Nicole Brossard Quotes

To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

Nicole Brossard

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• There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

  

  Ovid
  • Pleasure
  • Anxiety
  • Pure

• Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Mean
  • Fighting
  • Meaning

• He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Painting
  • Matter
  • Pleasure

• No scent is more sensual or more memorable to me than musk.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Me
  • More
  • Memorable

• Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Mean
  • Imagination
  • Doors

• Our fates are in the hands of An Almighty God, to whom I can with pleasure confide my own; he can save us, or destroy us; his Councils are fixed and cannot be disappointed, and all his designs will be Accomplished.

  

  Abraham Clark
  • God
  • Hands
  • Pleasure

• I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Know
  • Mean
  • Exactly

• We have a lot of Brazilians in the United States. It doesn't mean we're traitors to our country.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Country
  • Mean
  • United States

• I was more of a dancing kid than a singing kid. I mean, I sang in school choirs and I sang in school musicals, but I was much more interested in dancing than singing.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • School
  • Mean
  • Singing

• I don't have a Twitter or a Facebook, but that doesn't mean I'm any more productive than the rest of the world.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • World
  • Mean
  • Rest

• I don't agree that everyone should agree with everyone's lifestyle. I think that some people aren't going to agree, but I think that when you're mean and when you ridicule people it's a sign of your own insecurities.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Mean

• Malcolm X is a person who has inspired - he has been the muse of several generations of black cultural workers, artists, poets, playwrights.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Black
  • Artist
  • Inspired

• Despite our complicated civilization, so called, or perhaps on account of it, we are all of us a mere set of barbarians, who find it less trouble to provide a new, cheap, and shoddy thing than to get the full use and full pleasure out of a finely-made and carefully-chosen old one.

  

  Vernon Lee
  • Pleasure
  • Trouble
  • Complicated

• Modern poets are bells of lead. They should tinkle melodiously but usually they just klunk.

  

  Lord Dunsany
  • Should
  • Poet
  • Modern

• You could have the world in the palm of your hand, but it don't mean a thing 'til you change it.

  

  Mac Miller
  • World
  • Hand
  • Mean

• Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Trying
  • May
  • Mean

• I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Law
  • Respect
  • Mean

• I changed those things that were in direct - my direct control. I mean, I - look, I'm proud of the fact that, with two weeks to go, we're probably the first administration in modern history that hasn't had a major scandal in the White House.

  

  Barack Obama
  • History
  • House
  • Control

• One of the ongoing themes in my work, I hope, and one of the things I believe in, is a sense of human nature, a sense of shared humanity above the cultural layers we place on ourselves [which don't] mean that much compared to the human experience.

  

  Chris Hondros
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Experience

• What do you mean, I'm a wild front man! I'm jumping all over, I do the dance moves.

  

  Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
  • Men
  • Mean
  • Moving

• I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Children
  • Husband
  • Blessed

• There is this looking at the world as shapes and patterns and colors that have meaning, and you can't deny the superficial because the superficial is what meets the eye. The content can never be disconnected from the surface, and this active interest in surface can never be disregarded from the good art that we admire.

  

  Wolfgang Tillmans
  • World
  • Interest
  • Admire

• To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.

  

  Nicole Brossard
  • Mean
  • Pleasure
  • Poet