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.

William Faulkner

The poets are almost always wrong about the facts. That's because they're not interested in the facts, only the truth.

Wilfred Owen

All a poet can do today is warn.

Washington Irving

Poetry is evidently a contagious complaint.

Libba Bray

Warning: If you are insufferable, do not walk here. We shall eat you down to the marrow.

Rachel Caine

Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death.

Bill McKibben

We've been given a warning by science, and a wake-up call by nature; it is up to us now to heed them.

Chelsea Handler

There are no warning signs on the trampoline. The warning is the trampoline.

Jamie Zawinski

My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.

Tony Robbins

Everybody's life is either a warning or an example. You've got to decide what you're gonna be and you have to draw a line in the sand.

Steven Biko

Any warning normally implies, even if it is tacit, that there should be changes

Tim O'Brien

Why do our politicians put warnings on cigarette packs and not on their own foreheads?

Michelle Paver

Sometimes there's no warning. Nothing at all.

James Park

Today is a very directionless market, ... It is really quiet. There's not much going on.

Donald Tusk

Today I must tell myself I did not make it.

Jim Haslett

Today he's sore, so he didn't practice. He'll be fine. He'll play.

Tony Franklin

I thought we got a lot done offensively. Omar showed today why he has become the top quarterback.

Rachel Kyono

I think that I wouldn't be where I am today without going through the program.

Graeme Smith

He had a re-scan today and it doesn't look good. It would pretty much look like he's going home.

Roberto Bolano

Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Do not measure success by today's harvest. Measure success by the seeds you plant today.

Walt Disney

Today we are shapers of the world of tomorrow.