Karl Shapiro Quotes
But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.
Quotes to Explore
-
There's really nothing better than a hunt ball.
-
When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
-
New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
-
I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
-
I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
-
As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.
-
The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.
-
Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
-
We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.
-
We were not allowed to say, Screw, but we could say, Hump the hostess, because hump is in Shakespeare.
-
In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.
-
I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
-
Reverence is fatal to literature.
-
Save yourself some grief. Check with the publicist you hire to see what other books he/she has coming out at the same time as yours.
-
I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
-
There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
-
I love my sleep.
-
I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
-
There is so much falsehood both at home and at school. At home one must not speak, and at school we have to stand and tell lies to the children.
-
Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
-
If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.
-
But with exquisite breathing you smile, with satisfaction of love, And I touch you again as you tick in the silence and settle in sleep.
