Anne Stevenson Quotes

Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

Anne Stevenson

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• When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • You
  • Always
  • Try

• When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Control
  • Gun

• An important notion in Indian political thought that is of great value to Hungary is the idea of peaceful development.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Great
  • Important
  • Political

• Product-wise, I use a morning and night cleanser. I'm really not a brand person.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Night
  • Morning
  • Wise

• The nature of things is dharma.

  

  Mahavira
  • Nature
  • Things
  • Dharma

• All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • World
  • Reality
  • Best

• Television is fun, but it's hard, and if it gets too crazy I may just do it as a part-time thing.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Time
  • May
  • Fun

• I'm so convinced that hiking helps my writing that I recently decided to offer a series of hiking-writing workshops to see if others had the same experience.

  

  Kate Klise
  • Writing
  • Experience
  • Same

• Having the ambition of becoming Olympic champion is a whole different ambition from wanting to be the greatest.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Different
  • Ambition
  • Champion

• When you've been driving in the top category for 10 years, you're obviously not a kid any more. You know, I'm married now and I've got two kids. That let's you know you're getting older.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Kids
  • Know
  • Driving

• I believe realism is nothing but an analysis of reality. Film scripts have a synthetical constitution.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Believe
  • Reality
  • I Believe

• I'll only retire in the day I should be dead and they have me buried, and some idiot spell over my casket some stupid gospel stuff.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Me
  • Stupid
  • Dead

• Ultimately, if we can develop enough players, the balance of foreign players isn't great, but that's because we're not producing enough players.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Great
  • Balance
  • Enough

• Don't marry a man to reform him - that's what reform schools are for.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Him
  • Reform

• Something like 'Sex And The City' was insulting - women all clawing on to their youth when there's such ripe territory in honestly exploring women's lives as they get older.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Women
  • City
  • Sex

• Well, Gaffer his early friend Mr. Wells, artist I see there will be no peace till I comply; so give me a piece of paper. There, now, rule the size for me, and tell me what I am to do. Mr. Wells told him: 'Well divide your subject into classes, say: Pastoral, Marine, Elegant Pastoral, and so forth..'

  

  J. M. W. Turner
  • Peace
  • Friend
  • Marine

• Deute den lieblichen Schein und mache Ernst aus dem Spiel, so wirst du das Centrum fassen und die verehrte Kunst in höherm Lichte wieder finden.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Die

• I learned more from my dad by osmosis than by any talk we ever had. He was the most reliable person I've ever met.

  

  Matt Lauer
  • Dad

• If thou shouldst paint mountains in a good style and to look natural, take some large stones full of cracks and copy them.

  

  Cennino Cennini
  • Style
  • Mountain
  • Natural

• 'Wal'r, my boy,' replied the Captain, 'in the Proverbs of Solomon you will find the following words, 'May we never want a friend in need, nor a bottle to give him!' When found, make a note of.'

  

  Charles Dickens
  • May
  • Words
  • Friend

• I had seen 'Pillowman' in London and loved it. Being part of something that I, as an audience member, would like to be part of was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Loved
  • Greatest
  • London

• I've had this TV for 7 years, this is how it works. Power on - it comes on. Simple clicker, volume control - piece of piss. Works every time.... what the fuck's this? What am I doing? JACK!!

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Time
  • Power
  • Control

• You know, I grew up with brothers so I'm used to being the only girl.

  

  Kyra Sedgwick
  • Up
  • Girl

• Each word bears its weight, so you have to read my poems quite slowly.

  

  Anne Stevenson