Andrew Motion Quotes

Pretty much the day I stopped being laureate, the poems that had been few and far between came back to me, like birds in the evening nesting in a tree.

Andrew Motion

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TreeDayMeBirdsEveningBack

A woman who is not ready to have a baby making it work is not a happy ending to me. It's a personal nightmare.

Jenny Slate

WorkWomanHappyMeBabyEnding

I have English family in Northhampton and have been to England numerous times.

Steve Kanaly

FamilyEnglishBeenEnglandNumerous

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.

Steven Wright

ThinkingFastGoLeftIndyWatched

If you wonder why a man would shave before spending all day in his bass boat, you have never seen an angler's face projected in high-def on the JumboTron at a Classic weigh-in.

Steve Rushin

DayManBoatFaceYouWonder

My own field, the prevention of genetic disorders in babies, has been possible only because of humane work on animals.

Robert Winston

WorkPreventionMy OwnPossibleOwn

No government in the world today has explicitly assigned the responsibility for planetary protection to any of its agencies.

Rusty Schweickart

TodayResponsibilityGovernmentWorld

I think it's important to stretch as you get older, but I try to do basically all the things I did when I played, except I can't do them as well and as much.

Mike Ditka

ThinkYouImportantTryThingsWell

After leaving school, I got a job in a department store not dissimilar to Grace Bros in 'Are You Being Served?'

Jasper Carrott

JobSchoolGraceYouLeavingBeing

You can't rush inspiration.

Colson Whitehead

YouInspirationRush

Never give way to melancholy; resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach.

Sydney Smith

HabitWillWayNeverGiveResist

I believe that evolution is a true account of nature, but I think we should try to escape it or transcend it in our society.

Peter Thiel

NatureSocietyBelieveThinkTrue

I was ecstatic when we won - to host the Olympics is one of the biggest opportunities in living memory. It will help change the lives of young people and transform east London.

Sebastian Coe

ChangeMemoryPeopleOpportunities

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