Paul Muldoon Quotes

Believe it or not, one of the first poets I was aware of was Yeats. I recited 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' at a verse speaking competition when I was eight or nine.

Paul Muldoon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

CompetitionBelieveLakeFirstAware

In a perfect world, you make a seamless transition from one great era to the next, but that rarely happens. I've studied these things: how do you go from the Aikman-Irvin-Smith Cowboys to the next era? I'm all for continuity. I wish we could have done it that way with Bill Polian, Jim Caldwell, Peyton.

Jim Irsay

GreatWorldWishYouPerfectDone

What is the biggest public forum in the United States? We were told it's the Super Bowl. The ad shows kids working at blue-collar jobs, and the final statement is just written text: Who's going to pay for the trillion dollar deficit?

Joan Blades

Super BowlPayDollarFinalGoing

We are all searching for some form of family or foundation - for a place we can feel safe and secure.

Jena Malone

FamilyFoundationFeelPlaceSafe

Everything I see and hear... I will take ideas from anyplace, anywhere, anytime, and life has become a song to me. I'm always looking for a song.

John Mellencamp

LifeMeIdeasSongLookingBecome

I think Maura'is funnier than I am, wittier than I am, more intelligent than I am, and I think she's just floating me at this point.

Jeffrey Tambor

I AmMeThinkIntelligentMoreShe

When I came out of Stanford, I looked at my brilliant classmates, who were going into Wall Street high finance, Silicon Valley, advanced engineering, and I said to myself, 'Jeff, go into an industry where nobody can add.'

Jeff Bewkes

MyselfFinanceEngineeringWallSaid

People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.

John Shirley

PeopleAliveMoreNakedNormalEven

I love producing shows. And so when you're on a show where other people are making decisions you don't necessarily agree with it, after a while you start to feel like a passenger.

Simon Cowell

LovePeopleStartDecisionsYou

You can look different but have the same values. That's not diversity; it's conformity.

Tucker Carlson

DiversityYouValuesLookConformity

It's so hard to be a mother and to also want to practice your art.

Rosanna Arquette

MotherArtPracticeWantHardYour

I see myself as a songwriter and a poet.

Julia Holter

MyselfSeeI SeePoetSongwriter

I wouldn't have been able to go to drama school when I was 19. I don't think I was even conscious of life... I was like a zombie. But when I finished uni' I just realised... just go and do it, stop being a knob.

Claire Foy

LifeSchoolThinkStopDramaGo

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