Stephen Dobyns Quotes

I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.

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• Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Country
  • Community
  • Better

• When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Never
  • Theory

• The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • Important
  • Prove
  • Hype

• I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Business
  • Help
  • Write

• A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.

  

  Zendaya
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Women

• Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Value
  • Listening
  • Doing

• I had been an abject fan of Robert Stone since the early eighties, when I borrowed a copy of 'A Flag for Sunrise' to read on a plane to Rome. I was twenty-something, with a first novel under my belt.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • Stone
  • Sunrise
  • Rome

• I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and look pretty. I want to smile and I want to make people laugh. And that's all I want. I like it. I like being happy. I want to make others happy.

  

  Doris Day
  • People
  • Happy
  • Fun

• God gives us the vision, then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience. Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Real
  • Vision

• I welcome death. In death there are no interviews!

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Death
  • Interviews

• I would never recommend my novel as a parenting guide. But we happen to live at a very hectic and hurried time, and I believe that many parents are too wrapped up in themselves.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Time
  • Believe

• Chicago was big for me as far as developing as a person and as a basketball player.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Player
  • Basketball
  • Chicago

• Awful as the consideration of eternity is, it is a source of great consolation to the righteous.

  

  Charles Buck
  • Great
  • Eternity
  • Source

• We can invoke spiritual compensation when we find ourselves in situations of material lack.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Spiritual
  • Compensation
  • Invoke

• One of the things women are very good at, that's networking. Women are not afraid to say, "I need." They're not afraid. Men won't even ask for directions. Women will tell each other when they need something. Women will tell each other when their husband is having an affair. Men don't do that.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• There are no mistakes, there are only correctable errors. There are no errors, there are only alternate programs.

  

  John Lilly
  • Mistake
  • Program
  • Errors

• When I am gone, I do not want men to say Look at his piles of wealth, his cities, his palaces and fine clothes.” Genghis paused for a moment. “Instead I want them to say Make sure he is truly dead. He is a vicious old man and he conquered half the world.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Wealth
  • Dead
  • Cities

• Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Boy
  • Look
  • Tough

• From Shane's Point of View: Jester talking to Shane: "What's the matter? You afraid you'd bite your skinny little girlfriend?" Jester laughed. "She's already someone else's, you know. I can smell the bite on her. He's marked her." Myrnin. "Shut up," I said, and kicked him in the face.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • She
  • Face

• I prefer poems that occupy an imaginative sphere. When I lived in Cincinnati, I was occasionally referred to as an "Ohio Poet;" this made me uneasy, not only because I think of myself as a generally American poet but also because I like to think I write out of the country of my own mind.

  

  Cate Marvin
  • Writing
  • Country
  • Mind

• I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.

  

  Nella Larsen
  • World
  • Persons

• I can't believe there is a poet who hasn't eagerly put down a word one day, only to erase it the next day deciding it was sheer lunacy. It's part of the process of selection.

  

  Stephen Dobyns
  • Word
  • Poet
  • Selection