Norman MacCaig Quotes

And if they haven't got poetry in them, there's nothing you can do that will produce it.

Norman MacCaig

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PoetryYouNothingWillGotThem

I think 'Rheingold' has symbolic meaning of what happens in the world when you're running after the Rhine gold, after the gold. It doesn't end very well. It's kind of a reminder of the values of life, and I think 'The Ring,' in a way, is kind of a prediction of Wagner of what would happen in the world.

Andris Nelsons

LifeGoldWorldThinkEndMeaning

Every audience has its character; I like America - they love me. I suffer from stage fright, but in America not so much.

Andrea Bocelli

LoveCharacterMeAmericaLove Me

I recognized... very, very early on that ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News were dependent on The Associated Press and Reuters. So my daily intake of information is from watching the newswires.

Andrew Breitbart

DailyInformationEarlyNewsFox

We must learn to balance the material wonders of technology with the spiritual demands of our human race.

John Naisbitt

TechnologyBalanceSpiritualLearn

Uncertainty is a permanent part of the leadership landscape. It never goes away.

Andy Stanley

LeadershipUncertaintyLandscapeAway

I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Alamo. To me it represented the fight for freedom, not just in America, but in all countries.

John Wayne

FreedomHistoryFightMeStoryUp

It makes me very happy when I create goals or score goals myself, but the most important thing is that the team reaches its goal and plays positive football.

Mesut Ozil

PositiveGoalsMyselfFootballHappy

People are very interested in having access to wireless data while they are on a plane.

Steve Largent

PeopleDataWirelessInterestedVery

For a while, I dallied with the idea of the law - I didn't really know what it was, but I thought it sounded sensible. And as a child, I wanted to be a goalkeeper. Or a butcher.

Rory Kinnear

ChildLawThoughtKnowGoalkeeper

The system of mass incarceration depends almost entirely on the cooperation of those it seeks to control.

Michelle Alexander

ControlCooperationSystemAlmost

The Black Lives Matter movement can be read as an attempt to keep mourning an open dynamic in our culture because black lives exist in a state of precariousness. Mourning then bears both the vulnerability inherent in black lives and the instability regarding a future for those lives.

Claudia Rankine

FutureCultureBlackMatterMovement

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.

Bob Hope

DanceWaitingBathroomUpBrothers

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