Alice Oswald Quotes

Topsoil is a place of digestion. It sucks and chews things into smaller pieces. When it's hungry, it turns grey and stony; when it's thirsty, it opens thousands of cracked lips. Subsoil is more skeletal: it doesn't digest.

Alice Oswald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LipsPlaceGreyMoreHungryPieces

Whoever is president, my first priority is the same - as always. I look for what's best for West Virginia and the nation as a whole.

Joe Manchin

BestLookPresidentFirstNation

Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what it sees, too. That is where the humor, the satire lies, in the difference between what he thinks he sees and reality as we see it.

Jim Backus

HumorMindRealityGenerationSee

The voice is something very mysterious. It's difficult to say what is inside a voice that moves people.

Andrea Bocelli

PeopleVoiceSayInsideDifficult

At the next General Election, voters face a clear choice: deregulation and less interference in everyday life with the Conservatives, or yet more regulation and interference under Mr Blair.

John Redwood

LifeFaceChoiceElectionEveryday

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

John Ray

AlgebraMetaphysicsArithmetic

Contraceptives should be used on every conceivable occasion.

Spike Milligan

UsedShouldEveryOccasion

I think clothes are very much a representation of your attitude and the way you feel. I really love to be dressed down, though.

Trey Songz

LoveAttitudeThinkClothesYouWay

Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

FailureConfidenceYouLoseWill

Let the little fairy in you fly!

Rufus Wainwright

FlyYouFairyLittle

Go learn the language. Go take some acting lessons. Start from zero like everybody else.

Roselyn Sanchez

StartLanguageLearnActingGoTake

You can bullied as a young model, but there was a point where I found my voice, effectively.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

VoiceYouYoungPointWhereModel

We won the Cold War because we showed nuclear vigilance and diligence.

Chuck Fleischmann

WarColdDiligenceCold WarBecause

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