Norman MacCaig Quotes

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

Norman MacCaig

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: scottish
  • Birth: November 14, 1910 - January 23, 1996

Topics

PoetryPeopleMeThinkDoingSeeing

Jim Harbaugh has done a great job of coaching in the NFL no matter how you put it.

John Madden

GreatJobCoachingYouDoneMatter

My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.

Robert Schumann

MusicI AmImpossibleFindDown

I think a lot of people are making music that shares their life experiences, and that's what I choose to do, too, but in my life experience, I also choose to try to find the hope in the music, and I think a lot of it has to do with my Christian faith.

Andy Mineo

LifeMusicFaithHopeExperience

I love the classroom.

Stephanie Herseth

LoveClassroomI Love

I learned the ins and outs of the supplements business as a bodybuilder. I'd worked with some of the companies, and I knew a lot about the products. Some of them worked OK, and some of them didn't. I wanted all of them to work, not just for me, but for other people, too.

Ronnie Coleman

WorkBusinessPeopleMeProductsOK

Good leaders need a positive agenda, not just an agenda of dealing with crisis.

Michael Porter

PositiveGoodCrisisNeedJust

If I have a look around at the moment I feel great relief because finally others are entering the limelight. Men like Robert Pattinson must now play the Adonis. For me it was always a restraint, a restriction.

Jude Law

GreatMomentMenMeFeelLook

It's not an if - we're going to have to change. Oil is simply going to be gone.

Dennis Weaver

ChangeOilGoneGoingSimply

You will find me standing up to my rack, as the people's faithful representative, and the public's most obedient, very humble servant.

Davy Crockett

HumblePeopleMeYouFindWill

The only piece of advice I've ever given anybody is learn to write songs and write as many songs as you can. Because it's never gonna hurt, and when you run into that problem of, 'God, I don't know what I want to say,' or the opposite problem of, 'I know exactly what I want to say, but no one has written it,' then you can just go write it yourself.

Chris Young

GodYourselfHurtAdviceLearnYou

Film is the only language I speak, and I have been lucky to be involved in some great stories. You don't want to preach to people, but you want them to think about why things are the way they are, the history that is there as well as the possibilities.

Clark Johnson

HistoryGreatPeopleSpeakThink

I was an 'Ironman' fan. It was in the '70s. I definitely liked comics and drew a lot of panels on my notebook when I should have been studying - probably why I ended up in the arts.

Clark Gregg

WhyStudyingUpArtsBeenFan

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