James Fenton Quotes

Poetry carries its history within it, and it is oral in origin. Its transmission was oral. Its transmission today is still in part oral, because we become acquainted with poetry through nursery rhymes, which we hear before we can read.

James Fenton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: April 25, 1949

Topics

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Whatever you think of Facebook, you cannot fault it for lack of ambition.

Joe Green

AmbitionThinkYouFaultWhatever

I assumed no one would ever listen to my music, and for quite a lot of years, I was right.

Max Richter

MusicListenRightYearsWouldEver

I suppose the book I really remember loving as a child was one called 'The Outsiders' by S.E. Hinton, about a gang of kids from the wrong side of the tracks in Sixties Oklahoma. I grew up in the Eighties in Nottinghamshire, but this tale of troubled, but essentially good, kids - or 'greasers' - was something I completely connected with.

Matt Haig

GoodChildBookRememberLoving

I truly believe that Yahoo! is one of the most compelling and dominant companies in the world.

Ross Levinsohn

WorldBelieveDominantMostYahoo

My wife gets pampered pretty well. She's had me trained since she was pregnant, when I started making her oatmeal with fresh berries every morning.

Michael Weatherly

MorningWifeMeSheFreshPretty

There are jerks all over Washington. Life is short; being a jerk is just unnecessary.

Mona Sutphen

LifeLife Is ShortShortWashington

When you're a kid, what you learn in school about being German has a sort of heaviness about it, and you have a sort of guilt with you.

Juergen Teller

SchoolLearnGuiltYouKidBeing

The Federal Reserve's objectives of maximum employment and price stability do not, by themselves, ensure a strong pace of economic growth or an improvement in living standards. The most important factor determining living standards is productivity growth, defined as increases in how much can be produced in an hour of work.

Janet Yellen

WorkGrowthImprovementStrongPrice

To have felt too much is to end in feeling nothing.

Dorothy Thompson

SadEndFeelingToo MuchNothing

I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.

Desmond Morris

ManAngelFellow ManApeFallen

If in doubt, don't. If still in doubt, do what's right.

Donald Rumsfeld

BrainyDoubtRightStill

It's very hard to tell somebody how to write when they're so good, and they're a brilliant writer and a really good guy.

Bonnie Hammer

GoodBrilliantWriteHardTellGuy

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