Alison Hawthorne Deming Quotes
Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
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But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
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I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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I was angry but not at God. I feel that you are closer to God when you are messed up. Definitely. That's when you most need God, and God cannot control what man does.
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He who talks more is sooner exhausted.
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I hate birthdays.
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
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Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
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I don't want to look old and worn, but what can you do? My real focus is being an actor. I care more about having the opportunity to play roles that I haven't played than I care if my neck looks like someone's bedroom curtains.
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You know, if they can do this to me they can do this to anybody, and they have been doing this for over sixty years . . . . it’s a very strange world.
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USA Today doesn't like my 'tone,' humor, sarcasm, etc. etc., which raises the intriguing question of why they hired me to write for them in the first place. Perhaps they thought they were getting Catherine Coulter.
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Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended.
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The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.
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Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
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The caricature of science is that we hold tight to the theories we have, and shun challenges to them. That's just not true. In fact, we hold our highest rewards for those scientists who can prove others wrong. And by the way, they are famous in their own lifetimes. We don't wait until they're dead.
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I have great respect for my parents. I got such beautiful things from both of them. It doesn't mean that we didn't have our rough times, but they were remarkable people who were open-minded, creative and hard-working, and had great senses of humor.
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So I've never found there was any particular separation between the two cultures at all, musically speaking.
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I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own backyard. James Joyce married a woman who never read any of his books.
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'The Night Following' is very interior; the events are, to a large degree, mental events.
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In 'Packing for Mars,' I tried to convey the importance of getting young people interested in science.
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Study, analyse the social structure - that's always far more effective than moralising.
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Bringing science into poetry is one way of acknowledging some of the richest stuff that is in my cultural moment.
