Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Zoltak

Reading the language in some of the recent filings, it seems very personal.

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.

Douglas William Jerrold

The language of women should be luminous, but not voluminous.

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.

Alphonse Lamartine

Sad is the lot, who, once at least in his life, had not been a poet

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.

R. Robinson

The burden of this crisis cannot be borne by workers and retirees alone.

Fred Astaire

People think I was born in top hat and tail

Jane Goodall

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

Teresita Sy-Coson

I was just born into a business family. It is really a destiny.

Alanis Morissette

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s.

Tom Shales

Tom Snyder was born to broadcast. He loved television and it loved him back. In that, he was a member of a vanishing breed, especially as narrowcasting displaces broadcasting, 'online' replaces 'on the air,' and any Tom, Dick or Mary can be monarch of a desktop domain, uplinking themselves to satellites in space.

America Ferrera

When my mother was born on 14 April, he named her after a Latin American holiday, the Day of Americas, that nobody knew about. My due date also happened to be 14 April.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be ever a child. For what is man's lifetime unless the memory of past events is woven with those of earlier times?

Tim O'Brien

Vietnam was the defining event for my generation. It spilled over into all facets of American life - into music, into the pulpits, in churches of our country. It spilled over into the city streets, police forces. And even if you were born late in the generation, Vietnam was still part of your childhood.