Alice Oswald Quotes

There's a lot of rage in my head. I like the friction that means there is nothing relaxing about writing a poem. I can't afford to relax in any area of life. You have to keep your senses awake to all the complacency that kicks in - particularly for the English.

Alice Oswald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeComplacencyRelaxWritingYou

If you're great, that means you're freaked out that the next day you're not going to be great. You keep trying.

Jimmy Iovine

GreatDayTryingYouOutGoing

It had run as a column - I had worked at the paper since 1976, but the column had been running for 13 years, and I think it was a strong column, criticizing the war when the paper was supporting it.

Robert Scheer

WarStrongThinkRunYearsPaper

Why are men talking about what clothes they're wearing? It's so unmanly, I think. It's like Versailles before the Revolution, without the style.

Rupert Everett

StyleMenRevolutionThinkTalking

My parents taught me to do whatever makes you happy - follow your bliss. That's why I don't make a lot of movies. I'm very meat and potatoes when it comes to work, putting in eight hours each day. I only do what I love.

Mike Myers

WorkLoveDayHappyParentsMe

I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.

Mike Tyson

BelieveI BelieveNutCase

I only wore makeup when I went onstage.

Little Richard

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Today the eyes of orthodox Jews of earth are fixed upon Palestine.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

TodayEyesEarthJewsPalestine

A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game.

Doug Collins

JobTeamGameChanceCoachingYou

Even before I was working off-Broadway, there were lots of different TV shows that I would actually say 'no' to, and my agents would be like, 'Are you crazy?' but they stuck with me because they know the kind of things that excite me.

Corey Hawkins

MeCrazyYouKnowSayKind

I'm sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain't me.

Anthony Bourdain

LifeWorkDisciplineFocusMeKind

The rapid increase in the production and transportation of crude oil requires additional vigilance for the continued safe movement of this commodity.

Anthony Foxx

TransportationOilMovementSafe

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

Audre Lorde

WordsSpeakBetterSilentWillOur

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