Jack Gilbert Quotes

We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at what the wood harbors, and the wood gives itself away to that intimacy, the manner in which we and the world meet each new day.

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• I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Song
  • Hand
  • Gold

• It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • World
  • Love

• You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Up
  • You
  • Without

• It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

  

  Carl T. Rowan
  • World
  • Home
  • Injustice

• I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Trying
  • Happy
  • Guy

• An ounce of performance is worth pounds of promises.

  

  Mae West
  • Performance
  • Worth
  • Promises

• I rarely think about myself that much. I really don't.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Really

• I often feel like not writing! Sometimes I overcome it by just sitting there until writing happens. Sometimes I don't write, because books often need periods of percolation.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Writing
  • Sometimes
  • Feel

• The bad boy: always more fun.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Boy

• Normally in dangerous situations I have a getaway car.

  

  Sacha Baron Cohen
  • Car
  • Dangerous
  • Situations

• I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Inspired

• I want people to be able to give their voice.

  

  Sam Graves
  • People
  • Want
  • Voice

• Family responsibility, yes, and always. Family bankruptcy due to the cruel rules of government, no.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Family
  • Responsibility

• As long as I can contribute, I'll continue working.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Long
  • Working
  • I Can

• When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Woman

• I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Football

• I feel whatever an actor does on screen is something the actor 'does,' and what the director can do is to tell, talk or instruct. So, all the credit for an actor's performance goes to the actor alone.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Alone
  • Performance
  • Credit

• I think, specifically with the horror genre, you have to make it very believable because it can come across ridiculous.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Think
  • You
  • Ridiculous

• I rewrote the ending of 'Farewell to Arms' 39 times before I was satisfied.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Arms
  • Satisfied

• We never took a vote in the Cabinet that I can remember and the most important of all the Prime Minister's functions is to give a firm lead in Cabinet so that decisions can be taken quickly. The Prime Minister musn't always listen to those who talk most.

  

  Clement Attlee
  • Important
  • Remember
  • Taken

• But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human.

  

  Caitlin Moran

• Those who walk in the Way should avoid sensualism as those who carry hay would avoid coming near the fire.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Way
  • Fire
  • Sensualism

• The cozy fire is bright and gay, The merry kettle boils away and hums a cheerful song. I sing the saucer and the cup; Pray, Mary, fill the teapot up, And do not make it strong.

  

  Barry Pain
  • Song
  • Fire
  • Pray

• We think the fire eats the wood. We are wrong. The wood reaches out to the flame. The fire licks at what the wood harbors, and the wood gives itself away to that intimacy, the manner in which we and the world meet each new day.

  

  Jack Gilbert
  • Fire
  • Wood
  • Harbors