Simon Armitage Quotes

I have to make myself write, sometimes. In the space between poems, you somehow forget how to do it, where to begin. It was good to be task - based for a while. I just came downstairs each day, picked the one I was going to do that day, and wrote.

Simon Armitage

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodMyselfDaySpaceYouSometimes

Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.

Jim Mattis

TrustPeopleLongYouAlwaysBeen

People really have come for a dialogue when they go to a stand-up show in the U.K. They say, 'I understand that you have now finished your little comedy monologue; now I have something to say regarding what I've just heard.

John Oliver

PeopleComedyYouGoSayUnderstand

My grandma's the most careful, safe driver in the world. You put her in a rental car, and she's doing doughnuts in the K-Mart parking lot!

Jeff Foxworthy

CarWorldDoingYouSheParking

I always found that Trump had this power about him.

Michael Israel

PowerHimAlwaysFoundTrumpAbout

Without books, we might just melt into the airwaves and be just another set of blips.

John Updike

WithoutMeltMightJustBooksSet

Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty.

Tom Vilsack

LivePovertyYearKnowMoreEarn

I always did what I thought was interesting. I always just did what caught my fantasy. Looking like a woman, that was never the criteria for me. It was always to do drag. And drag is not gender-specific. Drag is just drag. It's exaggeration.

RuPaul

WomanMeLookingThoughtInteresting

By striving to do the impossible, man has always achieved what is possible. Those who have cautiously done no more than they believed possible have never taken a single step forward.

Mikhail Bakunin

ManStepImpossibleForwardStriving

We live in a world where there are many risks, and it's high time we start taking seriously which ones we should be worried about.

Lisa Randall

LiveTimeRisksWorldStartHigh

Take a walk with a turtle. And behold the world in pause.

Bruce Feiler

WalkWorldTurtlePauseTakeBehold

My sister, Shanelle, is so supportive and loving. She's my best friend in the world.

Ariel Winter

FriendBestSisterWorldBest Friend

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

Post Malone

YourselfYouFindOutOrderHang

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