Robert Pinsky Quotes

The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seuss, or Robert Louis Stevenson, and to feel how the child and you are engaging in something that's really basic to the animal, which is passing on in these rhythmic ways, something that came from somewhere.

Robert Pinsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 20, 1940

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BestAnimalPoetryChildFeelYou

I realized I couldn't have one foot in the fiction world and one foot in the nonfiction world, which is why 'Here I Go Again' is so not me. I didn't graduate from high school in the '90s, I never listened to metal music, and I don't time travel.

Jen Lancaster

MusicTimeTravelSchoolMeWorld

I love Bill Murray, but I'm not quite Bill Murray. I wish!

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

LoveWishI WishQuiteI LoveBill

I ended up an actor, did my first professional union gig in 1974, and I've been doing it ever since.

Michael Ironside

DoingProfessionalActorFirstUp

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

John Perry Barlow

WaitingPartyMoralCompassBackbone

By acquiring Biovex, we're continuing the transformation of Amgen into a company that supports therapeutic oncology as well as supportive care oncology.

Roger M. Perlmutter

TransformationCareCompanyWell

Even at the age of 12, I knew I had to become a bodybuilder. I don't know why or how, but I just knew.

Ronnie Coleman

AgeKnowWhyBecomeJustKnew

It's a good pair of jeans and a pair of boots that are comfortable and a T-shirt; that's as far as I go. Getting wild with it might be a nice jacket, but I'm not a high-fashion guy for sure.

Luke Combs

GoodBootsGoNiceJacketT-Shirt

You get to know them, they get to know you and see if they like you. Then they'll vote on you to become a prospect. You have to be sponsored by a Hells Angel.

Chuck Zito

AngelYouKnowVoteBecomeSee

I really wanted to work hard on my lyrics.

Brody Armstrong

WorkWork HardHardLyricsWanted

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

Arthur Ashe

AttitudeLooseIdealMentallyTight

There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.

Alice Miller

PastPeopleTherapyWithoutBeing

Ninety percent of the preparation we do as actors is just jive. It doesn't do anything.

William H. Macy

PreparationAnythingJustPercent

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