Andrew Motion Quotes

I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and the side that really hasn't got a clue has to be carefully maintained because if you write too knowingly then you get chilly, and if you write too unknowingly you write bollocks that nobody else can understand.

Andrew Motion

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: October 26, 1952

Topics

BalanceMindThoughtDoingYouSide

In preparing my thesis, I have had the pleasure of collecting testimonies from colleagues such as Placido Domingo but also from singing teachers and musicologists. The entire course of study has confirmed what I already thought, that the value and meaning of opera singing, at the beginning of the third millennium, remain intact.

Andrea Bocelli

BeginningValueSingingColleagues

When the object that is produced, the photographic image has the ability to make tears come to your eyes; to inspire you to the point where you have to catch your breath, then nothing else matters.

John Sexton

EyesTearsInspireYouNothing

Everyone likes a burger now and then, and that's absolutely fine.

Steve Easterbrook

BurgerNowNow And ThenEveryone

My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee.

Alton Brown

GoodFeelingNeverAlwaysCommittee

Many who become theologians in our time think their task is to try to determine how much of what has passed for Christianity they still need to believe and yet still be able to think of themselves as Christians.

Stanley Hauerwas

TimeBelieveThinkBecomeTryNeed

In the past, the Republican Party has depended on unified support at election time from Evangelical Christians. But times are changing!

Tony Campolo

TimePastSupportPartyElection

I did everything, I used to be a drag queen, I used to be a stripper.

DeObia Oparei

QueenEverythingDragUsedDid

I am 'Mr. Karaoke Guy' in the car completely. I just go with it and don't care what anyone else thinks - I'm singing, man!

Drake Bell

CarManI AmSingingCareGo

The FBI's Counter-Intelligence Program would work hand-in-hand with police departments, literally planning attacks on Black Panther Party offices throughout the United States of America. They did this over a period of time.

Bobby Seale

WorkTimePoliceBlackPlanningFBI

I'm a modern girl with old-fashioned sensibilities.

Annaleigh Ashford

GirlModernOld-Fashioned

As you get a little older and start drinking a bit more coffee, you start talking about big-boy things a little more.

Synyster Gates

CoffeeStartTalkingYouMoreGet

The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.

Peter L. Berger

CultureNegativeDoingGlobalization

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