Tony Harrison Quotes

One of the important things about familiar form and metricality is that it draws attention to the physical nature of language: the spell-binding nature of it and the ceremony of articulation.

Tony Harrison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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You're always putting yourself into your work. There's no separation; it's just how you use yourself and transform.

Jenny Slate

WorkYourselfYouSeparationAlways

I went to School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, and we had a bunch of singing classes. My first job in New York was an Off-Broadway musical.

Anna Camp

JobSchoolNew YorkSingingNewHad

There are significant human rights abuses in China. In some areas, the situation is worse today than in the past. In other areas, there have been improvements. We will recognize the latter, and be critical of the former.

Max Baucus

TodayPastSituationWillHuman

I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.

Andy Roddick

PeopleEnjoyInnocentLostBalls

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

John Philip Sousa

PeopleAmericaSheExpectWell

I would say that a lot of the characters I've been attracted to are very vulnerable and they expose themselves emotionally. Not so much in 'The Fighter,' not so much in 'The Master' - I think those are different.

Amy Adams

ThinkSayFighterMasterDifferent

I worry that by losing my temper so much and being so harsh and yelling so much that, by example, I will have taught my daughters to be that way, and I'm now constantly telling them not to do that.

Amy Chua

LosingWorryNowWillWayTemper

Elegance for one society is not elegance for another. It's in the eyes of the beholder.

Louise Wilson

EyesSocietyEleganceBeholder

You must recognize that the way to get the good out of your brother and your sister is not to return evil for evil.

Louis Farrakhan

GoodBrotherSisterEvilYouWay

There is absolutely no doubt that the extraordinary Donna Summer belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Jon Landau

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If there was going to be a pioneer of the plus-size girl of my shape on TV, why not me?

Chrissy Metz

GirlMeWhyShapeGoingPioneer

There's been a lot of times that I thought I'd never work again; I was really bummed out.

Chris Messina

WorkThoughtNeverOutBeenAgain

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