James Fenton Quotes

Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

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• The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • High
  • Mad
  • Strange

• This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Creative
  • Opportunities

• There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.

  

  Kate Dickie
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • First
  • Special
  • Bar

• I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Think
  • College
  • Better

• There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • God
  • Believe
  • Moments

• In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Art
  • Man
  • Himself

• Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nothing
  • Calmness
  • Aggravating

• Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Love
  • Achieve
  • For Him

• I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Right

• There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Country
  • American
  • Free

• I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Back

• I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.

  

  Zendaya
  • Real
  • Love
  • She

• My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Children

• I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Mom
  • Born
  • I Was Born

• What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Faith
  • Republican
  • Offensive

• I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Up
  • Growing
  • See

• I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

  

  Nate Silver
  • People
  • Think
  • Control

• I know I'm not a self-indulgent idiot; I also know I'm not the second coming of Deepak Chopra. If I had believed either of those, or both, as some people do when they get famous, that's when the mental illness arrives.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • People
  • Famous

• A friend of mine once, when I was 11 years old, mentioned that there was a youth theater, a local amateur youth theater nearby where young people could go every Sunday. And that's where it began, really.

  

  Aneurin Barnard
  • People
  • Friend
  • Sunday

• I loved the time I got to spend in Denver. My boys, Arin and Ryan, were growing up. I got to spend time with them without being pried upon. There was no public scrutiny. I was free and could take them to the supermarket or to the park without being noticed or looked at.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Up
  • Time
  • Free

• Most writers, by the time they're 60, must have revisited their childhood a dozen times.

  

  Kevin Crossley-Holland
  • Time
  • Childhood

• Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

  

  James Fenton
  • Great
  • Poetry