Home
Topics
Authors
:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z

Sylvia Plath Quotes

If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on 'Alice in Wonderland' and believing in magic for years and years.

Sylvia Plath

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: October 27, 1932 - February 11, 1963

Topics

Life Personality Ocean Start My Life

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more.

Jill Lepore

Society Prosperity More Taxes Pay

For me, Minneapolis will always have a special place in my heart.

Mayte Garcia

Heart Me Place Special Will Always

I've been in this business for years and I'm still befuddled by the ways of this town.

Meg Ryan

Business Years Been Still Town Ways

Whenever you finish an artwork and the viewer comes and views it, at that moment you've given up control.

Jeff Koons

Moment Control You Finish Up Views

'Islamist terrorism.' The very phrase is contentious. No one wants to make this problem harder by unfairly branding and alienating a quarter of the world's population, and even in this construction, no one should be thinking this means all of Islam or all Muslims.

Michael Hayden

Construction World Thinking Problem

We shouldn't just consider the desire of government to do what it wants to do. We should always consider the resistance of people. The culture of Iranian people doesn't let the government drag people into deep trouble or backlash. Maybe government wants it, but the culture doesn't let it go on.

Shirin Ebadi

Culture Government People Deep Go

Studios, to cut through the clutter, want recognisable titles. But that does not excuse you, as a writer, from having an original story.

Roberto Orci

Story You Want Through Clutter Cut

Peggy Guggenheim is a real hero to have done what she did in a man's world, as the art world still is.

Roisin Murphy

Art Hero Man World Done She

When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.

Michelle Yeoh

Future Today Past Face You Bad

The dean of the American Film Institute has written that I'm one of the very few auteurs in America. I've had freedom for 40 years to create art that is totally personal and is what I believe in.

Lloyd Kaufman

Freedom Art Believe American America

You wake up white, and you think about certain things every day. You wake up black, and you think about certain things. You wake up Chinese, and you think certain things - but those things aren't major. What's major is that you are good at your craft.

Judith Jamison

Good Day Wake Up Black Think You

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.

Diane Johnson

Job Writing End Understanding Theme