Thom Gunn Quotes

When I was an undergraduate I had very badly annotated editions of Shakespeare's sonnets, all of which left out the important fact that will has a sexual sense in Shakespeare's sonnets.

Thom Gunn

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: August 29, 1929 - April 25, 2004

Topics

ImportantWillOutLeftSenseFact

I have a business to run and stockholders to think about.

Jerry Yang

BusinessThinkRunAbout

One in four kids in the U.S. faces hunger.

Jeff Bridges

HungerFacesKidsFour

I saw Joseph Cornell's lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes.

Siri Hustvedt

WorkTimeArtLateMuseumFirst

I'm the youngest of four. I have two older sisters and an older brother and was raised by a single mother. Basically, my household was just full of life. Everything was lit all the time.

Little Simz

LifeMotherTimeBrotherEverything

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.

Anwar Sadat

HistorySolutionYouGiveOnlyArms

'Clybourne Park' was my first job after the birth of my son, who was 11 weeks old when we started rehearsals. And while that was truly harder than anything I've ever done, I was grateful every day to be going to work on such an incredible play, with such a generous, intelligent, supportive group of people.

Annie Parisse

WorkSonDayGratefulJobPeople

What's really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

Alice Walker

LiveCareSomeoneYouWantHard

Having now reached a point where danger might be reasonably apprehended from strolling war parties of Indians, spies were kept in advance and strict diligence observed in the duty of sentinels.

William Henry Ashley

WarDiligenceNowDutyPointDanger

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

William James

LifeWillGreatestSomethingOutlast

We almost always have choices, and the better the choice, the more we will be in control of our lives.

William Glasser

ControlChoicesBetterChoiceWill

Los Angeles for many years had operated with a police department that was far smaller than other police departments had in areas of comparable or larger size, New York and Chicago being the most obvious examples.

Scott Turow

PoliceNew YorkLos AngelesNewSize

Nobody will laugh long who deals much with opium: its pleasures even are of a grave and solemn complexion.

Thomas de Quincey

LaughLongNobodyWillComplexion

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