Simon Armitage Quotes

I'd never really been content with just churning out these slim volumes every three or four years. I've always tried to think of poetry as an active ingredient in the language rather than just something that appears between the covers of thin books.

Simon Armitage

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PoetryThinkLanguageThreeNever

On Jan. 30, millions of Iraqis will cast ballots in the country's first fair and free election in decades, marking continued progress in Iraq's transition toward a country built on the pillars of democracy and freedom for all.

Jim Gerlach

FreedomProgressDemocracyFreeWill

If certain books are to be termed 'immigrant fiction,' what do we call the rest? Native fiction? Puritan fiction? This distinction doesn't agree with me.

Jhumpa Lahiri

MeRestImmigrantFictionAgree

I believe in God, because he is the only thing that kept me going. He's my best friend.

Jessica Hahn

FriendGodBestMeBelieveGoing

I have mixed feelings about 'Car 54, Where Are You?' Because we shot it as a musical and whoever the studio head was at Orion, or whoever the powers that be were, cut all but, like, two musical numbers out of it. That is the same as cutting the musical numbers out of 'The Wizard Of Oz'; it wouldn't be that interesting.

John C. McGinley

CarInterestingYouFeelingsNumbers

The entire political class and ruling Wall Street class are zero-percent-interest zombies who talk about 'deflation' in the value of their second, third, and fourth homes. This is paper-deflation, zombie-deflation, and has nothing to do with the real economy.

Max Keiser

ValuePoliticalWallStreetNothing

He is the greatest artist who has embodied, in the sum of his works, the greatest number of the greatest ideas.

John Ruskin

IdeasArtistGreatestWhoHeSum

Ohioans need peace of mind that the water coming out of their tap is safe. It's as simple as that.

Rob Portman

WaterSimplePeaceMindNeedOut

In my twenties, I was a bit of a worrier; it bothered me what people thought of me, what job I was doing.

Michelle Dockery

JobPeopleMeThoughtDoingBit

Let's focus on how we can take someone who is being poorly educated in an American public school and how they are poorly trained for a job, and put in place those opportunities for them to get that education, give their parents choice in education, make it real for them.

Michael Steele

EducationFocusJobSchoolParents

I am proud, but I'm annoyed with myself for not believing in myself enough.

Lizzie Armitstead

MyselfI AmProudEnoughBelieving

No human being will work hard at anything unless they believe that they are working for competence.

William Glasser

WorkWork HardBelieveWillHard

I don't trust anybody who didn't inhale.

Peter Fonda

TrustWhoAnybodyInhale

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