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I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff.
PAULEY PERRETTE![]()
This shit is easy peasy, pumpkin peasy, pumpkin pie, muthafucka!
GERARD WAY![]()
Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY![]()
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over
ERNEST HEMINGWAY![]()
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY![]()
I’ll join you when hell freezes over,” said Neville.
J.K. ROWLING And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
BIBLE It's a blessing to be home right before Christmas. It's a whole lot better than being over there.
DERRICK BERRY![]()
I’ll be there someday, I can go the distance.
I will find my way, if I can be strong.
I ...
WALT DISNEY COMPANY![]()
People are dumb. I’ll never get over how dumb people are.
GILLIAN FLYNN A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a c...
SAMUEL MCCHORD CROTHERS All we've been hearing all week was David and Goliath. Who always won? It was David, right. David be...
ERIK HANSON All we've been hearing all week is, 'David vs. Goliath. Well, in the real story, who won? David, rig...
ERIK HANSEN It's obviously a grave day for David. He spent over a decade in that building, where today he's goin...
HUGH KEEFE![]()
Always be a poet, even in prose.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE![]()
You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.
WARSAN SHIRE![]()
If I keep pushing myself, I’ll finally be somebody. I’ll finally matter. I’ll finally arrive.�...
KEVIN DEYOUNG right before you came, I almost completely tipped over like a board -- 'Timber!'
CHARLOTTE AYANNA Okay, I’ll just jump right out and say it. I have anxiety issues.
SHANNON CELEBI That's pretty much the situation throughout the country.
MICHAEL RIGHT![]()
I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love you
Till China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps ov...
W.H. AUDEN I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of th...
JEFFERY DEAVER![]()
I think David is a true student of the game. I told him (before Connecticut), 'David, if you keep ju...
RICK PITINO I really do want to be out there with those guys. Right now, I'm going to keep thinking it over befo...
CURTIS SUMPTER Hoes always on a nigga dick when he got money but when a nigga broke a nigga ain't shit.
RUPAM DAS![]()
I’ll never be able to give you everything you deserve, but I’ll definitely spend the rest of my ...
COLLEEN HOOVER I've stated before that nine and 10 are my concerns and David is another option there,
COLIN COOPER![]()
Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the
seventeenth, poetry.
A.W. HARE AND J.C. HARE I’ll be your friend in daylight. I’ll treat you as a comrade in every gas-lit ballroom. But alon...
COURTNEY MILAN I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will atte...
VAL MCDERMID![]()
The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry
FRENCH PROVERB![]()
I’ll still be missing you as much as ever. I’l still smile at the memory of you. I’ll still be...
JERRY SPINELLI It shows what doing the right thing will do for you. There's something to be said for that.
BEFORE DAVID VEEDER I never in my wildest dreams thought that I'd get this opportunity.
BEFORE DAVID VEEDER We fought forest fires together, like for two weeks on the fire lines, 12 hours a day, so we know a ...
BEFORE DAVID VEEDER When it did, it really hurt, and that's when I started getting trouble. It was like $280,000 we lost...
BEFORE DAVID VEEDER It was always just people's junk I put together because they wanted to sell it.
BEFORE DAVID VEEDER When he showed up, I wasn't looking for him, but he said he would, and sure enough he did.
BEFORE DAVID VEEDER Wavy Gravy was the flavor that I cut my teeth on. There were over 750 variations before we hit the r...
ARNOLD CARBONE So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and ...
BIBLE I will never provide you hoes with entertainment, I'll just sit back and watch as you make a fool ou...
RICHARD DANIELS![]()
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.
DAVID HARE![]()
Out beyond ideas
of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you the...
KHALED HOSSEINI I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.
TRACY KIDDER![]()
Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time.
RICHARD CARLSON And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you wi...
BIBLE![]()
When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.
RALPH ELLISON Sweetheart, wherever you are, that’s where I’ll be. Forever.
SAMANTHA CHASE![]()
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: t...
EUGENIO MONTALE![]()
Sometimes I go, 'Wow, this is a director I really, really want to work with,' like David Cro...
HOLLY HUNTER![]()
I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, a...
TERENCE MCKENNA![]()
I’ll repeat phrases over and over in a spiral and use the shape to design a building. Would you re...
JAROD KINTZ It's up to David (Butt, driver) now. It's quite amazing how well this horse has thrived over here. H...
PAUL KERR There are times when relationships need to be prioritised over what is right. And there are times wh...
AMIT AHLAWAT I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid ...
TABLO Guess I’ll never be wise enough to roll a joint
YAMIN RASHEED Women are women: the most beautiful creatures, I love and respect. But hoes and tricks, gets slapped...
2SHADDY I thought it was a hoot. It's kind of too bad that you get the enthusiasm right before the season's ...
LAURA WOOD![]()
You can dance in the storm. Don't wait for the rain to be over before because it might take too long...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR![]()
The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and ver...
LORD BYRON![]()
I may think of you softly from time to time. But I’ll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you ...
ARTHUR MILLER You tend to be very, very cautious this time. And it was nice to get excited about something differe...
LIZ BROWN![]()
You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s ...
J.M. BARRIE They won't be a right be a right time, Thea, it doesn't exist. Just get it over with
CATHERINE GREENMAN![]()
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and pros...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE![]()
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollecte...
WILLIAM SHENSTONE Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama.
MICHIKO KAKUTANI![]()
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one...
RICHARD M. NIXON![]()
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, music...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in...
ROD STERLING A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.
JEAN BURDEN![]()
The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM![]()
RIME, n. Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad. The verses themselves, as distinguis...
AMBROSE BIERCE![]()
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it
MOLIERE![]()
Ett ärr är vad som uppstår när ordet blir kött.
LEONARD COHEN![]()
Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose.
W. H. AUDEN Jesus is an amazing student. His prose ('The Circuit' by Jaime Jimenez) is a story of a young migran...
DESIREE KIESEL![]()
You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts.
CHINA MIéVILLE Her novels tend to be set in rural Mississippi, and critics have raved about her wonderful, lush pro...
JAMIE KORNEGAY![]()
But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant
JEFFREY EUGENIDES![]()
If you don’t come back to the Keep, then I’ll be right. And every time you see me, I’ll be ins...
MARIA V. SNYDER And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a wind...
BIBLE I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourse...
JENNIFER LOUDEN East of Ordinary There exists the landscape where you take yourself by the hand. Where you walk forw...
JENNIFER LOUDEN Carve out the time. Notice I do not say find the time. That is an absurd and dangerous phrase. Time ...
JENNIFER LOUDEN A public relations firm said that rock star David Lee Roth owes them over $110,000. The strange thin...
CONAN O'BRIEN That means more kids have passed it before getting to 12th grade and don't have it hanging over thei...
FRANK RAFFONE Livia held her spatula as Blake whispered in her ear. “I see us just like this a hundred years fro...
DEBRA ANASTASIA![]()
So what if nobody came?
I’ll have all the ice cream and tea,
And I’ll laugh with mys...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I think we're right where we need to be before league.
EVERETT ALTMAN Following the triumph over Goliath at Stanford Stadium, UC-Davis announced it would change its name ...
BUD WITHERS Over the years, pastor David Gant brought us more to the middle and they (Metropolitan) moved to the...
GEORGE ROMBOLD![]()
I’m sorry and I believe in you and I’ll always be near you, protecting you, and I will never lea...
JENNIFER EGAN![]()
If you need to talk about your childhood, you’re safe with me. If you need to break into a million...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN I am pleased to welcome David into this leadership position. We have seen a growing need for this sy...
JAMIE PORTER![]()
I’ll die if you go. The Jinn will come, and I’ll have one of my fits. You’ll see, I’ll swall...
KHALED HOSSEINI Lisbon will be a 10-win team before the season is over.
DENNIS DACUS![]()
I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.
NEIL GAIMAN Shut it, right there, or I’ll give you a hole that won’t shut.” He pointed the Colt at Clinton...
C.G. FAULKNER![]()
Eloquence is the poetry of prose.
WILLIAM C. BRYANT
PAULEY PERRETTE
This shit is easy peasy, pumpkin peasy, pumpkin pie, muthafucka! GERARD WAY
Prose is architecture and the Baroque age is over. ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over. ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I’ll join you when hell freezes over,” said Neville. J.K. ROWLING And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
BIBLE It's a blessing to be home right before Christmas. It's a whole lot better than being over there.
DERRICK BERRY
I’ll be there someday, I can go the distance.I will find my way, if I can be strong.
I ...
WALT DISNEY COMPANY
People are dumb. I’ll never get over how dumb people are. GILLIAN FLYNN A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a c...
SAMUEL MCCHORD CROTHERS All we've been hearing all week was David and Goliath. Who always won? It was David, right. David be...
ERIK HANSON All we've been hearing all week is, 'David vs. Goliath. Well, in the real story, who won? David, rig...
ERIK HANSEN It's obviously a grave day for David. He spent over a decade in that building, where today he's goin...
HUGH KEEFE
Always be a poet, even in prose. CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole. WARSAN SHIRE
If I keep pushing myself, I’ll finally be somebody. I’ll finally matter. I’ll finally arrive.�... KEVIN DEYOUNG right before you came, I almost completely tipped over like a board -- 'Timber!'
CHARLOTTE AYANNA Okay, I’ll just jump right out and say it. I have anxiety issues.
SHANNON CELEBI That's pretty much the situation throughout the country.
MICHAEL RIGHT
I’ll love you, dear, I’ll love youTill China and Africa meet,
And the river jumps ov...
W.H. AUDEN I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of th...
JEFFERY DEAVER
I think David is a true student of the game. I told him (before Connecticut), 'David, if you keep ju... RICK PITINO I really do want to be out there with those guys. Right now, I'm going to keep thinking it over befo...
CURTIS SUMPTER Hoes always on a nigga dick when he got money but when a nigga broke a nigga ain't shit.
RUPAM DAS
I’ll never be able to give you everything you deserve, but I’ll definitely spend the rest of my ... COLLEEN HOOVER I've stated before that nine and 10 are my concerns and David is another option there,
COLIN COOPER
Our poetry in the eighteenth century was prose; our prose in the
seventeenth, poetry. A.W. HARE AND J.C. HARE I’ll be your friend in daylight. I’ll treat you as a comrade in every gas-lit ballroom. But alon...
COURTNEY MILAN I won't be attempting to write Jane Austen-style prose - that would be suicidal. But I will atte...
VAL MCDERMID
The dog may be wonderful prose, but only the cat is poetry FRENCH PROVERB
I’ll still be missing you as much as ever. I’l still smile at the memory of you. I’ll still be... JERRY SPINELLI It shows what doing the right thing will do for you. There's something to be said for that.
BEFORE DAVID VEEDER I never in my wildest dreams thought that I'd get this opportunity.
BEFORE DAVID VEEDER We fought forest fires together, like for two weeks on the fire lines, 12 hours a day, so we know a ...
BEFORE DAVID VEEDER When it did, it really hurt, and that's when I started getting trouble. It was like $280,000 we lost...
BEFORE DAVID VEEDER It was always just people's junk I put together because they wanted to sell it.
BEFORE DAVID VEEDER When he showed up, I wasn't looking for him, but he said he would, and sure enough he did.
BEFORE DAVID VEEDER Wavy Gravy was the flavor that I cut my teeth on. There were over 750 variations before we hit the r...
ARNOLD CARBONE So David prevailed over the Philistine with a sling and with a stone, and smote the Philistine, and ...
BIBLE I will never provide you hoes with entertainment, I'll just sit back and watch as you make a fool ou...
RICHARD DANIELS
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. DAVID HARE
Out beyond ideasof wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field.
I’ll meet you the...
KHALED HOSSEINI I want my prose to be as clear as a pane of glass.
TRACY KIDDER
Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time. RICHARD CARLSON And David said to Joab, and to all the people that were with him, Rend your clothes, and gird you wi...
BIBLE
When I discover who I am, I’ll be free. RALPH ELLISON Sweetheart, wherever you are, that’s where I’ll be. Forever.
SAMANTHA CHASE
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: t... EUGENIO MONTALE
Sometimes I go, 'Wow, this is a director I really, really want to work with,' like David Cro... HOLLY HUNTER
I’ll try to be around and about. But if I’m not, then you know that I’m behind your eyelids, a... TERENCE MCKENNA
I’ll repeat phrases over and over in a spiral and use the shape to design a building. Would you re... JAROD KINTZ It's up to David (Butt, driver) now. It's quite amazing how well this horse has thrived over here. H...
PAUL KERR There are times when relationships need to be prioritised over what is right. And there are times wh...
AMIT AHLAWAT I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid ...
TABLO Guess I’ll never be wise enough to roll a joint
YAMIN RASHEED Women are women: the most beautiful creatures, I love and respect. But hoes and tricks, gets slapped...
2SHADDY I thought it was a hoot. It's kind of too bad that you get the enthusiasm right before the season's ...
LAURA WOOD
You can dance in the storm. Don't wait for the rain to be over before because it might take too long... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
The simple Wordsworth . . . / Who, both by precept and example, shows / That prose is verse, and ver... LORD BYRON
I may think of you softly from time to time. But I’ll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you ... ARTHUR MILLER You tend to be very, very cautious this time. And it was nice to get excited about something differe...
LIZ BROWN
You know that place between sleep and awake, that place where you still remember dreaming? That’s ... J.M. BARRIE They won't be a right be a right time, Thea, it doesn't exist. Just get it over with
CATHERINE GREENMAN
Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Poetry is opposed to science, and pros... SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollecte... WILLIAM SHENSTONE Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama.
MICHIKO KAKUTANI
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one... RICHARD M. NIXON
Who among us has not, in moments of ambition, dreamt of the miracle of a form of poetic prose, music... CHARLES BAUDELAIRE The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in...
ROD STERLING A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem.
JEAN BURDEN
The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes. WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM
RIME, n. Agreeing sounds in the terminals of verse, mostly bad. The verses themselves, as distinguis... AMBROSE BIERCE
Good Heavens! For more than forty years I have been speaking prose without knowing it MOLIERE
Ett ärr är vad som uppstår när ordet blir kött. LEONARD COHEN
Yet no one hears his own remarks as prose. W. H. AUDEN Jesus is an amazing student. His prose ('The Circuit' by Jaime Jimenez) is a story of a young migran...
DESIREE KIESEL
You'd love a bit of pomp: that way in later years you might invoke end-of-empire ghosts. CHINA MIéVILLE Her novels tend to be set in rural Mississippi, and critics have raved about her wonderful, lush pro...
JAMIE KORNEGAY
But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant JEFFREY EUGENIDES
If you don’t come back to the Keep, then I’ll be right. And every time you see me, I’ll be ins... MARIA V. SNYDER And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a wind...
BIBLE I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourse...
JENNIFER LOUDEN East of Ordinary There exists the landscape where you take yourself by the hand. Where you walk forw...
JENNIFER LOUDEN Carve out the time. Notice I do not say find the time. That is an absurd and dangerous phrase. Time ...
JENNIFER LOUDEN A public relations firm said that rock star David Lee Roth owes them over $110,000. The strange thin...
CONAN O'BRIEN That means more kids have passed it before getting to 12th grade and don't have it hanging over thei...
FRANK RAFFONE Livia held her spatula as Blake whispered in her ear. “I see us just like this a hundred years fro...
DEBRA ANASTASIA
So what if nobody came? I’ll have all the ice cream and tea,
And I’ll laugh with mys...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN I think we're right where we need to be before league.
EVERETT ALTMAN Following the triumph over Goliath at Stanford Stadium, UC-Davis announced it would change its name ...
BUD WITHERS Over the years, pastor David Gant brought us more to the middle and they (Metropolitan) moved to the...
GEORGE ROMBOLD
I’m sorry and I believe in you and I’ll always be near you, protecting you, and I will never lea... JENNIFER EGAN
If you need to talk about your childhood, you’re safe with me. If you need to break into a million... CHRISTINE FEEHAN I am pleased to welcome David into this leadership position. We have seen a growing need for this sy...
JAMIE PORTER
I’ll die if you go. The Jinn will come, and I’ll have one of my fits. You’ll see, I’ll swall... KHALED HOSSEINI Lisbon will be a 10-win team before the season is over.
DENNIS DACUS
I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage. NEIL GAIMAN Shut it, right there, or I’ll give you a hole that won’t shut.” He pointed the Colt at Clinton...
C.G. FAULKNER
Eloquence is the poetry of prose. WILLIAM C. BRYANT
Kant in fact offers four distinct arguments in defence of the necessity and importance of examples i... 
[I]t is important to underscore Kant’s basic point that the finitude of the human condition implie... 
I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil... 
The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar... 
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k... 
Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail. 
The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar... 
It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik... 
Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i... 
I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th... 
Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time. 
I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses. 
You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything. 
Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth... 
I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood... 
People use irony as a defense mechanism. 
Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and ... 
I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go... 
I like time off. I'm not a workaholic. 
I've had an awful lot of good fortune. 
Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is. 
Let me tell you, 10,000 is an intimate room. Believe me. I want to be able to connect to everybody i... 
All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger... 
The law always limits every power it gives. 
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million differe... 
Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination. 
False modesty can be worse than arrogance. 
If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve. 
What I value most in my friends is loyalty. 
I'm a photographer, period. I love photography, the immediacy of it. I like the craft, the idea ... 
Language itself changes slowly, but the Internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you ... 
I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to... 
A poet could write volumes about diners, because they're so beautiful. They're brightly lit,... 
Smoking calms me down. It's enjoyable. I don't want politicians deciding what is exciting in... 
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my fi... 
The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. T... 
I'm a walking, talking enigma. 
Dementia is our most-feared illness, more than heart disease or cancer. 