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Margaret Atwood Quotes

Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems.

Margaret Atwood

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: canadian
Birth: November 18, 1939

Topics

Modern Lines Favor Middle Avoid

It's hard not to follow other careers of NFL quarterbacks in the 24/7 news-at-your-fingertips society we live in.

Andrew Luck

Live Society Follow Hard NFL Other

I'm not desperate anymore or feeling weird about myself because I'm not working in this business. I'm older and wiser, and there's a lot more to life.

Melanie Griffith

Life Business Myself Weird Feeling

Sometimes you do a sound installation, and the first day or two it is very exciting. Then you are hearing this every day for a month, and it becomes like a torture.

Jeffrey Deitch

Day You Every Day Sometimes First

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

John Webster

Wise Better Fortunate Than Tis

Perhaps the most telling witness against the claim of accurate history for the Bible comes when we read the earliest narrative of the crucifixion found in Mark's gospel and discover that it is not based on eyewitness testimony at all.

John Shelby Spong

History Bible Narrative Mark Against

If you don't have the time or desire to do whatever is being asked of you, say, 'no.' Even if you want to bake those cookies for your kid's fundraiser or take on a new freelancing gig, sometimes you just have to politely decline until you do have the extra time. The other party may be disappointed, but it's not the end of the world.

John Rampton

Time World End You Party Cookies

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Roger Babson

Success Failure Wise Mind Final Nor

I don't care if it's a dollar or two dollars. If I'm governor, people should have skin in the game.

Matt Bevin

People Game Care Skin Two Dollar

Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming.

Mike Crapo

Tax Maze Books Code Even Multiple

After I directed for the first time, I wanted to call every director I'd ever worked with and apologize. In television you are tasked with shooting 42 minutes, or whatever, in eight days. That's not a lot of time.

Michelle MacLaren

Time You Television First Time First

I think that women are afraid to be vulnerable because they think it makes them look weak.

Julia Michaels

Women Think Look Weak Afraid Makes

London is the clearing-house of the world.

Joseph Chamberlain

World London