James Merrill Quotes

Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.

James Merrill

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 3, 1926 - February 6, 1995

Topics

WordsLanguageYouFindKnowing

It's obvious that St. Louis has certain advantages compared to other cities: namely, a concentration of financial services.

Jim McKelvey

FinancialConcentrationSt. Louis

I don't have anybody telling me what to do.

John Mayer

MeTellingAnybody

I'm not sure I'd go back and do anything over in my life. I've definitely had my fair share of failures and moments where I wasted my time or that of other people, but if I did those moments over, I'd have missed out on so many lessons.

Trip Adler

LifeTimePeopleMy LifeMomentsGo

I think, in a career, you have several breaks that lead to a big break. Small things here and there all add up to cracking away at the dam. Then the dam breaks.

Mike Colter

Small ThingsSmallThinkYouCareer

I'm all in favor of people - myself included - going into the same territory if there's something that can be done with it. But if somebody says, 'Make a sequel to 'Heathers',' I feel like, no, someone should make a good movie that's a dark, satirical comedy that has that sensibility.

Michael Lehmann

GoodMyselfPeopleComedySomeone

My brother Leon started it all. He played the piano. In school they made me leader of the orchestra because I played the violin, but I followed Leon and the boys in his jazz band around.

Louis Prima

LeaderSchoolBrotherMeJazzBand

It's so cool for me to do what I love to do for a living and meet people from all over the world.

Josh Turner

LovePeopleMeCoolWorldLiving

I would love to do a comedy, but comedy probably in the sense of a dark comedy like 'Californication,' that sort of thing. Yeah, sure, I think I'm funny.

Jason Wiles

FunnyLoveThinkComedyDarkSure

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

William Safire

LiveMindOwnDummyAccusedHaving

I'm as much a victim of the romantic myth of 'getting away' as anyone else. My head tells me it's myth, but I don't want to believe it is.

Sydney Pollack

RomanticMeBelieveWantHeadMyth

The secret at the heart of 'The Memory Keeper's Daughter' is something everybody, except for some of the characters, knows in Chapter 1. Some of the narrative tension comes from that distance between what the readers know and what the characters know.

Kim Edwards

DaughterHeartMemoryKnowChapter

I was very afraid of failure because if you fail at something you love, then you ruin what you love.

Kimbal Musk

LoveFailureWhat You LoveYouFail

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