Helen Vendler Quotes

I always write after I think for quite a long time, so the actual writing time is rather short. I think a lot of the work gets done when you have something on your mind while you're doing many other things.

Helen Vendler

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: critic
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 30, 1933

Topics

WorkTimeMindWritingThinkShort

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

Maurice Greene

SportsFootballBaseballBasketball

Candidates don't want to be associated with poor people, people who have jobs or are ugly; they want to be associated with a certain middle class demographic, so as a result they leave those others out completely.

Matt Taibbi

UglyPeopleResultWantClassPoor

I don't think of us as defending ourselves. I think of us as a challenger, an attacker.

Ana Patricia Botin

ThinkChallengerUsI Think

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.

Stafford Cripps

WalkGovernmentPeopleChaosIndia

Never did I ever think I would be competing on a snowboard out here in X Games.

Mike Schultz

ThinkGamesNeverOutCompetingDid

I try to make music with emotion and integrity. And authenticity. You can feel when something's authentic, and you can feel when it's not: you know when someone's trying to make the club record, or trying to make the girl record, or trying to make the thug record. It's none of that. It's just my emotions.

Jay-Z

IntegrityMusicGirlSomeoneYou

We need open, competitive, market economies... but at the same time with effective regulation and supervision.

Jose Manuel Barroso

TimeNeedSameOpenCompetitive

Well, I'm not that popular with the politicians, I have to say.

Jose Padilha

SayPoliticiansWellPopular

I think 'The Handmaid's Tale' always had that power since it was written over 30 years ago. This extraordinary piece of feminist literature had its fan base then, but TV has given it an enormous reach.

Joseph Fiennes

PowerThinkReachLiteratureOver

I think there are going to be more countries joining the euro.

Jose Angel Gurria

ThinkMoreGoingI ThinkEuro

There's no real road map to L.A. Everyone's journey is different. You have to persevere and be willing to put everything in it. You have to stick it out. I don't really have a safety net, but what I do is put myself in the best possible position to succeed by working hard. Also, be careful who you let into your life.

Christopher Egan

LifeJourneyMyselfBestSafetyYou

Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unionized correctional officers, almost all unskilled labor, constantly lead public demands for more criminal statutes and more draconian penalties.

Conrad Black

PrisonLaborMoreActiveLead

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