Amy Lowell Quotes

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

Amy Lowell

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 9, 1874 - May 12, 1925

Topics

HappinessOthersStagnationSome

I treat politics kind of like my religion. It's something I believe in, but I don't want to have to make a living at it, because if you make a living at it, you somehow become dishonest.

Jerry Springer

PoliticsReligionTreatBelieveYou

I watch 'The Voice' and 'American Idol,' and I sit in my Brookstone foot massager. It's so exciting at my house.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

VoiceAmericanHouseWatchSitFoot

'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it.

Robert Mankoff

NewCartoonMagazineDidReally

I find in my own writing that only fiction - and rarely, a poem - fully tests me to the kind of limits of what I know and what I feel.

John Updike

MeWritingLimitsFeelFindKnow

Learning great works like the Liszt Sonata or Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' should be a struggle to a certain extent, where you need to labor intensely with your own brain and soul for the meaning of the work instead of cutting and pasting a bunch of stuff together from the Internet and - boom! - there you are with a performance ready to go.

Stephen Hough

WorkLearningGreatStruggleSoul

I love 2Pac, the cadences of 2Pac.

Russ

LoveI Love

I sort of ride the fence on that whole steroid era issue. I don't have a definite opinion like some of my fellow Hall of Famers. Some of the guys were very, very adamant about a person being associated with steroids: 'They'll never be in the Hall of Fame. If they are, I'll never come back.'

Mike Schmidt

RideOpinionFenceBackPersonFame

I think Trump is terrible for comedy. A lot of people say he is great. He's not. You can't joke a joke.

Michelle Wolf

GreatPeopleThinkComedyYouSay

'Cat?' 'Cat' can be anybody from the guy in the gutter to a lawyer, doctor, the biggest man to the lowest man, but if he's in there with a good heart and enjoy the same music together, he's a cat.

Louis Armstrong

GoodMusicHeartTogetherManEnjoy

Belief in oneself and knowing who you are, I mean, that's the foundation for everything great.

Jay-Z

GreatFoundationYouBeliefKnowing

I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.

Dennis Eckersley

AttitudeGameAlwaysThrowWanted

You can spend your whole life in France without ever thinking about the Legion.

Claire Denis

LifeThinkingYouWithoutWhole

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Amy Lowell