Dana Gioia Quotes
Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text, but what matters is what a reader actually finds there which is usually something both more and less than the poet planned.
Dana Gioia
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As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.
Ice T
For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian.
Radha Mitchell
On the first 'Indiana Jones' movie, I tore an ACL in one of my knees - can't remember which knee. The scene in which I was fighting the big German mechanic on an airplane called a flying wing, I was run over by the landing gear and injured my knee, but I can't remember which one it was. Lots of bumps and injuries along the way.
Harrison Ford
The toughest thing about managing is knowing your personnel and what it can give you under all conditions.
Walter Alston
Today, a nation ringed by walls would only imprison itself.
Barack Obama
Then a overflowing desire comes to me, absurd, of a sort of satanism before Satan, in that one day ... an escape out of God can be found and the deepest of us stops, I don't know how, to be a part of being or not being.
Fernando Pessoa
I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.
Alice Sebold
I am a quiet person's nightmare. The only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.
Jodie Whittaker
The sun meets not the springing bud that stretches towards him with half the certainty that God, the source of all good, communicates himself to the soul that longs to partake of him.
William Law
I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.
Rabih Alameddine
Basketball is basketball, but with each level, there's new challenges and new things you have to pick up.
Blake Griffin
Once an author finishes a poem, he becomes merely another reader. I may remember what I intended to put into a text, but what matters is what a reader actually finds there which is usually something both more and less than the poet planned.
Dana Gioia
