Aimee Bender Quotes

Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me.

Aimee Bender

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• I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Words
  • Dangerous
  • Safe

• You know, I have a lot of books on my iPad, but when I try to read them, I find myself wandering off to play games. Those are books I'm interested in. I can't imagine what would have happened to me in college if my biology class had been on the same computer as 'Words With Friends' and 'Doom.'

  

  Gail Collins
  • Friends
  • Words
  • College

• I might see something on TV and get inspired to write about it. I can't sit down and plan to write. It has to come to me in my head like someone telling me the words.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Words
  • Me
  • Inspired

• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • Game
  • Words

• A decision is what a man makes when he can't find anybody to serve on a committee.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • Man
  • Decision
  • Find

• It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Good
  • Important
  • Words

• I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Words
  • Where
  • ERA

• I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Think
  • Culture
  • Poetry

• I like that whole cop-comedy type of drama.

  

  Adam G. Sevani
  • Comedy
  • Like
  • Drama

• You never know how much time you got.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Know
  • Never

• To see yourself on the big screen, you're big, you hate your voice, your vocabulary. You say the same words, you speak bad.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Bad
  • Words
  • Hate

• It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • May
  • Success
  • Poetry

• The best advice I got as a writer was also the first advice, which came from the late fantasy author and editor Karl Edward Wagner: Any agent who charges to look at your work is a crook.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Work
  • Best
  • Advice

• Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Art
  • Poetry

• If someone had told me when I was a kid I'd get an ovation from Frank Sinatra! One time, I did a song called 'I Am A Singer', but I rewrote the words for Frank. I was in tears and, when he got up, so was he.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • Song
  • Tears
  • Frank Sinatra

• Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Words
  • Relationship
  • Poetry

• The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs and convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than with what these words designate.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Words
  • Language
  • Beliefs

• I always felt really alone because no one wanted to talk about the things that I enjoyed, and that was really rap music and hip-hop as a culture. You know, having the shoes, using the words, buying the magazines, seeing the videos. And I had nobody to share it with, so I feel like I lived a lot online.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Music
  • Culture
  • Words

• There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud.

  

  Carol Shields
  • Life

• I don't have a favorite part. My current part is my favorite part. And when I do the next thing, that will be my favorite part.

  

  Katharine Ross

• There will be times when we do not agree on every decision or subject, but we should always believe in one another, support one another, and move forward through life together - connected.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Together

• Who are a little wise, the best fools be.

  

  John Donne
  • Wise

• Granted, I'm someone who loves words. I've always loved poetry - so it's suited to me.

  

  Aimee Bender
  • Words
  • Poetry