Jack Gilbert Quotes
I ask myself what is the sound of women? What is the word for that still thing I have hunted inside them for so long? Deep inside the avalanche of joy, the thing deeper in the dark, and deeper still in the bed where we are lost. Deeper, deeper down where a woman's heart is holding its breath, where something very far away in that body is becoming something we don't have a name for.
Jack Gilbert
Quotes to Explore
I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.
Gary Bauer
But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.
Yo-Yo Ma
The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
Oliver Tambo
No other date on the calendar more potently symbolizes all that our nation stands for than the Fourth of July.
Mac Thornberry
Creative people are more prone to depression.
Adam Ant
Adam and the Ants
What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
Eddie Albert
As long as my sixth graders showed an average improvement of five years, the principal and district pretty much left me alone to create my own curriculum and teach whatever I wanted.
Dan Simmons
Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
Aaron Neville
I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
Francesca Annis
Being black, Latino, or Asian is not a genre. Romantic comedies, thrillers, action - those are genres. I think there's a lot of people who want to have the conversation. I don't think people are afraid of it, I just think it's the time to have that conversation. Race is not a genre.
Mara Brock Akil
The third fallacy is that affirmative action doesn't work.
Harold Washington