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Wendy Cope Quotes

I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: July 21, 1945

Topics

Think You Said Say More Tell

I could have sexual chemistry with vinegar.

Chemistry Vinegar Sexual Could

I majored in history and political science at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, and I have always loved researching how a single human being can change the course of history.

Change Science History College Loved

If they are going to have war, they ought to take the old men and leave the young to propagate the race.

Jeannette Rankin

Men War Young Race Old Leave

I love when me and my friends don't know how to make something - there's that risk of failure, which should be there. If it's guaranteed not to fail, it's something you already know how to do.

Love Failure Me Friends You Know

It was just music all day... My neighbors were musicians, and my brother and my family and everybody... It was just a musical neighborhood. I think the neighborhood was such a good family type of vibe for me that I didn't even realize some of the people weren't my real family till later on in life.

Trombone Shorty

Life Family Good Music Day Brother

People like Prince or Madonna, they're kind of superhuman. You can't imagine them burning their toast, and there's something really exciting about that.

People You Kind Imagine Something

You don't just wake up one day and decide who you are. I hope that people see that it's okay not to have labels nor label anyone else. Step back. We're all just trying to figure it out.

Hope Day Step People Wake Up You

It's hard to make a movie that's very expensive and not be thinking of the results all the time.

Time Thinking Results Hard Expensive

What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.

Joseph Priestley

Respect Myself Others Admiration

Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy.

Technology Great Joy Society

I wouldn't have raced a horse. But you'll then throw back at me that Jesse Owens raced against a horse, and he's one of my heroes, so I'm not going to say it was a silly stunt. I know too much about horses. They're highly unreliable, and they've got brains the size of golf balls.

Me Golf Horse Silly You Back

I firmly believe that sleep and recovery are critical aspects of an effective and holistic training program.

Training Sleep Believe Recovery

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