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Elizabeth Bishop Quotes

What childishness is it that while there's breath of life in our bodies, we are determined to rush to see the sun the other way around?

Elizabeth Bishop

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: February 8, 1911 - October 6, 1979

Topics

Life Sun Way Breath See Determined

The Beatles created something that never trailed off. What a gift that was to their fans. If you're into the Beatles, you loved them from beginning to end.

Beginning Gift End Loved You Never

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.

Responsibility Death Think Someone

Comedy, I'm still in awe of. I think you need a comic genius somewhere in the mix. It's got to be the actor or someone. But the 'comic genius' actors are the darkest people on the planet - and that kind of scares me!

People Me Think Genius Comedy You

Something's very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

Robert Kiyosaki

Children Money War Care Take Care

The bottom line - customers want delicious food served quickly in an interactive format, and they are increasingly unwilling to compromise.

Food Compromise Want Line Bottom

New media and mobile entertainment are revolutionizing the way people learn about the world.

People World Learn Media New Way

I believe that in order to sustain a governing majority, the Democratic Party has got to learn that it can govern without raising taxes.

Believe Learn Party I Believe Taxes

Later, I became the manager for Amelia Earhart, until, well, you know.

Joseph Force Crater

You Know Manager Well Later Until

I don't generally follow sports. At an early age, I discovered that nature had apportioned me only a small reserve of enthusiasm. Best to ration.

Colson Whitehead

Nature Age Sports Best Me Small

As any of us approaches middle age, we inevitably come up against our limitations: the realization that certain dearly-held fantasies may not be realized; that circumstances have thwarted us; that even with intention and will we may not be able to set our ship back on the course we'd planned.

Age Ship Back Intention Will Middle

One of my all-time favourite guitarists is, in fact, a bassist - John Entwistle from The Who. He's one of my all-time favourites, the way he kind of expanded. I mean, he could have been a lead guitarist and been one of the best guitarists in the world. He wasn't even bass player; he was a bass guitarist, and he took the bass to another level.

Bradley Wiggins

Best World Kind Way Mean Lead

I love being in the world of the unknown.

Love World Unknown Being I Love

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