Alice Oswald Quotes

That is the best instruction you could ever give a poet: whether you're examining a bad line in a poem or a bad motive for action, keep well your repining - meaning, don't ignore the honest muttering in your head.

Alice Oswald

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BestActionIgnoreMeaningYouBad

I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos-especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom... Rather than starting inside, I start outside and reach the mental through the physical.

Jim Morrison

FreedomI AmMeStartRoadReach

Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.

Jim Woodring

SayMoreSomethingWorthwhileComics

There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.

John Bolton

New YorkBuildingLostNewUnited

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.

Robert Shea

ReligionBehaviorEnoughOutRule

Anthropologists are a connecting link between poets and scientists; though their field-work among primitive peoples has often made them forget the language of science.

Robert Graves

ScienceLanguageForgetConnecting

I think right after 'Up in the Air' everyone wanted me to play the girl from 'Up in the Air,' and it took a little while for people to think of me as an actress from a film that they liked instead of just that character.

Anna Kendrick

GirlCharacterPeopleMeThinkPlay

I've talked to some drummers who seem to have a very hard time staying in shape on the road, including some drummers touring with high-profile acts that don't have to live on fast food every night.

Matt Cameron

LiveTimeFoodNightRoadFast

Cop families have guns in their houses. It's a bigger question for mothers. When is the right time to introduce to your children the things that could hurt them? But not having the knowledge could hurt them.

Amy Carlson

KnowledgeChildrenTimeHurtRight

Sometimes we just sit around and sit on our hands and don't do anything because it's like, 'Hey, that's not my problem.' You can't do that when you're a superhero.

Mike Colter

ProblemHandsYouSometimesAnything

For whatever reason, every project I do becomes sort of a cult, or a cultish show, you know, like 'Battlestar,' or even a film I did years ago, 'Kalifornia,' people refer to it as a cult film.

Michelle Forbes

PeopleYouKnowProjectReasonFilm

A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

InjusticeNeverKingdomLasts

Mom was a nurse's aide. She worked in various hospitals. She took care of us that way, and we ate government cheese. I survived.

Loni Love

GovernmentMomCareCheeseWayShe

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Alice Oswald