David Antin Quotes

Children frequently sing meaningful phrases to themselves over and over again before they learn to make a distinction between singing and saying.

David Antin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 1, 1932

Topics

ChildrenSingingSayingLearnOver

I wanted to sail when I was in grammar school and well remember memorizing the names of the sails from the Merriam-Webster's ponderous dictionary in the library. Now I am actually at sea - as a passenger, of course, but at sea nevertheless - and bound for Ecuador.

Jim Elliot

SeaSchoolI AmSailLibrarySails

You can only really get to any truth by telling peoples' stories.

John Tiffany

TruthYouGetOnlyTellingStories

The problem with Russia is not corruption per se, or even Putin per se. Russian government is not corrupt because Vladimir Putin has absolute power. Russian government has been corrupt and will always be as long as anyone has absolute power.

Robert Zubrin

PowerGovernmentCorruptionProblem

I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.

Michael Weatherly

MusicAgeWaterPastSchoolTeam

What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.

Mignon McLaughlin

YouOutGetWholeheartedly

I love playing roles where it's not just the good guy or the bad guy.

Joshua Henry

LoveGoodBadBad GuyPlayingGuy

I've sold everything from fashion, make-up, couture magazines, radio, reality television, movies. There isn't a thing I haven't sold, including Tampax. You name it.

Janice Dickinson

FashionRealityNameYouTelevision

Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we decorate our homes with animal prints and motifs, give our children stuffed animals to clutch, cartoon animals to watch, animal stories to read.

Diane Ackerman

ChildrenWallsAnimalWoodCave

I had to work out that it was something that could move, without having everybody in spray painted leotards.

Colleen Atwood

WorkWithoutOutSomethingMove

The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.

Antoine Rivarol

LosingPeopleWorryWealthOnly

Being a parent of a boy who wants to wear sparkles and grow his hair long - especially when you don't know where it's all going to go - it's hard stuff. I'm not being politically incorrect in acknowledging that, am I?

Alice Dreger

HairParentGrowLongYouKnow

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

Philip Warren Anderson

SimpleStartUniverseEverything

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