Ben Lerner Quotes
The language of poetry is the exact opposite of the language of mass media.
Ben Lerner
Quotes to Explore
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
Ian McLagan
Small Faces
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I learned how to read in second grade, and I entered a summer contest at my local library in Chattanooga, Tennessee. If you read more books than anybody else, you got your Polaroid up on the bulletin board, and I did.
Frances McDormand
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
Victoria Pratt
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My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.
Becky G
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
Garth Brooks
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
Kate Winslet
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
Kate Beckinsale
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This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
Gary Zukav
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I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.
Gary Coleman
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
H. L. Mencken
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I'm always challenged by someone.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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When I was 15, I had a crush on this guy who was really good at magic, and so I learned to juggle, thinking it would impress him. I spent hours and hours practicing, planning to show him. And then I never even saw him again. But at least I learned how to juggle.
Danica McKellar
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Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.
Warren Buffett
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I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.
A. R. Rahman
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Music, for me, is just about where you're at, and that's always changing.
Yolandi Visser
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Wearable technology is not just for consumers. It creates a tremendous opportunity for businesses, too.
Parker Harris
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Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
Jack Levine
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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
