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Shel Silverstein Quotes

I want to go everywhere, look at and listen to everything. You can go crazy with some of the wonderful stuff there is in life.

Shel Silverstein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: September 25, 1930 - May 10, 1999

Topics

Life Crazy You Look Go Want

There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's something special about writing into a book, to take a blank book and turn it into an actual book.

Writing Book Pen Special Hand Turn

I love stories. But I don't distinguish so much between a short story and a novel. Personally, when I sit down to read a novel or a Chekhov story, I'm seeking the same thing: I'm seeking that same rich portrayal of life in words.

Life Love Words Story Rich Short

The surface of Mars is bathed in ultraviolet light, bathed in radiation. Mars's magnetic field is essentially gone, so the surface of Mars is essentially sterilized.

John M. Grunsfeld

Light Mars Gone Surface Radiation

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

Power Political More Political Power

Thought is made in the mouth.

Thought Mouth Made

The EPA code needs to set forth a clear, regular, and rational system of penalties for violations of its code, with the amount of the penalty set in proportion to the amount of pollutant released by a given defendant, and no penalties imposed in the absence of any pollutant released.

System Rational Absence Clear Code

You look around baseball and when things go south, that type of fan apathy happens.

Baseball You Look Go Apathy Things

As a director, what matters is how you penetrate the soul of the person in front of the camera and let the actor blur the boundaries between the character and the person themselves. In order to achieve that, I try to make people feel at ease, to be mindless of problems and be skinless and give everything to the camera.

Luca Guadagnino

Character Soul People Problems Blur

The Pledge of Allegiance is an important expression of our shared values, and it should be preserved in its current form. I fully support the Pledge of Allegiance and urge my colleagues to do the same.

Support Colleagues Values Important

Golf is meaningless, but it means so much.

Golf Meaningless Means Much

My kids don't call me 'Mom' because I don't want them to. They're Michael's children. It's not that they are not my children, but I had them because I wanted him to be a father.

Father Children Me Mom Want Him

Perhaps I'll work as a director of football. I don't know.

Work Football Know Director Perhaps

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