Answers Quote by Lisel Mueller

I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate…

— Linton Kwesi Johnson

The sensuality of desperate lives. Only poets talk like that. But poetry has never had an answer for anything. All it does it bear…

— Jean-Claude Izzo

The conservative movement, to which I subscribe, has as one of its basic tenets the belief that government should stay out of people’s private…

— Barry Goldwater

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they're much more open.

— Paulo Coelho

A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want to be…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most of us…

— Robert Fulghum

Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the…

— Peter McWilliams

I think the media has got into this Enquirer mentality. Years ago, legitimate press didn't really concern itself with sordid details of people's personal…

— Joan Jett

People are intrigued and fascinated, almost obsessed with the private lives of great public personalities.

— Geoffrey Rush

The Fourth Amendment is clear; we should be secure in our persons, houses, papers, and effects, and all warrants must have probable cause. Today…

— Ron Paul

There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted, the roots…

— Ronald Reagan

Let's get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let's take a stand for personal…

— Willie Nelson