Robert Adamson Quotes

There's one of my new poems actually - is a good example of where my poetry has ended up. My earlier river poetry was more like a cross between Shelley and Dylan Thomas.

Robert Adamson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: January 19, 1852 - February 8, 1902

Topics

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Sometimes something's got to happen before something is going to happen.

Johan Cruyff

SometimesHappenSomethingGotGoing

You want to have stability in the commercial aspect of your operation.

Andy Taylor

YouWantStabilityYourCommercial

I acknowledge the right of the authorities and the press to satisfy themselves as to whether I am the anthrax mailer. This does not, however, give them the right to smear me and gratuitously make a wasteland of my life in the process. I will not be railroaded.

Steven Hatfill

LifeI AmMeProcessMy LifeWill

Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?

Tom Hodgkinson

WorkMeDoingEnjoyYouLiving

I played soccer. I was really known as an athlete. It was a shock to people that I was doing music. They thought it was really odd.

Mat Kearney

MusicPeopleThoughtDoingSoccer

I don't think we treat people very well in the media, both as customers - and I call them customers - of newspapers and magazines, or TV news, and we don't understand that the greatest story that we could tell, each and every day, is the story of the people around us.

Mike Barnicle

DayPeopleTreatStoryThinkMedia

Dad was an outstanding leader. He'd bring in top thinkers from a wide array of fields - how to fix the Detroit schools, for example. I watched him in these meetings. He listened and probed.

Mitt Romney

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My dog, he's a great dog.

Jon Keyser

DogGreatHe

When I do my hiring in the United States Senate, I look at issues of diversity.

Cory Booker

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I do remember meeting 'The Donald.' He seemed to really enjoy the WrestleMania 4 battle royal. He watched me take a very hard front turnbuckle bump, and it seemed to stun him that I wasn't seriously hurt. Backstage, Trump gave me a big smile and a handshake.

Bret Hart

SmileMeHurtBattleRememberEnjoy

My training was with some old British communists who had organized unions in the '60s and '70s. And their philosophy was, if you can't drink a pint with a man, how are you gonna get him to go on strike and risk his life?

Boots Riley

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I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.

Anne Lamott

WantSpecialSomethingPlain

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