Funny Quote by John Ciardi Download Open image “Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft.” — John Ciardi ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Funny Inspirational Love Spontaneous Writing
“The other six or seven drafts are going to be pure torture. So why not enjoy the first draft, in the hope that your… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
In the draft you always have a special bond and connection, especially if you have one that goes right after you, so it's kind… — Tristan Thompson Copy Share Image
“The political history of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America shows that our Constitution emerged from the efforts of a whole people to resolve the conflict… — Noel B. Reynolds Copy Share Image
I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft.… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“The fresh “breeze of freedom” that so many people promise lightheartedly, so often, remains void in the hot desert of yearning expectations. Pretending that… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I regard the principle of conscription of life as a flat contradiction of all our cherished ideals of individual freedom, democratic liberty and Christian… — Roger Nash Baldwin Copy Share Image
When the people contend for their liberty, they seldom get anything by their victory but new masters. — George Savile Copy Share Image
The word liberty has been falsely used by persons who, being degenerately profligate in private life, and mischievous in public, had no hope left… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
But when the pen is in his hand he has to write by itch and twitch, though certainly his itch and twitch are intimately… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle out of… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
“There was a young lady from Gloucester Who complained that her parents both bossed her, So she ran off to Maine. Did her parents… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
One night I dreamed I was locked in my Father's watch With Ptolemy and twenty-one ruby stars Mounted on spheres and the Primum Mobile… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like. — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
When you step out and do a song in a musical, the easier thing to do is make it funny. But when those transitions… — Kelli O'Hara Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Sometimes I look at my awesome twitter followers & think to myself, What the hell would I do without them :) — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
Congratulations to Facebook on going public with all my private information... — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you were to send a werewolf to the moon, would he be a werewolf permanently? — Kristen Schaal Copy Share Image
