Famous Quotes & Sayings

Philippe Petit

If I have to make a self-portrait, I would put poetry and rebellion on the list. To be able to walk on a wire, to be able to juggle six hoops, you need focus, another word for tenacity, which is passion.

Larry Moses

We juggle our schedules to make it happen. ... It's a full-time passion, but it's a part-time job.

Rose McIver

I think if I manage to juggle a personal life that I'm really happy with as well, as long as I manage to maintain balance, that's kind of the mark of success to me.

Felipe Alou

It will make it tough for me to juggle Felíz and Alfonzo.

Josh Krulewitz

There's a lot to juggle and various scenarios are being explored, if needed.

Lucy Hale

I'm a really good juggler.

Octavio Paz

Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Octavio Paz

Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?

Phoebe Snow

Back then, I was an acoustically-oriented artist. Honestly, 'Poetry Man' wouldn't have been my first choice.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry takes place in time. It is a durational. Things take place in sequence.

Dave Evans

Poetry should be for the people. It always has been, ... Ted writes poetry for the people.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry itself hasn't been well served by poets who fled to the margins.

Robert Pinsky

Poetry is not easy. Or should I say, real poetry is not easy.

Edward Hirsch

Poetry is a vocation. It is not a career but a calling.

Juan Felipe Herrera

Poetry is a call to action, and it also is action.

Albert Camus

With rebellion, awareness is born

Andy Stanley

Rebellion never goes without consequences.

H. Rap Brown

Individuals do not create rebellions; conditions do.

Henry David Thoreau

What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?

Francis Bacon

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

George Eliot

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

Henry David Thoreau

if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?

Milan Kundera

Beauty is a rebellion against time.

Pete Wentz

When I said that I make out with dudes, there was a slight sense of sexual rebellion in that. And I probably even made it a bigger deal than it was.

Bertrand Russell

Only six need be attempted.

Olivia Newton-John

I'm a very light sleeper. I get about six hours a night.

Jessica Williams

I'm six feet tall. No one realizes that because on 'The Daily Show' I'm usually sitting.

John Danowski

We are now the hunted. It wasn't like this six weeks ago.

Mike Shanahan

I think if you take a look at any of the six teams, any of those six teams could go all the way.

Allen Smith

We're not talking about something that will be in and out of here in six hours.

Paula Abdul

I wish we could have more than six (guys).

Jeff Wagner

He never sold anything for us. He was a distributor for us for six months.

Paul Johnson

I'd like to get one win, ... I'm not thinking about getting six wins.

Yotam Ottolenghi

The most important thing for me is to walk the little alleys of the city, to find the little alcove where someone is cooking something, and just watch them do it. That's my idea of fun.

Cecelia Ahern

Alone or not, you gotta walk forward.

Tony DeFrancesco

You just can't go out there and walk 12 guys. That is not the way to win.

Kathleen Farrell

I thought I was going to just walk in and walk out.

Richard Crashaw

Two walking baths; two weeping motions;/ Portable, and compendious oceans.

Harvey Korman

And I went to New York and died; for 10 years I walked those pavements. I can't think of New York without feeling uncomfortable and feeling like a failure.

Ray Brown

He walked into the storm. He's probably dead.

Pamela Dixon

He walked in just like us and walked out like a high-powered attorney.

David Hampton

He was walking with no problem. I was very surprised,

Mike Johnson

We've done an hour-and 15-minute workouts and not said a word to each other.

Shizuka Arakawa

I'm so surprised. I can't find the words for it.

Irina Slutskaya

I'm so surprised, and I can't find any words for it.

Matt Silverman

When you see the word devil, you think evil.

Source Unknown

Never use big words where a diminutive one will suffice.

Philippe Petit

On one day of the week, I relax - which is not true, I work furiously on other things. 'Relax' is not a word to me.

Ron Moody

He was such a professional. ... He was always word perfect.

Bruce Bennett

He was a wordsmith. A blacksmith works with metal, he worked with words.

Horace Engdahl

He did not say many words. He was very happy.