Amy Lowell Quotes
Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last great exponent of that tradition, and we all know how thin, how lacking in charm, the copies of Keats have become.
Quotes to Explore
-
I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
-
What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
-
A simple life is good with me. I don't need a whole lot. For me, a T-shirt, a pair of shorts, barefoot on a beach and I'm happy.
-
I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
-
The effect of sanctions on the Russian economy are clear to everybody, first to the Russians and to the Russian leadership, and the surroundings of the Russian leadership, the circle that is close to the Russian political leadership.
-
I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
-
Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
-
I don't look at myself as suffering.
-
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
-
Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
-
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
-
I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
-
Be your true self. Because if you're not, there are consequences to be paid.
-
Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
-
Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
-
I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
-
I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
-
There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
-
People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.
-
Great leaders have a heart for people. They take time for people. They view people as the bottom line, not as a tool to get to the bottom line.
-
The New York Philharmonic is a tremendous opportunity, a great orchestra.
-
The biblical times have come back again, the great invasions of the Medes and the Persians. Has the world, then, reached the point where it deserves to be punished for the egotistical epicureanism in which it has slumbered?
-
Girls need to see somebody that looks like them talking about science and technology.
-
Only those of our poets who kept solidly to the Shakespearean tradition achieved any measure of success. But Keats was the last great exponent of that tradition, and we all know how thin, how lacking in charm, the copies of Keats have become.
