David Biespiel Quotes

I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves out into the world as poets, as a sort of poet of the tribe, as representatives of metaphor, and try to claim space for metaphor in the inner life, that's going to be important and be helpful to poetry and bring a tension for poets writing about whatever they choose.

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• Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity.

  

  Ralph Chaplin
  • Business
  • Break
  • Laws

• For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • American
  • Future
  • Man

• There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Country
  • Children
  • Bad

• I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Children
  • Book
  • Write

• Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • God
  • Bad
  • Me

• The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Die
  • End
  • Civilization

• Courses on historical methodology are not worth the time that they take up. I shall never give one myself, and I have observed that many of my colleagues who do give such courses refrain from exemplifying their methods by writing anything.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Man

• But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • Think
  • Like
  • Athlete

• I was able to work with the best musicians in Kansas City starting when I was really young.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Work
  • City
  • Best

• I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Work
  • American

• So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Girl
  • Acting

• It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Hard

• It would have been easy for me to bring out a real cheesy pop song, but 'Please Don't Let Me Go' isn't your typical 'X Factor' single, and it's a grower, not a shower.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Real
  • Song
  • Me

• I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Sleep
  • Weird
  • Clothes

• The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.

  

  Nate Holland
  • Done
  • Night
  • Action

• The state treasurer has authority to weigh in and take leadership roles on taxing and spending legislation.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • Leadership
  • Authority
  • Roles

• 'A liar sees lies,' said Taleswapper. 'Even when they aren’t there. Just as a hypocrite sees hypocrites whenever he runs across good people. Can’t stand to think that anyone might really be what you only pretend to be.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Good
  • Lies

• How can a rabbi not live with doubt? The Bible itself is a book of doubt.

  

  Arthur Hertzberg
  • Live
  • Book
  • Doubt

• If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?

  

  Paige Craig
  • People
  • Good
  • Seen

• People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • People
  • Me
  • Action

• The happier and more stress-free you are, the more people will want to be around you and the more your friends will respect you.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • People
  • Friends
  • Free

• I'm not going to tell people how to write, but we do have a skill set, and the more we put ourselves out into the world as poets, as a sort of poet of the tribe, as representatives of metaphor, and try to claim space for metaphor in the inner life, that's going to be important and be helpful to poetry and bring a tension for poets writing about whatever they choose.

  

  David Biespiel
  • People
  • Important
  • Writing