Earle Birney Quotes

The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.

Earle Birney

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• I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.

  

  Malcolm D. Lee
  • People
  • Strong
  • Funny

• Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Good
  • God
  • Soul

• I felt like the country lays out like a pretty beautiful story itself, heading from the East Coast to West.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • Country
  • Pretty
  • Beautiful

• I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Love
  • Fun
  • Farm

• Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Friends
  • Open

• I think, by nature, human beings are curious. And I think that's only amplified as an artist.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Nature
  • Think
  • Artist

• The idea of being a painter, I've always thought, is better than being an artist or a sculptor.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Artist
  • Thought
  • Better

• Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • People
  • Money
  • Think

• To be understood is to prostitute yourself.

  

  Fernando Pessoa

• The only art her guilt to cover,To hide her shame from every eye,To give repentance to her lover,And wring his bosom, is — to die.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Art
  • Die

• During slumber's magic reignOther times shall live again;

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Live
  • Magic

• When I go to the movies, I like to see something different.

  

  David Frankel
  • Different

• I feel strongly that I need to try to make my shows as real as possible. What you see is what you get.

  

  Neil Cavuto
  • Real

• Hamdan Sports Complex is an amazing venue, and I think all the players will love it.

  

  Chen Long
  • Amazing
  • Sports

• Some of the stage outfits I've got are ridiculous. I'll lay out clothes to pack, and it'll look like Polly Pocket clothing - because it's all stretchy, it's tiny. I don't need a case when I tour; I can fit it all in my handbag.

  

  Jessie J

• Corny answer is of course is that everyone who wants musicals are children in different ways, aren't they? So you think of them in different ways. There are things of mine I'm sorry haven't come here.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Different
  • Children
  • Sorry

• My strong sense now is that, as women have become more equal in society, so their depictions onscreen have become lamer and lamer and lamer, to the point that it's an embarrassment.

  

  Allison Pearson
  • Women
  • Society
  • Strong

• Music can be so disturbing and frustrating. I mean the business side of it. The actual making music part is fun, but the business side of it is just so out of control, has nothing to do with anything.

  

  Dweezil Zappa
  • Music
  • Business
  • Fun

• Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Experience
  • Morning
  • Poetry

• As a direct line to human feeling, empathic experience, genuine language and detail, poetry is everything that headline news is not. It takes us inside situations, helps us imagine life from more than one perspective, honors imagery and metaphor - those great tools of thought - and deepens our confidence in a meaningful world.

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• Poetry is a magic of pauses ... not a thing of tunes, but of heightened consciousness.

  

  Marianne Moore
  • Poetry
  • Magic

• Poetry was the first step, and from the age of 18, there was nothing else I wanted to do.

  

  Christopher Koch
  • Age
  • Poetry

• I don't use labels a lot.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Use
  • Lot
  • Labels

• The essentials of poetry are rhythm, dance, and the human voice.

  

  Earle Birney
  • Poetry
  • Rhythm
  • Human Voice