Robert Pinsky Quotes

I am a frustrated saxophone player. If I could, I would abandon all of my books, and I would trade it all if I could play the way people I admire play.

Robert Pinsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

I AmPeoplePlayAdmireWayTrade

I have six sisters, so I assumed I'd have a girl. Learning I was having a boy was really weird.

Melissa Joan Hart

LearningGirlWeirdBoySixSisters

His life was one long extravaganza, like living inside a Faberge egg.

John Lahr

LifeLongEggLivingInsideLike

And bitter waxed the fray; Brother with brother spake no word When they met in the way.

Jean Ingelow

BrotherWayBitterWordMetWaxed

I know easyJet is not luxury, but we certainly don't charge for wheelchairs or take away essentials. You have to make the passengers reasonably comfy for the sake of health.

Stelios Haji-Ioannou

HealthLuxuryYouKnowTakeAway

Mummy weighed sweets and nuts so that everyone would get exactly the same amount. During the year, everything is measured roughly, but at Christmas, it has to be absolutely fair. That's why it's such a strenuous time.

Tove Jansson

TimeYearWhyChristmasFairNuts

There's a reason why I do anxious characters - it comes from a lot of personal anxiety. The great thing is, having that history, it's really fun to bring that into the characters... and play with it.

Tony Hale

HistoryGreatFunAnxietyPlayWhy

Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud.

Boyle Roche

SkyWillSmellRatAirSee

The Turkish government will never tolerate the creation of a Kurdish state.

Peter Bergen

GovernmentCreationWillNeverState

The Left is correctly wary of talk about nonhumans in the key of Nature and its spiritual partner, humanity.

Timothy Morton

NatureSpiritualPartnerKeyTalk

I came to New York, and it was fascinating and intimidating and yielding, and all the stuff it's supposed to be. But whatever the abstract essence I was seeking, I couldn't find exactly that.

Richard Greenberg

New YorkFindNewWhateverAbstract

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

Lewis Gordon Pugh

GreatSoccerLittleRugbySeemGet

Normally, the market peaks before bad news emerges. That's what happened in 1929, and that's what happened in 2000.

Kenneth Fisher

BadNewsBad NewsMarketHappened

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