Alice Oswald Quotes

Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas or rags; and they quickly fill up with un-things: old legs and wings and heads and hollow abdomens and body bags of wasps.

Alice Oswald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WingsBodySmokeLegsOldMist

I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.

Andrew Wyeth

PeopleMeWanderFindOutFields

Universities such as Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard all began as Jesus-inspired efforts to love God with all ones' mind.

John Ortberg

LoveGodMindHarvardTo LoveBegan

There's an excellent movie we have on TCM called 'It Happened on Fifth Avenue,' which was originally going to be directed by Frank Capra... but just before he was going to start working on it, he came across this story called 'The Greatest Gift.' And that turned into 'It's a Wonderful Life.'

Robert Osborne

LifeStartGiftStoryGreatest Gift

Nobody knew they needed a smart phone, an automobile, or even a cheeseburger from a drive through window.

Michael Gerber

SmartWindowDrivePhoneNobody

Languages and cultures are disappearing at an enormously fast rate, and many of them are in Canada. These are extreme examples of removal of freedom of expression - to actually lose a language and the ability to express that culture.

John Ralston Saul

FreedomCultureLanguageLoseCanada

I'll be damned if I want most folks out there to do unto me what they do unto themselves.

Toni Cade Bambara

MeWantOutMostThemselvesFolks

L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.

Michael Moore

CityTalkCruelHospitalsAbout

I prefer my friends and family not to watch anything I do.

Cole Sprouse

FamilyFriends And FamilyFriends

I was at a point where I was ready to say I am what I am because of what I am and if you like me I'm grateful, and if you don't, what am I going to do about it?

Anne Bancroft

GratefulI AmMeYouI Am What I Am

I am a bad planner, and my friends would vouch for it.

Anushka Shetty

I AmFriendsBadWouldPlannerAm

I've been trying to learn to ski for years, but there's something about being 6-foot-5 and falling that's not appealing.

Tyler Perry

LearnTryingFallingYearsSomething

Sometimes people hear that you help somebody or you said something that really resonated with them that they really needed to hear. Sometimes people get motivated to go and do stuff. That makes me feel really good because I feel like I'm affecting people in a good way.

Tina Knowles

GoodPeopleMeFeelHelpYou

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