Ishmael Reed Quotes

We will leap tall couplets in a single bound.

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• The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.

  

  Gabe Paul
  • Great
  • Day
  • Baseball

• If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Writing
  • Energy
  • Hand

• If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Trying
  • Always
  • Tone

• Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Aim
  • Leisure

• And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Game
  • Sin
  • Shame

• I can't be anybody but myself.

  

  William Hung
  • Myself

• If this is a tribute show to Eddie, then I definitely want to be a part of it, and I know that he would want me to be a part of it also.

  

  Eddie Guerrero
  • Show
  • Tribute
  • Eddie

• Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Writing
  • Age
  • Materials

• What indeed is life, unless so far as it is enjoyed? It does not merit the name.

  

  William Godwin
  • Names
  • Doe
  • Enjoyed

• Anybody who preserves the ability to recognize beauty will never get old.

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Beauty
  • Old
  • Preserves

• We must proceed with our own energy development. Exploitation of domestic petroleum and natural gas potentialities, along with nuclear, solar, geothermal, and non-fossil fuels is vital. We will never again permit any foreign nation to have Uncle Sam over a barrel of oil.

  

  Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
  • Energy
  • Development
  • Potentialities

• Abbie would stop in her work and utter a prayer for him,—and, sent as it were from the bow of a mother's watchful care, bound by the cord of a mother's love, the little winged arrow on its flight must have reached Some one,—Somewhere.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Care
  • Prayer
  • Flight

• I had done the child acting thing, which is pretty much learning your lines, standing there looking natural, and having fun.

  

  Vinessa Shaw
  • Children
  • Done
  • Fun

• Man's grandeur is that he knows himself to be miserable.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Knows
  • Miserable
  • Grandeur

• We will leap tall couplets in a single bound.

  

  Ishmael Reed
  • Leap
  • Bound
  • Couplets