Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jethro Tull

The poet lifts his pen as the soldier sheaths his sword.

Rosemary Mahoney

There's as much revealed in the way a person lifts a glass as in what they say about some political issue.

Lindy Ruff

I think it would've been a very big disappointment if we didn't win. You don't know what (a loss) would've done to the psyche of a young team. But to win, that lifts everybody.

Sherman Yellen

The people there truly love musicals. They have a passion for them that lifts everyone's spirits.

Chinua Achebe

A pen on paper is the ideal way for me. I am not really very comfortable with machines; I never learned to type very well.

Muriel Rukeyser

In our period, they say there is free speech. They say there is no penalty for poets, There is no penalty for writing poems. They say this. This is the penalty.

Eric Epstein

We've all got to play by the same rules, and I think the senator wants to tilt the playing field. And I think what he did (with respect to Penn State) is what's wrong with Harrisburg.

Bill Ayers

Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,

Camille Claudel

I am scared; I don't know what is going to happen to me. What was the point of working so hard and of being talented, to be rewarded like this? Never a penny, tormented all my life. It is horrible; one cannot imagine it.

Stu Barnes

Work ethic, turnovers, penalties ... that sums it up.

Benjamin Franklin

...Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion...

Benjamin Franklin

Tis a well spent penny that saves a groat.

Craig Williams

It is whether the penny drops. He's got to where he is on raw ability.

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

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

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.

Charles Simic

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Natasha Trethewey

Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.

Camille Paglia

Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

C. K. Williams

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

We can't separate our humanity from our poetry ...

Charles Schumer

If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say?

Buffalo Bill

The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers.

Cal Thomas

Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

Benjamin Franklin

The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief.

Che Guevara

A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier.

Vincent Brooks

They taught and they trained, and they showed what it meant, really, to be a soldier in the United States,

Wesley Clark

We know we will be able to work this out, as soldiers always do,

Chinese Proverbs

The soldier who retreated 50 paces jeered at the one who retreated 100 paces

MJ Eckert

Sometimes you get a response, but a lot of the soldiers don't respond. I just think they are probably kind of busy.