Charles Simic Quotes

Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

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• I'm a freestyle creative entrepreneur. Not a businessman. I like to create ventures in which creativity stands at the centre.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Creativity
  • Creative
  • Create

• Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Memorial
  • Parties
  • Cocktail

• The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • World
  • Experience

• Hugo Boss is my kind of label.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Kind
  • Boss
  • Hugo

• Something funny certainly happens when palladium and platinum come into contact with hydrogen gas; it's one of the great mysteries still waiting to be solved on the periodic table. But it's quite a leap from 'something funny' to cold fusion.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Waiting

• I wish I was a little more gregarious and outgoing.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Wish
  • More
  • I Wish

• I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• In a perfect world, I would be a painter. I love working with my hands. I don't get to do it as much as I like, but I am finding a way to make more time as life goes on because it's a really great outlet for me to express myself.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• Siva is one of the best writers in the industry, and 'Srimanthudu' is a great script.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Great
  • Best
  • Industry

• I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • People
  • World
  • Think

• The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Hand
  • Eye
  • Bored

• The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Song
  • Inspiration
  • Process

• A vile and overbearing temper becomes sometimes, in one long accustomed to the exercise of power, unendurable to those who are subject to its humors.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • Long
  • Power
  • Sometimes

• When you're putting together a campaign for president, like I've been, that entails a lot of time. It's not like I've been at the beach sipping a pina colada.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Time
  • Together
  • Beach

• Sharing the stage while singing my songs was a bit of a daunting prospect.

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Singing
  • Stage
  • Sharing

• You are not condemned for anything, but you are also not excused from anything. See these two ideas together at the same time, and a powerful third force for self-awakening is created.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Time
  • Together
  • Powerful

• The president said some words, like nouns and verbs. 15

  

  Ze Frank
  • Words

• The wise will determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Power
  • High
  • Wise

• …enjoyed Dravidian transports.

  

  Anthony Burgess

• We can speak of trauma when that system fails: when you beg for your life, but the assailant ignores your pleas; when you are a terrified child lying in bed, hearing your mother scream as her boyfriend beats her up; when you see your buddy trapped under a piece of metal that you’re not strong enough to lift; when you want to push away the priest who is abusing you, but you’re afraid you’ll be punished. Immobilization is at the root of most traumas. When that occurs the DVC is likely to take over: Your heart slows down, your breathing becomes shallow, and, zombielike, you lose touch with yourself and your surroundings. You dissociate, faint and collapse.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Heart
  • Trauma
  • Fails

• Why did I choose Washington among offers from other cities? Because it is the capital of the world.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • World
  • Why
  • Choose

• In the sense that people who produce things and work get rewarded, statistically. You don't get rewarded precisely for your effort, but in Russia you got rewarded for being alive, but not very well rewarded.

  

  Esther Dyson
  • Sense
  • Russia
  • Rewarded

• It doesn't matter that I didn't win a trophy because I did it my way and I lived the dream.

  

  Alan Shearer
  • Dream

• Wanted: a needle swift enough to sew this poem into a blanket.

  

  Charles Simic