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 wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
Iris Apfel -
I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
Mal Peet
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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 -
Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
I. M. Pei -
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
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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 -
To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
Daisaku Ikeda -
I feel, even if someone is blessed with good hair, one needs to follow the basic hair care regime, and that means investing in the correct shampoo, conditioner, and mask.
Yami Gautam -
I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.
Zachary Levi
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The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.
Pankaj Mishra -
I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.
Jay McInerney -
The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
E. M. Forster -
Being a former first lady doesn't prepare you to be president.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
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