John Drinkwater Quotes

The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.

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• Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Day
  • Nobody
  • Court

• The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.

  

  Patrick Warburton
  • Risk
  • Jump
  • Greatest

• I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.

  

  J. Cole
  • Want
  • Man
  • Science

• It doesn't matter that the way of life shown by Hollywood was phony. It helped you hope.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Matter

• I've always been busy, but I wasn't always successful.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Always
  • Successful
  • Busy

• When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Want
  • Forgive
  • Table

• It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Fun
  • Better
  • Yourself

• Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Real
  • Democracy
  • Perspective

• There's no such thing as 'too much TV,' unless we're all spending more and not watching more.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • More
  • Watching
  • Too Much

• It's a little difficult when something goes from being an utter obsession - a thing where your skill defines you as a person - to it just being a thing you occasionally do.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Difficult
  • Skill
  • Obsession

• I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • World
  • Change
  • Brain

• There was a time in the mid-'50s when the Philippines was in the same league as Japan economically and academics-wise.

  

  Lucio Tan
  • Time
  • Wise

• It's not like I've got 100 ideas. I finish a book, and I've got none.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Book

• Success in business today requires real-time, mobile access to business opportunities.

  

  Bob McDonnell
  • Time
  • Real
  • Business

• Those who closely watched the campaign should not be surprised by Obama's hostility toward Israel, given his relations with pro-Palestinian, virulent critics of Israel and his voluntary membership in Reverend Wright's decidedly anti-Semitic church. Furthermore, his campaign website featured anti-Semitic posts.

  

  David Limbaugh
  • Church

• In any democratic, civilized - even non-democratic nations, if you are a nation, it means to say that in our case, if there's a hurricane in Louisiana, the people of Vermont are there for them. If there's a tornado in the Midwest, we are there for them. If there's flooding in the East Coast, the people in California are there for us.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People
  • California

• I've always wanted to be a mom. I had a great relationship with mine. I'm ready to pass on to my child all the great love that my mom had for me.

  

  Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • Great
  • Relationship
  • Mom

• Kids are finding out about the potential for discovery online from other sources; many of them have computers at home, for instance, or their friends have them.

  

  Daniel Greenberg
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Friends

• We didn't have a lot of live theater in Oklahoma. I didn't visit New York when I was growing up. I watched movie musicals, and I believed in an idealistic, idyllic version of Broadway.

  

  Kelli O'Hara
  • Up
  • Live
  • Movie

• I don't read about myself, and I don't read any magazine that has anything to do with movies or show business.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Business

• The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

  

  David Remnick
  • World
  • Job
  • Beautiful

• To the poet, his travels, his adventures, his loves, his indignations are finally resolved in verse, and this, in the end becomes his permanent, indestructible life.

  

  William Jay Smith
  • Life
  • Poet

• KIPP schools would be just a shining example of schools where students aren't just given homework and taught imaginative ways, but they're really brought into a culture of education.

  

  Charles Best
  • Culture
  • Education

• The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best possible way, that is, completely.

  

  John Drinkwater
  • Experience
  • Expression
  • Poet