People Quote by Paul Muldoon Download Open image “Of course, you can't legislate for how people are going to read” — Paul Muldoon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare People
Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. — Aneurin Bevan Copy Share Image
As much as we would like to deny it, reading is not vital to human survival. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
The public is totally illiterate in America. It can't read at all. It's absolutely insensitive to words. — James Purdy Copy Share Image
If Americans are to read something that is difficult, they will only do so supposing they will be admired for having done it. — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is the easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I don't really believe that people read just the stuff they agree with. — William Kristol Copy Share Image
I've made it pretty clear that I can't legislate or dictate proper behavior. You can't. You do everything that you can. — Kim Reynolds Copy Share Image
Reading is like permitting a man to talk a long time, and refusing you the right to answer. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
Living at that pitch, on that edge, is something which many poets engage in to some extent. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
If the poem has no obvious destination, there's a chance that we'll be all setting off on an interesting ride. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
Form is a straitjacket in the way that a straitjacket was a straitjacket for Houdini, — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see. — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
I suppose for whatever reason I actively welcome being put down, something which perhaps goes back to my upbringing - that accusation of not… — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too — Paul Muldoon Copy Share Image
If I am going to be phased out by whatever powers, then I want people to know that it is not because I am… — Parvathy Copy Share Image
Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom… — Emily Robison Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
From Augustine down, theologians have tried to compel people to accept their special interpretation of the Scripture, and the tortures of the inquisition, the… — Matilda Joslyn Gage Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like I definitely have a real sporty style, more so than a lot of people in G.O.O.D. Music. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
The only people who think the Internet is a calamity are people whose lives have been hurt by it; the only people who insist… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
I think, here's what I've realized from interviewing people, and I've been very open about my Catholicism and my love of Christ and I… — Jay Mohr Copy Share Image
For us who are now in power, we need to be challenged to serve the people and ignore our own egos and personal interests… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I… — Lorde Copy Share Image
