Simon Armitage Quotes

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.

Simon Armitage

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 26, 1963

Topics

MyselfPoliticsMovingDirection

Crunk music is the music of the South, it pervades every club and nightclub not only in America, but all over the world.

John Singleton

MusicWorldAmericaOverClubOnly

I felt like when I took my weave out, I wasn't pretty, I wasn't noticeable.

Solange Knowles

OutPrettyLikeWeaveFeltTook

I'm an actor. Since I was a teenager, I have had to play different characters, negotiating the cultural expectations of a Pakistani family, Brit-Asian rudeboy culture, and a scholarship to private school. The fluidity of my own personal identity on any given day was further compounded by the changing labels assigned to Asians in general.

Riz Ahmed

FamilyCultureDaySchoolIdentity

I have a little antennae, and even when I'm trying not to be, I'm connected with the bloody zeitgeist.

Roisin Murphy

TryingConnectedLittleEvenBloody

Anecdotal thinking comes naturally; science requires training.

Michael Shermer

ScienceTrainingThinkingNaturally

Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else.

Josh Turner

WorkMarriageChildrenEverything

I realized immediately that this was a terribly important discovery, but I didn't realize how important it would be until we had spent a lot of time in the laboratory studying it.

Donald Johanson

TimeDiscoveryImportantStudying

Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.

Donald Judd

WorkGoodYouMoralityWantWell

I know that sounds corny. And I know you've heard it before. But it's really true: We're so much more than our bodies.

Chrissy Metz

YouKnowTrueMoreCornySounds

I would hate the thought of dying full stop; I've got to be honest with you.

Craig Fairbrass

HateThoughtYouStopDyingHonest

As Cuvier could correctly describe a whole animal by the contemplation of a single bone, so the observer who has thoroughly understood one link in a series of incidents should be able to accurately state all the other ones, both before and after.

Arthur Conan Doyle

AnimalSingleContemplationBoneWho

Every failure is a step to success.

William Whewell

SuccessFailureStepEvery

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