Stephen Dunn Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
-
I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
-
There were centuries when civilization had no theater.
-
A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
-
I don't want to become known as just a body.
-
I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
-
People like to see me fight. A name can only take you so far. There are only a few fighters out of the thousands of boxers out there that have name recognition. I'm definitely not upset by that.
-
I have a personal little routine that I do in my dressing room just to kind of get myself mentally prepared to go on stage, and part of that is a poem that I read to myself.
-
The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.
-
I challenge Destiny, yes, but I do not leap off cliffs.
-
Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.
-
I loved 'The Wizard of Oz,' and I'm a huge Judy Garland fan, too.
-
I was like the family clown. The middle child entertaining. I was a lousy student, but interestingly, the nuns always let me write plays or do drawings, endless special projects.
-
I have never received a flute from them for free and I would not accept such a gift from any manufacturer.
-
We're always bombarded with images from magazines of what looks cool and sexy.
-
I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service.
-
Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.
-
We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.
-
I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.
-
When my kids are in college, maybe I'll drag my fishnets and high heels out.
-
America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.
-
The House of Lords must go - not be reformed, not be replaced, not be reborn in some nominated life-after-death patronage paradise, just closed down, abolished, finished.
-
We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
-
When I stop becoming, that's when I worry.