Alice Oswald Quotes

It's a relief to hear the rain. It's the sound of billions of drops, all equal, all equally committed to falling, like a sudden outbreak of democracy. Water, when it hits the ground, instantly becomes a puddle or rivulet or flood.

Alice Oswald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: 1966

Topics

RainWaterDemocracySoundDrops

'Have fun' is my message. Be silly. You're allowed to be silly. There's nothing wrong with it.

Jimmy Fallon

FunHave FunSillyYouWrong

After deep exercise of soul I was brought by grace to feel I could entirely.

John Nelson Darby

SoulGraceDeepFeelExerciseAfter

Every time someone buys a cat or a dog from a breeder or a pet shop, a cat on the streets or in an animal shelter loses his or her chance at finding a good home.

Amy Jackson

DogGoodHomeTimePetAnimal

No one intimidates me because I'm not trying to do what you do, because I can't do what you do. I can only do what Mary J. Blige can do, so that relaxes me right there, and it gets me out of the competition and that whole thing.

Mary J. Blige

CompetitionMeTryingYouI CanOut

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

Mike Tyson

PlacesLivedGuys

There's this thin line between knowing something is going to be really hard and saying, 'Yeah, you know, but I still gotta see if I can pull it off.'

Michael Keaton

SayingYouI CanKnowKnowingSee

Scientology is not that different from other religions. And yet, at the same time, we don't have Anglicans doing the things that are alleged to be done in Scientology, at least in the Sea Org.

Louis Theroux

SeaTimeDoingDoneSameReligions

We're phenomenally blessed in the Walla Walla Valley. We have great, complex soil that's nutrient-rich but fairly porous.

Drew Bledsoe

GreatBlessedSoilComplexValley

Winners are people with definite purpose in life.

Denis Waitley

LifePurposePeopleWinnersDefinite

When you're writing in big block paragraphs, you can afford to have a redundant sentence now and then, but the Twitter format requires concision.

Anthony Marra

WritingYouNowNow And ThenBig

There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that's a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than with them.

Asghar Farhadi

WordsCreativePeopleThinkYouSay

I was recruited by every school in the country for football and basketball. And an incident happened in high school, and all that was taken away. No other teams, no other schools were recruiting me anymore.

Allen Iverson

FootballSchoolMeBasketballHigh

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