Another trouble with poetry - and I'm gonna stop the list at two - is the presence of presumptuousness in poetry, the… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
Most men have no purpose but to exist, Abraham; to pass quietly through history as minor characters upon a stage they cannot… — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
Life is full of many minor annoyances, and few matters of real consequence. — Harvey Penick Copy Share Image
We get stuck in old thought and behavior patterns that may have been effective when we were twelve months or twelve years… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball. — Gaylord Perry Copy Share Image
Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism. — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I was not naturally talented. I didn't sing, dance or act, though working around that minor detail made me inventive. — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
As women, we're probably more protective of children. Also, we've been minors all of our history — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
It is more important to have beauty in one's equations than to have them fit experiment... It seems that if one is… — Paul Dirac Copy Share Image
What affects one in a major way, affects all in a minor way. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Nearly half a century has passed since Watson proclaimed his manifesto. Today, apart from a few minor reservations, the vast majority of… — Cyril Burt Copy Share Image
I was fortunate in that I attended university in Canada in the early 1970s when you could take a true liberal arts… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Measure your emotions. You don't need an atomic explosion for a minor point. — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
“Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The very word "change" has changed. When I was young--and not just because I was young--we looked forward with confident impatience to… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
I really love how the andante from the "A minor Sonata" sounds on the mandolin. — Chris Thile Copy Share Image
in a world where only a minor portion of the land is really well suited to agriculture, man is using much of… — Frances Moore Lappé Copy Share Image
No one except for al-Assad's army is fighting against ISIS or other terrorist organisations in Syria, no one else is fighting them… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The real story of the Fleece: there were these two children of Zeus, Cadmus and Europa, okay? They were about to get… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
