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Alissa Quart Quotes

Piercing minds go mute around poetry. It is imagined to be overly technical, like advanced arithmetic; otherworldly, priestess-like; suffocatingly personal; excessively decorative; exhaustingly bourgeois or tiringly avant-garde.

Alissa Quart

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: 1972

Topics

Poetry Go Personal Minds Technical

You come to a point where you give up on holding yourself to a perfect feminist ideal - it just feels stifling.

Jessica Valenti

Yourself You Perfect Point Up Give

Rich Mullins was the uneasy conscience of Christian music. He didn't live like a star. He'd taken a vow of poverty so that what he earned could be used to help others.

Amy Grant

Live Music Help Others Rich Help

We are better than anyone, ain't we? Except for the Eagles, the Eagles are better than us.

Sid Vicious

Better Eagles Us Than Except Anyone

Comedy is all about the pause.

Ron White

Comedy Pause About

I haven't found a heel that's been too high for me yet.

RuPaul

Me High Been Found Too Heel

Everything great in science and art is simple. What can be less complicated than the greatest discoveries of humanity - gravitation, the compass, the printing press, the steam engine, the electric telegraph?

Jules Verne

Science Great Art Simple Humanity

I can't imagine being on one of those shows where people have to look nice.

Josh McDermitt

People Look Nice Imagine Where

When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.

Derrick Rose

Thought NBA Playing Just Younger

Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.

Chelsea Clinton

Day Every Day Feeling Point Some

There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing.

Clarence Day

Art Writing Reading Thinking Well

Once men are caught up in an event, they cease to be afraid. Only the unknown frightens men.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Men Unknown Afraid Up Event Caught

In elementary school, I did well in science, but I was a poor writer. When I got to high school, I failed all my courses.

Avi

Science School High School Poor High