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.
-
I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
-
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.'
-
People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
-
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.
-
My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
-
When you're imagining peace, you can't kill anyone. That's good isn't it?
-
I've never loved anybody the way I love my children.
-
I always dreamed of going to the Olympics. To be going to the Games in your own country is another thing; to do it as a potential medallist is another thing again.
-
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.
