Americans are not brought up with meter. They're not brought up with poetry. If you try to get them to recite, they're… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really… — Dan Wheldon Copy Share Image
Grace is the light or electricity or juice or breeze that takes you from that isolated place and puts you with others… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
When Pat Buchanan came out against the Beijing Women's Conference and there were women standing next to him, smiling and laughing when… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
It's sad that the most glorious of sexual experiences can make us feel guilty, ashamed, embarrassed, and abnormal. — Sue Johanson Copy Share Image
I was sometimes embarrassed about making it - people look at you in a different way. You become this rich guy with… — Ralph Lauren Copy Share Image
I don't know if I'm embarrassed because I think it's a funny show, but I could imagine there being a snootiness about… — Stephen Merchant Copy Share Image
I learned early on not to feel badly about reaching out for help, and not to feel embarrassed about saying that you're… — Dennis Crowley Copy Share Image
Up until I came here this week, and I met so many women and young girls who feel, to use their word… — Lucy Lawless Copy Share Image
I have a huge scarf from Hermes that I bought the day I signed my record deal. I had never had an… — Lou Doillon Copy Share Image
I would feel pretty embarrassed if I was doing what I do and I wasn't at least attempting the eloquent translation of… — El-P Copy Share Image
My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think that sometimes people [who overreact or lash out] will hang on to their point just because they're so embarrassed that… — Margaret Cho Copy Share Image
William Howard Taft, who he embarrassed in these congressional hearings, attacks him as an emotionalist and a socialist and a cosmopolitan in… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
I try to make the writing as regular and regimented as possible. I usually get up at around 5 a.m. and read… — Christopher Paul Curtis Copy Share Image
When people say to me, 'You hate America,' I don't hate America. I love America. I am just embarrassed that it has… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Most of the boys would come with bits of equipment that their fathers had given them from their war days - helmets,… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Because of the Republicans, I'm not ashamed of being an American. I'm embarrassed! — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I was always a little embarrassed when there was an act on television that requires a great deal of skill but is… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
I feel crushingly embarrassed when I do bad work, so being rejected after doing bad work is actually harder than being rejected… — Aya Cash Copy Share Image
He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse. — Lord Byron Copy Share Image