Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kathryn Harrison

Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, 'Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?' And then it's never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

We explore our environment, more than we are compelled to utter poetry, when we're toddlers. We start doing that later. Before that happens, every child is a scientist.

Mitch Daniels

I am compelled to note that Father Jenkins is off to a somewhat shaky start. He has violated the first rule of all great leaders, which is to never follow a superstar.

Rashid Khalikov

We have funds sufficient for the next couple of weeks but in order to continue this operation, we need funds immediately as all reserves are being used and if funds are not generated, we would be compelled to scale-down our activities.

Cal Ripken, Jr.

There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.

Mary Osako

We only responded with what we were legally compelled to provide and nothing more. We had a vigorous process in place to make sure that only required material was provided.

Vikram Seth

If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.

Ezra Taft Benson

God will have a humble people. Either we can choose to be humble, or we can be compelled to be humble.

John C. Calhoun

When the period arrives - come when it may - that this government will be compelled to resort to internal taxes for its support in time of peace, it will mark one of the most difficult and dangerous stages through which it is destined to pass.

John Lampe

The real issue here is the safety of the Explorer, ... Ford refused to look at issues surrounding the Explorer in August. Ford failed to do that today.

Jeremy Robinson

When I've pictured what Heaven would be like, I've always imagined myself free to explore the outer reaches of space.

Travis Bradberry

When influential people speak, conversations spread like ripples in a pond. And those ripples are multidirectional; influencers inspire everyone around them to explore new ideas and think differently about their work.

David Norris

We did explore other different financial scenarios, but opted with Frazier after reviewing it all.

Nnedi Okorafor

There's a story in 'Kabu Kabu' called 'Bakasi Man' where I got to explore the mind of a 'bad man.' It was fun.

Patrick Hogan

World Wind lets users explore their world at will,

Mario Testino

I studied law, economy, international relations, communications, in order to find what I would do. It's the hardest thing, being 17 and trying to find what to do in life. You've explored so little. I'm lucky: My parents let me explore.

Richard Hatch

Since I am a teacher and I lecture on social change, and on up-leveling people's lives, science fiction's a great place where you can really explore a lot of territory.

Andrea Kay

She now has the luxury to explore her next step, because she got this package.

Charles Dickens

Why then we should drop into poetry.

Louis MacNeice

Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically.

Archibald MacLeish

A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit.

Juvenal

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

Camille Paglia

Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind.

C. K. Williams

Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by.

Charles Simic

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Diane Ackerman

poetry had everything to teach me about life.

Craig Johnson

I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it.

Joey Lina

The expulsion, my friends, is utterly without any basis.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Utterance is the evidence of foregone study.

Autre Ne Veut

I started singing the second I could utter sound.

Cate Blanchett

The Oscar is very beautiful, utterly mesmeric, but I don't feel any more important because I have won one. It doesn't mean I'm any better than anyone.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

Herman Gorter

The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.

Abraham Lincoln

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

John Searle

An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate.