James Fenton Quotes

This is what rhyme does. In a couplet, the first rhyme is like a question to which the second rhyme is an answer. The first rhyme leaves something in the air, some unanswered business. In most quatrains, space is created between the rhyme that poses the question and the rhyme that gives the answer - it is like a pleasure deferred.

James Fenton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BusinessSpaceQuestionFirstAir

I love the show and a lot of what came out of it, like some of the people I met and got to work with, but those were truly some of the unhappiest days of my life.

Jhonen Vasquez

LifeWorkLovePeopleMy LifeOut

We've got to make sure that we have the workers of tomorrow.

Matt Mead

TomorrowWorkersGotSureMake

I turned down a movie this summer because it was nine weeks in Vancouver and my oldest daughter is 14. I've got four more summers with her. I'm not giving away nine weeks of her summer to go do a silly movie.

Jeff Foxworthy

DaughterGivingSillyDownSummer

Among all the marvels of modern invention, that with which I am most concerned is, of course, air transportation. Flying is perhaps the most dramatic of recent scientific attainment. In the brief span of thirty-odd years, the world has seen an inventor's dream first materialized by the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk become an everyday actuality.

Amelia Earhart

I AmWorldFlyingTransportationAir

If I hadn't become a photographer, I would have loved to become a doctor. I would have loved to have done something that actually helped people and changed their lives.

Mary Ellen Mark

PeopleDoctorLovedDoneBecome

Gabriel Gonzaga is a very solid fighter, and I've seen some of his fights. He's a tough guy.

Mirko Cro Cop

ToughFighterTough GuySeenGuyHe

I recognized that if you're going to have women in the workforce that sometimes you need to be more flexible.

Mitt Romney

WomenYouSometimesFlexibleNeed

When you meet someone, there's an initial reaction and then as you get to know them, things change, things deepen, or they go the other way.

Luke Hemsworth

ChangeSomeoneYouGoKnowMeet

The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.

Jay Leno

BeerPeopleWineWeekDownNeed

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

Josh Billings

GoodHopeAchieveJudgmentSteal

I begged my mom to let me start skating.

Debi Thomas

MeMomStartSkating

We haven't sat down with Scott and Caroline and said, Now you realize that there's X amount of pounds of thrust. And this can happen and that can happen.

Christa McAuliffe

YouDownSaidNowRealizeHappen

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