Elizabeth Bishop Quotes
From a magician's midnight sleevethe radio-singersdistribute all their love-songsover the dew-wet lawns.
Elizabeth Bishop
Quotes to Explore
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Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.
Jack Levine
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Happiness statistics may be most valuable in smaller, local discussions. Understanding how different sorts of programs affect the well-being of citizens would be enormously helpful to a mayor choosing between building a new bridge or offering a tax cut.
Adam Davidson
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I wouldn't recommend being a musician to anyone. It's not glamorous. It's a lot of being dirty, not eating, playing for five people and one of them is the bartender.
Dan Reynolds
Imagine Dragons
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I think feminism is that you just have to stick it all out. I remember this one time when someone interviewed me, and I was young, and they said, 'Do you see yourself as a feminist?' And I was like, 'I don't know. I'm not really comfortable calling myself a feminist.'
Yuna
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After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.
Iain Duncan Smith
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I know, for me, 'Grease' was one of the first musicals that I can really remember watching as a kid, and I kind of fell in love that that genre.
Jacob Artist
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My father believed strongly, and taught me, that you can't let yourself get too high on a success or too low on a failure. In this volatile business, that's useful to know.
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
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Don't know much about history, don't know much Biology. Don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took. But I do know that I love you, and I know that if you love me, too, what a wonderful world this would be.
Sam Cooke
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In one second, without any previous training or upbringing, he had become the wettest man in Worcestershire.
P. G. Wodehouse
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The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau
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In whatever you do, strive to be the best at it.
Aliko Dangote
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I was an only child. I've known only children. From this experience, I do believe that the children should outnumber the parents.
Jane Smiley