Amy Gerstler Quotes
With contemporary poetry having approximately as many fans outside the immediate field as there are devotees of undergoing knee surgery, any sentient, breathing reader who's genuinely interested in poetry... not scared of it... seems a godsend.Amy Gerstler
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
Wallace Shawn -
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.
Florence Henderson -
I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
Iris Apfel
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I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
Mal Peet -
I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
Victor Webster -
I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
Adam Driver -
Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.
P. J. O'Rourke -
There are regulators at the SEC and elsewhere who are really excited about the potential of the blockchain. They understand you can build a robust financial system - it would solve all your black swan problems. All kinds of mischief and games that are played in the current system become impossible in this system.
Patrick M. Byrne -
Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
I. M. Pei
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
Barbara Cook -
I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
Zach LaVine -
Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
Ralph Cudworth -
The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
Natalia Kills -
One of the areas I have a little less confidence in is giving any kind of a speech.
Danica Patrick -
I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life. I tried to escape it for as long as I could, until I had to admit at 25 that that was my path.
Sam Taylor-Wood
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We never get so near God as when we plead for others.
F. B. Meyer -
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
E. M. Forster -
From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
Natasha Trethewey -
The Unicorn Sonata … tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes - and our ears - to find it.
Peter S. Beagle -
And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book.
C. S. Lewis -
With contemporary poetry having approximately as many fans outside the immediate field as there are devotees of undergoing knee surgery, any sentient, breathing reader who's genuinely interested in poetry... not scared of it... seems a godsend.
Amy Gerstler