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Paul Muldoon Quotes

The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.

Paul Muldoon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: June 20, 1951

Topics

You Sometimes Ground Up Going Well

I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't.

Joaquin Phoenix

Try Along Sing Would Like Bands

Sometimes, though only in my most unguarded moments, I can still think of Annette Winters as my first love. At fifteen, she was tall, slender, very dark: an intelligent, sly girl possessed of what I think of now, though I didn't think of then, as a kind of debatable beauty.

John Burnside

Love Beauty Girl Think Moments Dark

Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before.

Andrew O'Hagan

Writing World You Serious Plumbing

I grew up in the city of Detroit, where things were just bad.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

City Bad Detroit Up Things Where

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.

Tom Clancy

Loss Say Right Out Gain Vietnam

When we pray to Buddha, we are not praying to a piece of stone, an image of Buddha, but we pray to the soul of Buddha behind the piece of stone. The souls of the people who are dead now are still with us.

Rithy Panh

Soul People Stone Now Dead Image

Fashion and beauty is a reflection of what's on the inside. And if you're genuine, they match up. The core of who you are will be the same.

Michelle Carter

Beauty Reflection Fashion You Will

I believe in my kids 100 percent. When you have confidence in them, they have confidence in themselves.

Michael Strahan

Confidence Believe You I Believe

Greed has taken the whole universe, and nobody is worried about their soul.

Little Richard

Soul Greed Universe Nobody Whole

What I am saying every day to Malawians is that time has come for us to move from aid to trade. We have picked several sectors that we think we can focus on immediately in order for us to grow our economy. So we have decided to diversify agriculture, we decided to develop our tourism sector, we have decided to develop our mining sector.

Joyce Banda

Time Focus Day I Am Saying Think

There are people that have that confidence, who march into VIP areas. I assume I won't get in. I don't say, 'Do you know who I am?', but sometimes I'm with someone who says it for you. Then, I pretend to be all, 'Oh, please don't shame me!'.

Chris Lowe

Confidence I Am People Me Someone

Vast areas are witness to the struggles of destitute populations trying to survive under unlivable conditions.

Christian de Duve

Survive Trying Struggles Witness