John Cleveland Quotes

My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.

John Cleveland

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: June 16, 1613 - April 29, 1658

Topics

MeTearsWavesKnowRunWill

My knee injury was something serious. To go six months before I could even jog is pretty serious.

Jimmy Graham

GoSeriousPrettySomethingInjury

To go on the road and listen to people sing a cappella - thousands of them - I couldn't do that.

Jimmy Iovine

PeopleRoadGoListenSingThem

I don't think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet contains a lot of videos of squirrels riding skateboards, but it can also be a place that facilitates big conversations about books.

John Green

WorldThinkInternetPlaceRiding

Though it might be invidious to mention individuals, yet I may be allowed to say how much I owe to the constant help of my wife, not quite my first, but much my most consistent collaborator, and over the longest period of years.

Robert Robinson

WifeHelpSayFirstOverYears

I love to create interesting textures with language. You can do it as long as it seems like a discovery.

Robert Morgan

LoveYou Can Do ItLanguageLongYou

I'm not sure if it's cause I'm getting old, but my heels have to be 3.5 inch or less, or a chunky heel.

Solange Knowles

Getting OldOldHeelsInchSure

The main thing that I learned from editing is that most people, when they're making a film, they start too early into the story. They will try to set up the characters, they will try to establish things before the plot actually starts.

Steven Zaillian

PeopleStartStoryEarlyEditingUp

The thing I fail to do is fully comprehend what's given back to me by the audience. You would think you would be a performer partly so you could feel all the appreciation or adulation, but I haven't quite managed that yet.

Michelle Shocked

AppreciationMeThinkFeelYouBack

Years ago, I picked up figure skating. How hard could spins and jumps be, I thought? It's just applied Newtonian physics. After repeatedly falling on my rear end, I realized it was harder than I thought. But it had an upside. That is how I met my wife, who was ice dancing at the Rockefeller Center ice rink.

Michio Kaku

WifeThoughtEndIcePhysicsHard

A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass of gummy bears on the sofa instead of on book tour with my eighth novel.

Louise Penny

DisciplineI AmBookLazyWithout

My sister is a good story of resiliency. She had a full ride at UC Davis, but she left school to go to the Philippines - and then she decided to go back to school in her 40s, which surprised me. She went to UC Berkeley, and I think she was one of two African Americans in her class at Haas. She's really impressive.

Chili Davis

GoodRideSchoolMeSisterThink

I remember when I was - I must've been 17 or 18 years old - I remember 'The Empire Strikes Back' had a big cliffhanger ending, and it was, like, three years before the next one came out.

Peter Jackson

EndingRememberBackThreeOldOut

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