Andre Naffis-Sahely Quotes

Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.

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• Many past products advertised in old publications can be profitably promoted all over again. Sometimes, just by giving them a new twist or modern application, you'll hit a real winner.

  

  E. Joseph Cossman
  • Real
  • Past
  • Giving

• I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Work
  • Real
  • Witty

• It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Life
  • Real
  • School

• I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Think
  • Faith
  • Poetry

• A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Real
  • Trying
  • May

• You dread that there will be real problems during filming.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Real
  • You
  • Problems

• I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Life
  • Real
  • Soul

• It is true that short forms of poetry have been cultivated in the Far East more than in modern Europe; but in all European literature short forms of poetry are to be found - indeed quite as short as anything in Japanese.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • True
  • Poetry
  • Literature

• Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • History
  • Mother
  • Poetry

• The Scottish Highlands are incredible. There seems to be magic and poetry everywhere.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Poetry
  • Magic
  • Seems

• For Randy Neugebauer, the Texas Republican who chairs the investigations subcommittee, the top sources of funding for his 2012 reelection campaign are from the insurance, banking, finance, securities and real estate industries.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Real
  • Insurance
  • Texas

• I think what will happen is that fiction will become more like poetry. As in, the only people who read it will write it.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • People
  • Think
  • Poetry

• Real comedy doesn't just make people laugh and think, but makes them laugh and change.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • People
  • Real
  • Change

• I just don't do much social media. No, it is more important to strike a balance between ballet and real life.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Life
  • Important
  • Real

• There Poetry shall tune her sacred voice,And wake from ignorance the Western World.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Poetry
  • Ignorance

• Sometimes in June, when I see unearned dividends of dew hung on every lupine, I have doubts about the real poverty of the sands. On solvent farmlands lupines do not even grow, much less collect a daily rainbow of jewels.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • Real
  • Poverty
  • Daily

• I'm pretty handy in the kitchen. But my wife's the real genius.

  

  Chris Diamantopoulos
  • Real
  • Pretty
  • Wife

• Whereas with Sirk, everything is always filmed. No matter what the script, he's always a real director.

  

  Jacques Rivette
  • Real

• Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Meeting

• One lesson of Sept. 11 is that a government that tries to do everything is likely to do most of it badly.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Trying
  • Government
  • Lessons

• One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great deal of hope and many dreams.

  

  Abigail McCarthy
  • Love
  • Hope
  • Grief

• There is a myth that writers get to choose their stories. You don't get to choose your story any more than you get to choose your children. You can make the decision to write, but beyond that, at the end of the day, it's going to come out how it's going to come out.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • Children
  • Decision

• I think Yelena Akhtiorskaya is a genius. What she manages to do, linguistically and emotionally, in the span of a single sentence, is astonishing.

  

  Keith Gessen
  • Thinking
  • Single
  • Genius

• Poetry either pulses with real life or it's just an aborted simulacra. There's no middle ground.

  

  Andre Naffis-Sahely
  • Real
  • Poetry
  • Middle