Tony Harrison Quotes

I spent a lot of time on recce. It is a kind of creative chaos, but I like the sense of creative serendipity.

Tony Harrison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 30, 1937

Topics

TimeCreativeChaosKindSerendipity

We have this American president, Obama, born of an African father, who is saying we will not give you aid if you don't embrace homosexuality. We ask, was he born out of homosexuality? We need continuity in our race, and that comes from the woman, and no to homosexuality.

Robert Mugabe

FatherWomanSayingAmericanYou

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

Robert Harris

PoliticsVictoryForwardNeverJust

My theme for philanthropy is the same approach I used with technology: to find a need and fill it.

An Wang

TechnologyFindNeedSameTheme

I sometimes feel that I have been born to attract controversy.

Amitabh Bachchan

FeelBornSometimesControversyBeen

I've always treated money with respect, but I don't really think about money - I try to avoid it, because I don't like what money does to people. I find if you get too much money involved, people get corrupted.

RJ Mitte

RespectMoneyPeopleThinkYouFind

To watch Lin Manuel Miranda... you could not make a better spokesperson for Broadway in a laboratory.

Rory O'Malley

BetterYouWatchBroadwayLaboratory

They say baseball is a slow game. It sure doesn't seem that way when you're in the dugout. You think you have it figured out, but things come up quick.

Mike Quade

BaseballGameThinkSlowYouSay

If I could have a family and a home one night, and all of it's gone the next, that must mean that life has the capacity to change. And then I thought, 'Whoa! That means that just as change happens to me, I can cause change in my life.'

Liz Murray

LifeFamilyChangeHomeMeNight

There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades.

Juan Williams

PresidentCorporateDecadesHighest

I write the black experience in America, and contained within that experience, because it is a human experience, are all the universalities.

August Wilson

ExperienceBlackAmericaHumanWrite

Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.

Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

LanguageLittleCannotShallAttempt

You spend your childhood wanting to get out from your house and wanting to get away and out into the real world, and then as adults, we start to learn that things are not what we thought they were.

Wyck Godfrey

ChildhoodWorldStartThoughtLearn

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