I used to think all poets were Byronic.
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EUGENIO MONTALE I am half-Byronic, half-moronic; part-shaman, part-showman.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY 'Peter Pan' is my favorite. I love the idea that all the Lost Boys were orphans, and that th...
EDWARD KITSIS There is some humour in 'Family Values.' I don't want everyone to think it's not goi...
WENDY COPE The interesting thing is that you don't often meet a poet who doesn't have a sense of humour...
WENDY COPE Bloody men are like bloody buses - you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your stop...
WENDY COPE In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot...
WENDY COPE I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're g...
WENDY COPE I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
WENDY COPE Possibly I've become less funny as I've been happier.
WENDY COPE I like a quiet life.
WENDY COPE I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you ...
WENDY COPE I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset ...
WENDY COPE I have a theory that if you've got the kind of parents who want to send you to boarding school, ...
WENDY COPE Bloody Christmas, here again, let us raise a loving cup, peace on earth, goodwill to men, and make t...
WENDY COPE I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to...
WENDY COPE I'm aiming by the time I'm fifty to stop being an adolescent.
WENDY COPE Bloody men are like bloody buses -- you wait for about a year and as soon as one approaches your sto...
WENDY COPE I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
WENDY COPE Bloody Christmas, here again, Let us raise a loving cup, Peace on earth, goodwill to men, And make t...
WENDY COPE I like you more than I would like to have a cigarette.
WENDY COPE On Waterloo Bridge where we said our goodbyes,
the weather conditions bring tears to my eyes. WENDY COPE I think we can cope with that.
GERRIT ZALM I think a basic level of fitness can help the body cope with all manner of incidents.
RICHARD HAMMOND What great sportsmanship, ... I think we can cope with victory now. We've outperformed the Aussies a...
JOHN JAMES Finn: I look at you because I can't look away Wendy.
Wendy: That's kinda creepy.
Finn: I w...
AMANDA HOCKING Dear Wendy
LARS VON TRIER Dear Wendy.
INGMAR BERGMAN I have to think of the positive; that's how I cope.
INGRID NEWKIRK All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets.
TOM HODGKINSON I think they were were amazed. They're not used to seeing that much belonging to one person.
MARY SMITH Superior poets say what they really feel. Mediocre poets say what they decide to feel. Inferior poet...
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS He was certainly in a confused state. I used to go and visit him in Callan Park. They were really - ...
ROBERT ADAMSON Wendy, Wendy, when you are sleeping in your silly bed you might be flying about with me saying funny...
J.M. BARRIE I think drugs were used by me as a way of suppressing my natural spirit.
MARIANNE FAITHFULL I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.
JIM JARMUSCH Wendy," Peter Pan continued in a voice that no woman has ever yet been able to resist, "Wendy, one g...
J.M. BARRIE Honestly I think most of them are Christians. Tyler Cope came to know Christ last year at a seven da...
BRANDON NELSON I think we're all used to it now. I think people have become prepared for it.
ROBERT PETERSEN Once, poets were magicians. Poets were strong, stronger than warriors or kings — stronger than old...
GREG BEAR He was that driven, that smart. But he could not sit still within himself.
WENDY WALKER This team is like a gas tank and we used all of our fuel on Thursday's game. I think we were all emo...
JOAN BONVICINI I think poets are much more dramatic, more theatrical than fiction writers.
FRANCINE PROSE I used to think that if I were a certain kind of person I would spend all my time creating something...
JASON LETTS I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing a...
PAUL MCCARTNEY I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing an...
PAUL MCCARTNEY God's prophets of the Beautiful,
These Poets were.
ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING I fear death. I think I must learn to romanticize death so that I can cope with its brutal irreversi...
LUKHMAN PAMBRA Women were professors, lawyers and judges. They were journalists, writers and poets.
ANGELA KING When I was a kid, I used to think pork chops and karate chops were the same thing.
SHANE KOYCZAN I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness...
FLOYD SKLOOT I used to think that all great recordings happened at about 3 A.M.
TOM WAITS I used to get spanked. Yeah, my mother used to line us up and we'd get it with the belt. I think she...
CYNDI LAUPER I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing an...
PAUL MCCARTNEY These were crimes that upset the community, ... There was pressure to solve them and there were, I t...
BARRY SCHECK I love them. They're my brothers, ... I think if we were all in the same town we would all play toge...
GREG DULLI but if they were, I don't think they used it. There just wasn't time.
AMY VANDERBILT People pay horribly little attention to their intranets, ... People used to think intranets were whe...
JAKOB NIELSEN I defer to all these other American poets who, for some reason, I both envy and admire.
CHARLES OLSON Nearly all men and women are poetical, to some extent, but very few can be called poets. There are g...
ORSON F. WHITNEY We were able to cope because many helped, and for that we are very thankful.
ARNEL SULLIANO The survey showed that 75% of businesses saying they were struggling to cope with change.
DAVID SMITH I used to think that once you were a grown-up you did something right the first time.
KATIE DAVIS Sometimes poets expect me to think far deeper than I'm willing to dig.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I ...
TENNESSEE (THOMAS LANIER) WILLIAMS We are used to Cheshire being very good but I think they were more shocked in the first half.
CHRISTINA DONIGIAN People ask, how do you cope, and all I can say is that you do.
ALAN BATES All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD I don't think it's by accident that I was first attracted to translating two French women po...
MARILYN HACKER I used to think men were these idiots who just yelled at you on the street. But, part of my maturing...
JESSICA WILLIAMS Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now...
DON DELILLO Before I was a mom I used to think that parents who worried about their kids watching MTV were just ...
MARTHA QUINN I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers.
RALPH ELLISON I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing oc...
HUGH LAURIE In Russia all tyrants believe poets to be their worst enemies.
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO It's just shocking. We were supposed to have a big family dinner. Instead we're just trying to cope.
BUDDY CARLISLE Before I was born, my mom and my dad, they used to rescue dogs, so at one point, they had 13 dogs. A...
MAISIE WILLIAMS JFK used to say the bishops and the cardinals were all Republicans, but the nuns were Democrats! I s...
KITTY KELLEY For us to hang in there against the number one team in the state like that ... I'm just so proud of ...
GRAN ROE I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality.
TOM VERLAINE I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with dif...
LORETTA YOUNG I try to cope with everything through humor.
GAIL PORTER I guess you have to have John Pilger. With his tan, his Byronic haircut, his trudging priestly deliv...
CHARLES JENNINGS The community of poets I belong to is not as close as it used to be, if only for the fact that our l...
JOHN BARTON We wanted to be in great shape, we wanted to be able to cope with zero gravity, we wanted to be able...
ALAN SHEPARD I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one. And now they seem sort of m...
BILL NIGHY I think we're all finally getting used to each other. Having Josh at corner has helped us.
DARNELL BING I think people are used to channels. They're not used to portals.
LARRY FISCHER I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on...
ANAïS NIN If I weren't reasonably placid, I don't think I could cope with this sort of life. To be a diva, you...
JOAN SUTHERLAND I truly hate marketing promotions, and I don't at all approve of encouraging wannabe poets to wr...
ANNE STEVENSON So you're still in love with my brother."
-Wendy Avery
CYNTHIA HAND I used to think when I was in the Go-Go's that we were as wild as any of the boy bands.
JANE WIEDLIN And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs.
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON How are you doing? How are you going to cope?
THE ARCHIVES all the poets wanted to get disability insurance it was better than immortality.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I guess you have to have John Pilger. With his tan, his Byronic
haircut, his trudging priestly ...
CHARLES JENNINGS There's danger in just shoveling out money to people who say, 'My life is a little harder th...
CHARLIE MUNGER I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
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WENDY KOPP Certain people have certain ways of focusing on things, and some arrange their lens to a pinhole in ...
WENDY WHELAN It's time to declare a cease-fire in the education arms race. We have far more to gain from coll...
WENDY KOPP The truth is that at age 19, I was a teenage mother living alone with my daughter in a trailer and s...
WENDY DAVIS It's great to talk about how good things are now. But we can't sit on our laurels and expect...
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WENDY HIGGINS Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering th...
WENDY KOPP I knew I wanted to be a ballet dancer, but what kind, I wasn't sure. My two dream companies had ...
WENDY WHELAN This is our home tonight. Anywhere with you is my home.
WENDY HIGGINS Common Core reminds us what testing can do right. Modeled on standards of the world's education ...
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