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Al Purdy Quotes

Things were so bad we ate rabbits that neighbours had run over and gave to us because they knew we were broke.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: canadian
Birth: December 30, 1918 - April 21, 2000

Topics

Bad Run Over Things Rabbits Us

The big curse of America, to me, is skinless, boneless chicken breasts. They're banal and relatively flavorless. The rest of the world's trying to get some fat to eat, and we're trying to ban it from our diet.

Me World Rest Fat Diet America

Well folks, that's about it for the show tonight.

Well Show Tonight About Folks

When I composed, I heard my music played by the orchestra within days of completion of the score. No master at a conservatory, no matter how revered, can teach as much by verbal criticism as can a cold and analytical hearing of one's own music being played.

Music Cold Criticism Teach Matter

The only way to make sure no bank is too big to fail is to make sure no bank is too big.

Way Bank Fail Big Sure Only

I get my best ideas in that state of suspended consciousness just before sleep.

Michael Bastian

Best Sleep Ideas Consciousness Get

Seriously, we are in the midst of the convergence of voice and data and that is challenging the infrastructure of the telephone companies. There are huge commercial interests in the basic technology, but even more so in content delivery and control of content.

Technology Control Voice Data More

What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing to look difficult. What was difficult, in my opinion, was making it look so genuine, so effortless. I equally have tried to remain unseen on the screen.

Opinion Doing Look Want Genuine Got

My brain goes in just one direction. The Future. I don't worry about the present. By the time you talk about the present, it's gone.

Stefano Pessina

Future Time Brain Direction Present

I remember when I was in Los Angeles, and there was one of the very big earthquakes, and it was just absolute pandemonium. I mean the streets were just - people were crashing into each other, people were looting, in just a very short amount of time.

Time People Short Remember Mean Big

I think I always prefer the long jump, high jump, and javelin. I don't like the 400 metres and the pole vault except when I'm really in shape.

Think Long Jump Always High Shape

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.

Mary Wortley Montagu

Great Hate Blessings Look Fools

Both of us played basketball, and I played tennis and my knees are done. Now if you ask us head-to-head who wins at golf, I'm asking for a couple of strokes.

Basketball Golf You Done Now Tennis

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