Sharon Olds Quotes

My poems - I don't even like the sound of that, in a way. Not that anyone else wrote them. But we know that only people who are really close to us care about our personal experience.

Sharon Olds

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 19, 1942

Topics

ExperiencePeopleCareKnowPersonal

If we all did as Jesus did when he helped the poor, we wouldn't need the government.

Jerry Falwell, Jr.

GovernmentPoorNeedHeJesusDid

I would rather be the candidate of the NAACP than the NRA.

John F. Kerry

WouldCandidateRatherNAACPThan

How are we supposed to get old? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to get old? My kids tell me, 'We want you to look like a grandmother.' I agree with them. I want to look like a grandmother.

Andie MacDowell

MeYouLookWantGrandmotherOld

I'm nearly always at home at the weekends; that's important for every working woman today, not just me. I don't encourage people to come in at the weekend and work; I encourage people to go home and create great families.

Angela Ahrendts

WorkHomeTodayGreatWomanPeople

My mom calls me 'baby face.' It's very embarrassing.

Stephen Colletti

MeBabyMomFaceEmbarrassingVery

Audiences want great story telling; it's why white people watch my show 'Black in America.' It's why black people watch 'Latina in America.' All of that is statistically shown and proven but it was because it was good story telling about people who were outsiders.

Soledad O'Brien

GoodGreatPeopleStoryBlackWhite

A teenage foot that never tapped to 'Heartbreak Hotel' in the '50s probably belonged to a hopeless grind.

Molly Ivins

HotelGrindHopelessNeverFoot

People of my age who went to college, go into college, you know what it cost back then? Nothing or next to nothing. At the most, you had to work at Dairy Queen during the summer and that would pay for your college education.

Michael Moore

WorkEducationAgeQueenCollege

I've always wanted to go into film scoring.

Deadmau5

GoAlwaysFilmScoringWanted

The more I read about the rules the great orators used, the more I realised, of course, this is how you stir people's hearts, and you persuade and cajole and move people out of fixed positions. The techniques are quite menacingly easy.

Anthony McCarten

GreatPeopleEasyYouRulesMore

Let me tell you who I am: I'm a girl from New Jersey who moved to New York and worked in a bar while trying to make a living at what I really wanted to do, which was act.

Piper Perabo

GirlI AmNew YorkMeTryingYou

When I was very young in London, I had a bank account, which didn't have a great deal in it. I should think at least every three months the bank manager would call me up and threaten to strangle me because I had no money, and I was writing checks.

Peter Mayle

GreatMoneyMeWritingThinkYoung

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