Peter Davison Quotes

The trouble with the performance poets is that they don't seem to have read anything. So there is not a real sense of the poetic tradition in their work.

Peter Davison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 27, 1928

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It was very deliberate that Daring Fireball wasn't defined as a Mac site or an Apple site, and this was fortuitous.

John Gruber

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Business gives you a massive high. Doing a great deal, coming up with an inspirational solution... It's very addictive. But it doesn't last long. In isolation, it's a bit sterile. It doesn't reward the soul.

John Caudwell

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Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

May Sarton

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My parents were working performers, so obviously I saw that there wasn't a lot of fairy tale going on there. It was a precarious world. One that they were deeply committed to and deeply loved, but one that required a lot of hard work.

Megan Follows

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The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.

Matthew Sweet

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The pension system ties you to companies much longer in Japan.

Masayoshi Son

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The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat.

Roy Blount, Jr.

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I've never been someone who is cast for having a lovely figure but for whatever qualities I could possibly bring to a role, so I'm still castable.

Miriam Margolyes

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Of course I was bullied and of course I was called names - my last name is Weir. That's very, very close to 'weird,' or 'queer' and any of those words. But I've never been anyone to cry over spilled milk or be upset because kids don't like me, or people don't like me... It makes my skin stronger and thicker. And why cry? Your mascara runs.

Johnny Weir

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Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.

Bruce Greenwood

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I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.

Philip Johnson

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We view South Africa as one of our closest strategic partners in the developing world and in the African continent.

Pratibha Patil

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