A more humane, trusting, productive, exhilarating, and, in every sense, rewarding way.

Tupac Shakur

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.

Tupac Shakur

Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.

Tupac Shakur

I'm on my knees begging, please come and save me.

David Frank

Nothing's out of the realm of possibility right now.

Neil Harris

It's different, but within the realm of the sitcom still,

Ellen Hopkins

In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.

Edmund Hillary

I am inclined to think that the realm of mythology is where the Yeti rightly belongs.

David Bowie

I find only freedom in the realms of eccentricity...

Hanna Rosin

Women have a tendency not to give up realms once they take over new ones. We are still proprietary over the domestic realm even as we take over new professional realms, and that is a real problem.

Anne Bishop

I'm not sure I could write a straight urban fantasy any more than I could write a straight contemporary story. I would end up being intimidated by all the small details.

Sienna Miller

I'm going straight to my mum's place. There's nothing going on between me and Daniel. We were in a movie together two years ago.

Nate Parker

When you're in a relationship with someone you have to be in control of that relationship and you have to be as open as you can about everything, straight up, out the gate.

Mike Connors

It went pretty much straight into the ground.

Ron Polk

A lot of things need to go right to win 14 straight times. But I think a lot of it isn't because we've been lucky. A lot of it has been because we've been pretty good.

Paul Duca

For April, it's as big as it's going to get. You have to dethrone those guys. They're the team to beat. They've been there 13, 14 straight years now. So this is big. Take them any way you can get them.

John Goebel

There?s been a lot of misinformation and we want to get a straight story to people.

Cheyenne Jackson

Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

Carol Berg

Write. Write. Write. Learn how to revise. No story is perfect straight from the keyboard.

Peter Gade

Anyway, in the new system, many surprises could happen.

Franz Beckenbauer

It only surprises me that no one thought of it before.

Ben Nelson

We are at that time of year where we have surprises with the strengthening of storms.

John Fischer

There's nothing really going on right now. I don't really understand these jumps. It surprises me the way it's been fluctuating.

Patrick McDonald

What surprises me is (residents) want everything for nothing.

Frank Morgan

Certainly, as expected, there were no real surprises here.

Jeff Graff

I don't think there's going to be a lot of surprises in the quarter.

Billy Donovan

I don't think anything surprises at least me any more in this tournament.

Arun Sarin

Those were the big surprises for our shareholders,