Stephen Dunn Quotes
Originality, of course, is what occurs when something new arises out of what's already been done.
Stephen Dunn
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Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.
Garrett Camp
I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.
Samuel Hoffenstein
like trying a man's finger for having pulled the trigger of a gun which murdered someone.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril
Andrew Motion
I have no idea how I do anything. I never have. You know I just started playing guitar and started singing and started working on this act that I would call "Don McLean" when I was probably in high school. And I have been doing this for 40 years, adding songs and writing things, cobbling together albums, doing live things, you know, albums and tours. And then I have records on the charts. I have no idea how this happened.
Don McLean
I just want to get back to the point where ... when we walk into the Coliseum, the Raiders are here. And we're going to play in Black Bottom - we used to call it Black Bottom back in the day, now they call it the Black Hole. That's our home field. That's our home. You can't come in our back yard and win.
Art Shell
Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
I think everyone must love life more than anything else in the world.' 'Love life more than the meaning of it?' 'Yes, certainly. Love it regardless of logic, as you say. Yes, most certainly regardless of logic, for only then will I grasp its meaning. That's what I've been vaguely aware of for a long time. Half your work is done, Ivan: you love life. Now you must try to do the second half and you are saved.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
People always ask me if I believe diamonds are a girl's best friend. Frankly, I don't.
Marilyn Monroe
A conscience is a troublesome thing at times. I woke up at 4 o'clock this morning and I spent the time feeling what a nothing I was, and wishing I was so very different. Then the morning's post brought me a letter from a friend, saying I was so this, so that - it made me really cry, I was so grateful.
Kate Greenaway
Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences.
Nikola Tesla
Don’t waste your time on sweet formalities. Just show me your originality.
Carly Pearce
