Alice Oswald Quotes

A dead tree, cut into planks and read from one end to the other, is a kind of line graph, with dates down one side and height along the other, as if trees, like mathematicians, had found a way of turning time into form.

Alice Oswald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimeTreeTreesEndDownKind

I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me.

Andrew Rannells

MeOffNebraskaStillShake

I admired Stephen Daldry very much; I think he's a brilliant director, and also, I feel close to him because he has a lot of theater behind him. He's also a man of great imagination and a lovely sense of humor.

Max von Sydow

GreatHumorImaginationManThink

What's important in a cellar is having wines that have a broad range of drinkability, which California Cabernet does. Wines with a broad range of drinkability give you a lot of flexibility; they are the sort of wines that make me feel secure. I think of my wine cellar as security - if the apocalypse comes, I can just go down to the cellar.

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

MeThinkWineFeelYouSecurity

Men mark the passion of Christ, and print it on their heart somewhat to follow it. It was the most voluntary passion that ever was suffered, and the most painful. It was most voluntary, and so most meritorious.

John Wycliffe

PassionHeartMenFollowPainful

I've dyed my hair a million times and it looks terrible, always. It just looks fake. And it doesn't make me look that much younger.

John Slattery

MeHairFakeLookLooksAlways

My own personal melting pot has no room for Hendrix or heavy metal, filled as it is with European ancestors such as Debussy, Sibelius, Bartok, Lutoslawski, and Ligeti.

Steven Stucky

PersonalMy OwnAncestorsHeavy Metal

'EastEnders' keeps me so busy - that is where I'm at and I can't see that changing too soon. There's nothing that has quite got the punch of an 'EastEnders' script.

Steve McFadden

MeBusyNothingSeePunchChanging

The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

Mary Higgins Clark

TruthHateMeDoorTruth IsPerson

I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we are never going to bring a child into this wicked world,' but we had children by the dozen and got married.

Doris Lessing

ChildrenWarChildWorldNeverUs

A postsecondary education is the ticket to economic success in America.

Arne Duncan

EducationSuccessAmericaEconomic

I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.

Willie Stargell

EarlyYearsOutcastPartRaised

Everything in the world is conducted by gradual process. This seems to be the great principle of harmony in the universe.

William Godwin

GreatWorldProcessUniverseHarmony

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