Alice Oswald Quotes

It's the stickiness of earth that makes it problematic - the way it stains your straps and ingrains your hands so you can't quite tell where you start and stop.

Alice Oswald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

StartHandsYouEarthStopWay

I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them.

Jim Balsillie

TechnologyPeopleThinkBuyProducts

Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.

Joan D. Vinge

GirlMoonSheNaiveOutNative

I would like to find a stew that will give me heartburn immediately, instead of at three o clock in the morning.

John Barrymore

MorningFoodMeFindThreeWill

I love playing small towns, but in Sweden, it's sometimes a little bit weird, because all small towns are just so close to bigger cities that people are not as grateful when you show up as they are in Odessa, Texas.

Jens Lekman

LoveGratefulPeopleSmallTexasUp

Floyd Mayweather, he's a safe fighter. He is who he is. He's not going to take any risks.

Luke Rockhold

RisksFighterSafeTakeGoingWho

Instead of blaming everyone and everything else for your problems, pray for God to help you take an inventory of what's been on your mind so you can think about what you've been thinking about.

Joyce Meyer

GodMindProblemsThinkThinking

I think that society is aspiring towards racial indifference, but the reality of life is not that. And so when you meet someone, you can see their race - it's right there on their face - and I feel like it's interesting.

Jay Chandrasekhar

LifeSocietyFaceThinkRealityYou

The industrial age was not about craftspeople trading peer to peer. It was about stopping that. You weren't supposed to be a craftsperson, you were supposed to be an employee.

Douglas Rushkoff

AgeYouEmployeeIndustrialPeer

How you eat is as important as what you eat. If I eat mindlessly while watching television, I get all of the calories and none of the pleasure. Instead, if I eat mindfully, paying attention and savoring what I'm eating, smaller portions of food can be exquisitely satisfying.

Dean Ornish

FoodEatingAttentionYouTelevision

Denied dancing and musical instruments, slaves expressed a hidden tradition of musicality and poetics by tongue and signal.

David Shields

TraditionTongueHiddenDancing

We live in a world in which data convey authority. But authority has a way of descending to certitude, and certitude begets hubris.

Bret Stephens

LiveWorldDataAuthorityWayWhich

Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.

Arlen Specter

PoliticsPeopleToughLongLast

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