James Schuyler Quotes

However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

James Schuyler

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• I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the paper bag falls off.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Good
  • You
  • Wine

• The Iraqis are not threatened by the Turks or by the Iranians or by the Saudis and they tell me that these are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons of self-destruction.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Me
  • Destruction
  • Weapons

• I love bass, I really do. Bass is ace!

  

  Karen O
  • Really
  • Bass
  • Ace

• I don't know about whether I thought I would make it this big.

  

  Imran Khan
  • Know
  • Thought
  • Big

• Most of the largest software companies in the world today are based on Oracle, and they were once startups.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • World
  • Today
  • Software

• I am not suggesting that just by taking the Metro, I will save billions. But I hope others will follow.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Save
  • Billions
  • Metro

• You always have to be worried about something that is considered a so-called 'scientific theory' that fits every scenario. Climate change, as they've defined it, can never be disproved.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • You
  • Change
  • Climate Change

• There are stereotypes that have been out there for a long time that tell girls that their main asset, the main thing that they are valued for, is their appearance and also that it's to the exclusion of anything else.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Time
  • Long
  • Stereotypes

• I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy or reread - Muriel Spark, Anthony Powell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ruth Rendell, James Ellroy, William McIlvanney, Kate Atkinson, John Burnside, Louise Welsh, Iain Banks.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Think
  • Always
  • Spark

• I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Good
  • Yourself
  • Pressure

• I just want to write a great lyric and write a great song, and everything else is icing on the cake.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Great
  • Song
  • Lyric

• In fact, quantitative findings of any material and energy changes preserve their full context only through their being seen and understood as parts of a natural order.

  

  Walter Rudolf Hess
  • Energy
  • Natural
  • Changes

• Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only.'

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Life
  • Men
  • Only

• Interesting things come your way but as you get older, your lifestyle changes. I don't want to travel; I don't want to be in a hotel room away from my family.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Family
  • Interesting
  • Travel

• Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Action
  • Responsibility

• I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up these press releases and handed them out to the crowd at the Kemper Arena. 'Nobody keeps campaign promises.' 'Nobody lowers your taxes.' 'Nobody should have that much power.' 'Nobody is in Washington working for you.'

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Up
  • Time
  • Power

• No, life ends and no, there is nothing elsewhere, and no question now of ever finding again that white speck lost in whiteness, to see if they still lie still in the stress of that storm, or of a worse storm, or in the black dark for good, or the great whiteness unchanging, and if not what they are doing.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Life
  • Good
  • Great

• The doctrine he was going to be teaching, starting tonight, was not the sort of ideology that would stir souls; no one would die for this religion. It would only attracts converts by promising a return to old tradition and by seeming to be the religion of the future.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Future
  • Die

• Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying!

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Pain
  • Dying
  • Flying

• I always get more applause than votes.

  

  Norman Thomas
  • Get
  • Applause
  • Votes

• We can all instinctively understand the idea of life insurance; most of us will feel an instinctive repugnance at the thought of the viatical industry, or 'dead peasants insurance.' As market thinking penetrated the life insurance industry, a moral line was crossed, and the application of market ideas was taken too far.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Taken

• If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • Good
  • God
  • Done

• However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.

  

  James Schuyler