Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Connolly

Politically correct is the language of cowardice.

David Hamilton

Everyone wants to do the right thing and meet the spirit of the legislation. The language now leaves so much up to each municipality. We need a cohesive plan that addresses everyone.

Stephane Mallarme

To give a purer sense to the language of the tribe.

Czeslaw Milosz

Language is the only homeland.

Conrad Hall

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

Confucius

In language clarity is everything.

Roland Barthes

Tout refus du langage est une mort. Any refusal of language is a death.

Stephen Sondheim

Lyrics have to be underwritten. That's why poets generally make poor lyric writers because the language is too rich. You get drowned in it.

Stephen Sondheim

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

Wilfred Owen

All a poet can do today is warn. That is why the truest poets must be truthful.

Edward Young

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Elbert Hubbard

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

Anna Jameson

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

E. B. White

A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

Allen Tate

Poets are mysterious, but a poet when all is said is not much more mysterious than a banker.

Alexander Pope

For what I have publish'd, I can only hope to be pardon'd; but for what I have burned, I deserve to be prais'd.

Christopher Morley

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

Anne Sexton

My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.

Jamie Redknapp

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

But you can love more than just one person, can't you?

Felix Baumgartner

I'm more a competitive person.

Sarah Paulson

I am a person who is not mated.

Kirsten Dunst

I'm not a very 'this is planned out' person when I get to set. 'This is how I'm going to do it' - I'm never like that.

Marc Almond

I've always been the sort of person who immerses myself in things, and eventually you become part of that life.

Martin Buber

Through the Thou a person becomes I.

Quintilian

A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person

John Cusack

I was never interested in being an overly public person.