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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The 'movement' is paramount, the concept of 'family' is the symbol we wish to project.
Juan Antonio Samaranch
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What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.
Eckhart Tolle
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You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.
Aristotle
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I am a canvas of my experiences, my story is etched in lines and shading, and you can read it on my arms, my legs, my shoulders, and my stomach.
Kat Von D
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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger.
William James
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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
