Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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!").

William Wordsworth

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

Wallace Stevens

Poetry is an abstraction bloodied.

Wallace Stevens

All poetry is experimental poetry.

Robert Fitzgerald

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation.

Walt Whitman

At times it has been doubtful to me if Emerson really knows or feels what Poetry is at its highest, as in the Bible, for instance, or Homer or Shakspeare. I see he covertly or plainly likes best superb verbal polish, or something old or odd

Rod McKuen

Poetry is fact given over to imagery.

Herman Edwards

He likes trying to make the big kick,

Kurt Busch

He likes to talk a lot. We like to race.

Priscilla Hill

He likes that they respect the sport there, not like in America, where it's all about football.

Graeme Base

Whether one likes it or not, the screen is a profoundly important source of imagery and storytelling for this generation. For me, books remain a stunning place to tell stories, but the screen has a place.

Ruth Reichl

I think it's hard, when you're someone who likes to please people, as I am, to be a boss. I had to learn how to rein myself in and not terrify people.

Andre Johnson

I think any offensive player likes to touch the ball, ... That's what you're supposed to do.

Buddy Bell

He's come a long way, ... He likes being in that situation.

Sarah Rees Brennan

And about that," he continued. "Now that Kami and I have met, she likes me better than you. So you can leave.

Whitney Houston

Nobody likes to be picked on. Nobody.

Richard Wilbur

Odd that a thing is most itself when likened

Rick Riordan

Americans are an odd bunch, but they grow on you.

Yoko Ono

The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person we meet.

William Petersen

Sure, I always chose rebels to identify with - I still do - but to me a rebel isn't so much someone who breaks the law as someone who goes against the odds.

Libba Bray

I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.

Lynn Shelton

For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity.

Pierre Salinger

The things that stand out are often the oddities.

Evander Holyfield

Odds are just the people opinion. Respect your own opinion.

Pico Iyer

The Australians, it seems to me, thrive on their remoteness from the world and see it as a way of keeping up a code of "No worries, mate," while peddling their oddities to visitors: nonconformity is at once a fact of life for many, and a selling point.