Rod McKuen Quotes

For many people, I was a phase, a part of the period of growing up. People ask me why I connected. It was presumptuous of me to say, but I'm Everyman. The difference is I put my thoughts into words.

Rod McKuen

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 29, 1933 - January 29, 2015

Topics

WordsPeopleMeThoughtsGrowing Up

I just want to make music as long as I can and reach as many people as I can.

Mayer Hawthorne

MusicPeopleReachLongI CanWant

I don't want people saying, 'Should we get a female director?' I want to hear, 'Should we get a great director for this movie?'

Angelina Jolie

GreatPeopleSayingWantDirector

Designer pricing should hurt, but it shouldn't kill you. You wince when you hand over your AmEx, but once you get it home, you never regret it. You divide it by how many days you're using it, and suddenly it becomes affordable.

Michael Bastian

HomeRegretHurtYouHandNever

We expect elections to have contribution limits, and we expect to follow them.

Steve Bullock

LimitsContributionFollowExpect

The primary thing I should do, apart from being a good husband, brother, son, and friend, is to be a citizen activist. But I'm afraid it takes away from the writing. Not that anything depends on whether I put an essay in 'The Nation' or not. But you want to participate.

Tony Kushner

GoodFriendSonBrotherWritingYou

When we're talking about people not wearing clothes or being naked or whatever, that's a whole lot of people. And I said this: if that's their thing, and they feel comfortable doing that, then whatever; that works for them, but you don't have to go that route if you don't want to. We don't want people to think that that's what you have to do.

Rozonda Thomas

PeopleThinkDoingTalkingClothes

Retiring is one thing. Being retired is something else altogether.

Mike Wallace

BeingSomethingOne ThingElseThing

You don't have to be a strapping lad to play football.

Luka Modric

FootballYouPlayPlay FootballLad

So much of our fictional medievalism is distorted through a lens of Protestantism and the Reformation, slanted even further through Victorian anti-Catholicism. The depiction of actual medieval attitudes toward the Church is remarkably rare.

Judith Tarr

ChurchLensThroughRareEvenMuch

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'

Jayson Blair

MeBelieveDemonsRaceMy OwnOwn

I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.

Chris Hemsworth

LifeLovePeopleBattleApproach

A spontaneous interview feels differently than anything else you see on television.

David Steinberg

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