Stephen Dobyns Quotes
One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.
Stephen Dobyns
Quotes to Explore
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When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.
Walter Murch
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While I'm generally silent on the affairs of my biological mother, her recent tirade has taken a gross turn.
Frances Bean Cobain
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The whole concept of the devil is a metaphor on one level.
Taylor Hackford
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I never have tantrums. If anything makes me mad, I'm silent. If I'm not talking, leave me alone.
Pat Nixon
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I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.
Pamela Hansford Johnson
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When we talk about dystopias, especially in young adult fiction, a lot of them are essentially science fictional futures. They aren't necessarily tied to the traditional concept of dystopia. And so in that space, my impression is that kids love reading about weird, wild, adventurous places, and dystopia fits that bill.
Paolo Bacigalupi
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What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
Patrick Kavanagh
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He does all research now, but he put me on some medication, Zoloft, and, I tell you what, a lot of people have had pros and cons about it, but it was my wonder drug.
Tanya Tucker
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You don't gamble to win. You gamble so you can gamble the next day.
Bert Ambrose
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
Fernando Botero
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Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food, you have to be unnervingly close to it. To smell or hear it, you can risk being further off. But vision can rush through the fields and up the mountains, travel across time, country, and parsecs of outer space, and collect bushel baskets of information as it goes. Animals that hear high frequencies better than we do
Diane Ackerman
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One writes a poem when one is so taken up by an emotional concept that one is unable to remain silent.
Stephen Dobyns
