Famous Quotes & Sayings

Craig Barlow

I wouldn't play it any differently if I had to do it again, ... I'm sure we looked like fools down there, but if I had to do it all over again, I would have aimed at the same target.

Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree Poems are made by fools like me, But only God can make a tree

Rig Veda

It is impossible for the fools to tread the path of learned ones.

Lord Chesterfield

Idleness is the only refuge of weak minds, and the holiday of fools

Anthony Hsieh

If you own your own home free and clear, people will often refer to you as a fool. All that money sitting there, doing nothing.

Doris Lessing

In the university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools

Norwegian Proverb

If there were no fools, how would we recognize the wise

The Talmud

If silence be good for the wise, how much better for fools

Lauren Conrad

I was like, 'Oh, my God! Ashlee Simpson's here!' ... I was freaking out, pretending like I didn't see her. Then Ashlee Simpson walked right up to me and was like, 'L.C., love your show! I watch it every week with my friends!'

Lauren Conrad

I was like, 'Oh, my God! Ashlee Simpson's here!

David Piercy

I was like, gosh, because knowing my luck this would happen. I guess God works in mysterious ways, and we'll see where he takes me.

Michele Perry

I was like a little kid because I said, 'Oh my God it's Jackie Joyner-Kersee!' ... I had never seen her in person. I only saw her on TV. I was kind of star struck.

D. James

I was led by God to do this.

Joey Skaggs

King of the world wouldn't be enough. I'd have to be god of the universe (the Wizard of Oz would suffice).

Lao Tzu

Know they thyself, presume not God to scan. The proper study of mankind is man.

Robin Wright

Just lying in my big bed with Frette sheets. Oh my god, there's nothing better.

Benjamin Franklin

Keep thou from the Opportunity, and God will keep thee from the Sin.

Simon Crisford

He's a lovely colt. He hasn't worked yet. Hopefully, he'll be out in the middle of the summer.

Alexander Hanson

I was born in Oslo, Norway, but now live in the suburbs of Southwest London, right near the River Thames. It's a lovely part of the world.

Michael Sheard

He was scary but as an actor Mr Bronson was a lovely part to play,

S. Hughes

He is a lovely lad. He just has to get used to the hurly burly of it.

Richard Barnfield

If it be sin to love a lovely lad Oh there sin I.

William Maxwell

It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about.

Roald Dahl

What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!

Sara Teasdale

look for a lovely thing and you will find it, it is not far, it never will be far

Sanjay Dutt

The film industry is a lovely family and I respect it.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

The first poem I ever wrote was terrible,

Roger McGuinn

Once in a while and really the exception, will be when I have an idea, then I'll write a poem first and then write a tune to the poem.

John Barton

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

James Welch

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.

Mandy Smoker

I'm always writing tidbits of poems here and there. I'm still writing, just not as much.

Mary Tavenner

She was a peacemaker. Her poems are always uplifting.

Tyler Johnson

I think she interpreted her poems very well.

Mary Tavenner

We don't compare. It's not my poem is better than yours. We're like a chorus. Some sing alto, some sing baritone, some sing bass.

Octavio Paz

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

John Barton

To me many short poems read and write like beginnings that simply whet my appetite; I want to get over that.

James Welch

The title of the poems was The Only Bar in Dixon. We sent it out to The New Yorker on a fluke, and they took them and printed all three in the same issue.

Mandy Smoker

I'm always writing tidbits of poems here and there. I'm still writing, just not as much.

Mary Tavenner

She was a peacemaker. Her poems are always uplifting.

Tyler Johnson

I think she interpreted her poems very well.

Octavio Paz

All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.

Billy Collins

Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.

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.

Sophie Hannah

All through childhood, I wrote verses and mysteries. There is, for me, one connection: structure. My poetry is metrical, rhyming.

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!").

Umberto Eco

Stopgaps do belong to the internal economy of the form, since the Whole requires them, even if only in a subordinate position ... The stopgap Luigi Paryson's 'zeppa' accepts its own banality, because without the speed that the banal allows up, it would slow up a passage that is crucial for the outcome of the work and its interpretation.

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.

Teresa Williams

What do you think, Bob, shall we keep her?

Bulgarian Proverb

If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water

Bible Bible

And take with thee ten loaves, and cracknels, and a cruse of honey, and go to him: he shall tell thee what shall become of the child.

William Shakespeare

All these woes shall serveFor sweet discourses in our time to come.

Jonathan Woodgate

You think to yourself, 'Shall I go there? Shall I do this? Did I used to do that?' It's tough, psychologically as well, when you've been out for a while, you've got to think more. Hopefully, it's starting to come back.

Gayle Korczyk

It is was a "GOD MOMENT" that I shall never forget.

Bible Bible

And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.

Donald Hall

now i have time to do stuff, and do stuff i shall do!

Voltaire

say, "Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you

Capt. McDonough

It could have been worse if the tree hadn't been watered.

Anton LaVey

Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.

Richard Baxter

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

Rick Riordan

How old is she now?" he asked. "Hard to say. She was a tree for a while. Now she's immortal.

William McDonough

Carbon in your body - that's good thing. In a tree, it's good. In the atmosphere, it's a bad. Nature wants to sequester carbon in biota. And when we burn it, we release it. It's the wrong system.

William McDonough

The eco-effective future of industry is a world of abundance that celebrates the use and consumption of products and materials that are, in effect, nutritious - as safe, effective, and delightful as a cherry tree.

Woodrow Wilson

Energy in a nation is like sap in a tree; it rises from bottom up.

Woodrow Wilson

You cannot tear up ancient rootages and safely plant the tree of liberty in soil that is not native to it.

William Wordsworth

A brotherhood of venerable trees.